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Brief Interviews from the Plenary: Barbara Namugayi and Martina Darragh
Barbara Namugayi and Martina Darragh spoke with us at the October 2011 Plenary Meeting about the ways the DPLA may complement the open access movement and IT community.
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Notes from the October 2011 Workstream Meetings
Notes from the October 2011 DPLA workstream meetings are now available on the DPLA wiki.
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Brief Interviews from the DPLA Plenary: Todd Carpenter
Todd Carpenter, Managing Director of the National Information Standards Organization, provides his impression of the October 2011 Plenary Meeting.
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Press: “DPLA – The Most Important Cultural Advancement Since the Internet?”
“The vision of the DPLA connecting citizens to and through electronic materials could revolutionize the social structures of education.”
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Press: “DPLA”
“We, along with many of our members, have been, and continue to be, supporters of the idea for a truly publically available digitized national library. The DPLA is on the way to making this vision a reality.”
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Brief Interviews from the DPLA Plenary: Sally Sinn
Sally Sinn of the National Library of Medicine gives her perspective on the DPLA’s next steps, as well as its great potential.
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Brief Interviews from the DPLA Plenary: Zachary Coble
Zachary Coble, the systems and emerging technologies librarian at Gettysburg College, gives a brief summary of his perspective on the DPLA’s progress and future.
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Press: “A Digital Public Library for America?”
Read an excerpt from Matthew Boylan’s post on the New York Public Library blog.
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Digital Library Digest: November 4, 2011
A round-up of Digital Library News from the past week
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Press: “Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)”
“In a session on the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), Robert Darnton, Director of the Harvard University Library, likened the concept to Thomas Jefferson’s observation that often the use of something does not diminish its value.”
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