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DPLA Interviews Gary Price
An interview with information professional Gary Price.
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October 2011 Plenary: Opening Remarks
Watch the opening remarks from the DPLA’s October 2011 Plenary Meeting in Washington, DC.
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Digital Library Digest: December 9, 2011
This week’s digital library digest features the new Library News website, Library Boing Boing, PLA’s open call for essays on ebooks, an interview with Jill Cousins, and a literature review on questions of digital preservation.
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Press: “Renting out the library”
In this PWxyz post, Peter Brantley discusses ways in which public libraries may be able to devise a model for sustainable e-book lending.
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Press: “Europeana: culture online”
“But it now seems the Americans are following suit with an announcement in October that Harvard University will coordinate efforts to establish an American equivalent of Europeana, to be called the Digital Public Library of America…”
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DPLA Research Opportunity
The DPLA seeks a part-time research assistant for the spring. This position would be a great opportunity for college or graduate students.
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Press: “At close of day: the library alternative”
“Whether at the level of DPLA or at more modest community focused libraries, there’s broad recognition that scale empowers rich services, and that greater content aggregation compels use.”
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Digital Library Digest: December 2, 2011
This week’s Digital Library Digest rounds up stories about the Library of Congress blog, Europeana’s new metadata whitepaper, online curation, article rental, Canadian library’s emedia, and an interview with Maura Marx.
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John Palfrey Presents at the Los Angeles Public Library Conference
John Palfrey’s keynote presentation at the Los Angeles Public Library’s conference on building a national digital public library.
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Press: “The Digital Public Library of America” on the Kojo Nnamdi Show
Maura Marx, Martin Kalfatovic, and Maria Pallante, the United States Register of Copyright, were on the WAMU’s Kojo Nmandi Show to talk about a range of topics related to the DPLA earlier this week.
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