The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) announced today that it has received a $990,195 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to build upon its network of library professionals and organizations to pilot a national-scale training system for public librarians.

The Digital Public Library of America announced the addition of three new Service Hubs today at a reception celebrating the April 2013 launch of the DPLA and the start of DPLAfest, a two-day series of events free and open to the public taking place in Boston on October 24-25, 2013.

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).

The University of Southern California Libraries have become the first library in California to partner with the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) as a content hub.

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.

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.

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.

The DPLA is pleased to announce it is partnering with the David Rumsey Map Collection to provide online access to tens of thousands of significant historical maps and imagines.

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.

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.