“The Digital Public Library of America, an initiative spearheaded by Harvard faculty members, is making fast progress toward developing a fully operational online database of existing digitized works by April 2013.
“An international leader in the effort to organize digital copies of printed volumes, represents of the DPLA traveled to Washington, D.C. last week, where they accepted another significant donation from two separate foundations and established relationships with other organizations sharing a common mission.
“To support DPLA’s transitional operations, the Sloan Foundation and the Arcadia Fund each donated $2.5 million to the project.
“The combined $5 million will cover costs as DPLA attempts to bring together already digitized works that are not yet aggregated in one location.”
From Gautam S. Kumar and Julia L. Ryan’s article in the Harvard Crimson, Digital Library Nearly Online