Press: “Donation will boost Harvard’s digital library project”
“The push by Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society to create a large-scale digital library got a $5 million boost on Oct. 21.”
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Press: “A National Digital Public Library Begins to Take Shape”
“The Digital Public Library of America doesn’t exist yet, but it’s closer to becoming a reality.”
Press: “A ‘national digital library'”
“Last Thursday and Friday, a group of librarians, scholars, industry leaders, and educators came together for the first plenary meeting to begin serious plans for a ‘Digital Public Library of America.”
Press: “Digital Library Nearly Online”
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.
Press: “Getting Real About the Digital Public Library of America”
Although the project is still financially, logistically, and technologically in the conceptual and planning phase, it has certainly generated plenty of enthusiasm.
Press: “Digital Public Library of America”
David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States, gives his take on the October 2011 Plenary Meeting in Washington DC.
Press: “The Other Digital Divide – ‘Bringing the Local Community Out'”
Melissa Mannon discusses the “digital divide” and evaluates where the DPLA may factor in.
Press: “US digital library in works “
Hiawatha Bray of the Boston Globe reports on the DPLA.
Press: “First thoughts after the DPLA launch and workstream meetings”
Nate Hill responds to his work with the Audience & Participation workstream at the DPLA conference.
Press: “The DPLA Muster”
John Palfrey and a cabal of Harvard academics have forged a movement from the fire of frustrated librarians, archivists, and information professionals who have recognized that a lot of the present system is broken and going nowhere fast.
