Category: Blog
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Digitizing Georgia’s cultural heritage
The following is part of a series that looks at The Digital Public Library of America – the first national effort to aggregate existing records in state and regional digital libraries so that they are searchable from a single portal. The following is a look at one of the six state digital libraries that will…
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Records Held Hostage: Bringing the National Archives to the Public
Many of the records in the National Archives are “held hostage by their format.” Facilitating wider public access might mean something more than digitization: engagement.
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Accessing Art, Up Close and Online
The Public Art Archive seeks to catalog public art throughout the US, and to provide art enthusiasts with a data-rich, comprehensive source to locate and learn about works of public art.
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Meet the Hubs!: Digital Library of Georgia
The newest post in a series introducing the DPLA’s service hubs looks at the Georgia Digital Library, and explores some of the hidden treasures — from historic postcards to oral histories — found in its collections.
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Meet the Hubs!: Kentucky Digital Library
The newest post in a series introducing the DPLA’s service hubs looks at the Kentucky Digital Library, and explores some of the hidden treasures found in its collections.
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DPLA at Code4Lib 2013
The DPLA was in Chicago earlier this week for Code4Lib 2013, a large annual conference of library technologists.
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New Orphan Works Research from Berkeley Law
In this guest post, Dave Hansen describes the Berkley Digital Library Copyright Project’s recent white paper.
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Meet the Hubs!: Mountain West Digital Library
The fourth post in a series introducing the DPLA’s service hubs looks at the Mountain West Digital Library, and explores some of the hidden treasures found in its collections, from the sounds of the West to historic cookbooks.
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Meet the Hubs!: South Carolina Digital Library
The third post in a series introducing the DPLA’s service hubs looks at the South Carolina Digital Library, and explores some of the hidden treasures found in its collections, from Civil War propaganda to photos of historic buildings.
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What do you read at a bookless library?
Bexar County, Texas will soon be home to BiblioTech, the nation’s first bookless public library. The proposed tech-centered space will allow users to access computers, e-books, tablets, and more. Is that what library visitors want?