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 act as a service hub for the project. It is written by Annie Schutte, a librarian, teacher and consultant for Knight Foundation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The DPLA was in Chicago earlier this week for Code4Lib 2013, a large annual conference of library technologists.
In this guest post, Dave Hansen describes the Berkley Digital Library Copyright Project’s recent white paper.
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.
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.
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?
