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Digital Library Digest: March 31, 2012
This week’s DigLibDig covers an increase in physical library demand for digital services, a Syracuse School of Information Studies article on the DPLA, and the Houghton Rare Book Library’s new digitized materials.
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Press: “Digital Public Library of America: The Biggest Library The World Has Ever Seen?”
An article in Spring 2012 “JISC Inform” on the Digital Public Library of America, featuring an interview with Robert Darnton.
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Press: “Computers in Libraries 2012: Susan Hildreth”
Susan Hildreth, IMLS Director and Steering Committee member, mentioned the DPLA in a discussion with Jaap van de Geer at Computers in Libraries 2012 in Washington, D.C.
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Press: “The Digital Public Library of America: Why Library and Information Students Should Care”
“It is incredible to think of the potential impact in making the collective knowledge and research of major universities libraries and the digitized cultural collections of public libraries, universally accessible to all American citizens online…”
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Press: “Doing It for Themselves: Libraries and E-books”
“The merits of greater aggregation help motivate the interest in the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) serving as a national platform provider for ebooks…”
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First steps in DPLA-Europeana virtual exhibition
The DPLA and Europeana team up for a joint virtual exhibition on the migration of Europeans to and from the United States.
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Digital Library Digest: March 24, 2012
This week’s DigLibDig covers Europeana-Pinterest collaboration, streamlining of the Elending process, a British Library’s digitization project, and the ‘life and miracles’ of Rumi.
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What We Can Learn from DIY Libraries
DPLA research assistant Alessandra Morgan weighs in on the lessons DIY libraries hold for the DPLA.
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Press: “Exquisite Informational Immersion: Fusing the Visions of Readers’ Advisory and Technologist Librarians | PLA 2012”
“”In the absence of what Palfrey termed ‘mothers or fathers’ and in an attempt to define ‘what the It [of the DPLA] should be,’ he talked about its basic components: code (‘open source, free for all’), metadata, content, and tools and services.”
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Orphan Works: Mapping the Possible Solution Spaces
A new paper from the Berkeley Digital Copyright Project examines prominent approaches to the orphan works problem.
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