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Press: Podcast, Robert Darnton and Susan Flannery: “Digitizing the Culture of Print: The Digital Public Library of America and Other Urgent Projects”
“The role of the library in the digital age is one of the compelling questions of our era. How are libraries coping with the promise and perils of our impending digital future? What urgent initiatives are underway to assure universal access to our print inheritance and to the digital communication forms of the future? How…
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Press: DPLA Midwest Coverage Highlights
PARTICIPATORY WORKSHOPS BRING FOCUS TO THREE ASPECTS OF THE PROJECT “The first day of meetings were participatory workshops where a wide group of interested parties moved between three topic areas: Content Infrastructure and the Digital Hubs Pilot Program, Technical Development, and The Future of the DPLA. These sessions provided important feedback to the DPLA leadership…
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Press: DPLA: Looking Forward, Interview with Emily Gore
“Shortly after the DPLA Midwest Plenary in October,* DPLA Director for Content Emily Gore spoke with CLIR Issues about the DPLA, its April 2013 launch, and what’s next. “How do DPLA efforts build on past digital library work? “The whole idea of the DPLA is to take advantage of existing infrastructure to expose content that is already…
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Harvard to Contribute Special Collections Materials to Digital Public Library of America
The Harvard Library plans to share several collections with the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), becoming the first DPLA content hub.
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Digital Library Digest: October 30, 2012
Empowering library staff while ensuring the integrity of systems through coding education “Should librarians be learning to how to develop software? This theme has come up in the past few years1 and I think it is a good thing. I once had a boss that told his group “I want you guys to automate yourself out…
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Digital Public Library of America Partners with iFactory on Development of Prototype DPLA Website
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) will be partnering with Boston, MA-based interactive agency iFactory to design and develop a prototype front end portal, the companies announced today.
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Digital Library Digest: October 23, 2012
This week’s digest discusses the success of the Hathi Trust case, MIT’s Open Access Articles Collection international benefits, a creative way a digital archiving project is calling out to traditional exceptions of archives in its user interface, the Met’s catalog digitization, and some international presentations on how libraries can help the homeless access information.
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October 2012 DPLA Update from John Palfrey
Watch the October 2012 DPLA update from John Palfrey, DPLA Board of Directors, recorded at the October 12, 2012 DPLA Midwest Plenary in Chicago, IL.
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[DPLA Midwest] Photos from DPLA Midwest
Photos from DPLA Midwest, held on October 11-12, 2012 at the Chicago Public Library
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Making local history digital, searchable and accessible
A guest post from Jorge A. Martinez, director/IT at the Knight Foundation on Knight’s recent $1 million award to the DPLA for its Digital Hubs Pilot Project.
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