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1.7 million titles from HathiTrust now live on DPLA homepage

We’re excited to share that 1.7 million metadata records associated with almost 3.5 million of HathiTrust’s freely available books, journals, government documents, and more are now accessible on dp.la and through the DPLA application programming interface (API).

September 3, 2013

American History at Your Fingertips

The University of Minnesota Library, which houses the Minnesota Digital Library, one of the DPLA’s six service hubs, recently released a fabulous video detailing their involvement in the DPLA.

July 10, 2013

HathiTrust to partner with DPLA

The HathiTrust Digital Library will partner with the recently launched Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) to expand discovery and use of HathiTrust’s public domain and other openly available content.

June 18, 2013

Digital Library Digest: May 2, 2013

This week’s digest spotlights a discussion among architects and librarians about the role of libraries in a digital world, a Pew Research Center report on the relationship among parents, children, libraries, and reading, the digitization of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s handwritten ledger, Purdue University’s newly launched Data Curation Profiles Directory, and a video of Robert Darnton and John Palfrey discussing copyright laws and libraries at Harvard Law School.

May 2, 2013

Digital Library Digest: April 25, 2013

This week’s digest covers the new U.S. National Archives website called “The Digital Vaults,” a speech from the House Judiciary Committee concerning a review of the U.S. copyright law, Simon & Schuster’s library ebook pilot, the Library of Congress’s special Grammy Award, and New York City’s protests against the sale of libraries.

April 25, 2013

A Proud Day for the DPLA

Doron Weber, Vice President, Programs at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and member of the DPLA Advisory Committee, penned a guest post celebrating the DPLA launch.

April 18, 2013