Press: “Thursday Sessions: Romance, Reference, Funding and Federal Digitization”
“My day’s third session [at the 2012 PLA Conference] was a presentation from the leadership team at the Digital Public Library of America.”
“My day’s third session [at the 2012 PLA Conference] was a presentation from the leadership team at the Digital Public Library of America.”
Watch Robert Darnton deliver a speech entitled “The Digital Public Library of America and the Digital Future” at the Donoho Colloquium at Dartmouth College.
Luis Herrera, City Librarian of the San Francisco Public Library and Steering Committee member, was recently nominated by President Obama to become a member of the National Museum and Library Services Board.
“Darnton’s inspiration is familiar to most academic librarians: publisher greed has turned the public good of knowledge into a private commodity…”
“For several years, Martin Gomez has been actively promoting the Digital Public Library of America – a campaign to digitize inventories of cultural and scientific records and make them available to everyone, online – in effect, creating the public library of the future…”
“Darnton spoke with Dartmouth Now about the DPLA project after his lecture, which was also the inaugural Donoho Colloquium, sponsored by The Neukom Institute for Computational Science and the Friends of the Dartmouth College Library.”
Robert Darnton spoke in Dartmouth’s Filene Auditorium in Monday’s inaugural Donoho Colloquium titled “The Digital Public Library of America and the Digital Future.”
“The original vision for librarylab.org was connected to the Digital Public Library of America beta sprint; it was to be a networked physical architecture acting as a gateway for contribution to a national digital library.”
Robert Darnton, Harvard University Librarian and Professor of History, received a 2011 National Humanities Medal for his work with the DPLA.
“I was a guest at a recent DPLA ‘Audience and Participation Work Stream’ meeting that brought together participants with a variety of perspectives and experience, but joined by a deep concern for the future of libraries…”