“The Digital Public Library of America doesn’t exist yet, but it’s closer to becoming a reality.
“At an energized meeting held here at the National Archives on Friday, representatives from top cultural institutions and public and research libraries expressed robust support for the proposed library, which would create a portal to allow the public to get easy online access to collections held at many different institutions.”
From Jennifer Howard’s article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, A National Digital Public Library Begins to Take Shape