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Press: “Update on the Digital Public Library of America”
“The dream of a national digital public library is inching closer to the planning stage. The Berkman Center at Harvard University convened a large and diverse group of stakeholders to define the scope, architecture, costs, and administration for a proposed Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).”
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Press: “The $50 e-book-capable tablet: When will the Harvard-hosted DPLA and friends care about hardware-related digital divide issues?”
“The right gizmos could help bring library e-books and other media to America’s poor and our cash-strapped middle class.”
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DPLA Listserv Recap: June 10, 2011
The DPLA name/forking debate, a discussion of user services, and crowdsourcing ideas for the Beta Sprint.
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Press: “On behalf of the Merely Curious”
From Sandy Thatcher: “I’m terribly interested to see what will come out of the DPLA’s beta sprint and I was heartened by Char Booth’s excellent interview about the Hathi Trust.”
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Press: “Why the DPLA should avoid confusing the missions of public and academic libraries: Thoughts from an academic publishing veteran”
From Sandy Thatcher: “Just two quick observations on the continuing debate by David Rothman et al. about whether and how the Digital Public Library of America should serve the interests of both academic and public libraries, and how their roles in serving their patrons differ.”
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Press: “Who needs ‘social worker’ librarians? Just ‘type into the search box’? Something for the DPLA to consider June 13 in the P controversy?”
From David Rothman: “Americans urgently need home access to a wealth of e-books, databases and other goodies since many people cannot conveniently visit neighborhood libraries in person, and I love the idea of a national reference service available by phone and the Web, but let’s not do away with the warm, fuzzy, in-person kind of…
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Press: “NEH Supports DPLA Technical Workshop”
“The Open Knowledge Commons (OKC) has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the first meeting of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Technical Workstream, which will explore and make recommendations around a proposed technical architecture for the DPLA.”
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Digital Library Digest: June 10, 2011
Sharing metadata, mind mapping user-data interaction, a new publication from the American Library Association’s Office for Information Technology Policy, and more.
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Press: “UNESCO Focus 2011: South Africa Pubs Still Begrudge E-books; In US, Digital Caters to the Public Interest”
“There has been some discussion of how an ECL might be structured to benefit e.g. the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), but given the absence of precedent in the USA for this form of voluntary rights association (VRA), achieving a solution equitable for all parties faces many hurdles.”
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Press: “DPLA now considering separate academic and public library systems, and meanwhile the first Beta Sprint deadline is nearing—June 15”
From David Rothman: “I badly want the DPLA to succeed, but its people need to cut out the library-unity rhetoric and work toward intertwined but separate public and academic systems.”
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