The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is pleased to announce the addition of two brand-new exhibitions on the subjects of Depression-era American theater and the 19th-century US gold rush to its growing collection of curated virtual exhibitions (dp.la/exhibitions).

The DPLA Board of Directors as well as its Governance Committee will each hold a conference call on Monday, March 10 at 3:00 PM Eastern and Wednesday, March 12 at 2:00 PM Eastern, respectively. The call is open to the public.

A guest post from Lisa Gregory, Digital Projects Librarian, North Carolina Digital Heritage Center, exploring untitled archival images.

The DPLA Board of Directors held a conference call on Friday, February 14 at 3:00 PM Eastern. The call was open to the public.

This is a reminder that our next open committee call will take place on Wednesday, February 5 at 2:00 PM Eastern. The Content Strategy Committee will lead a discussion on the possibilities, priorities, and opportunities of establishing a multimedia Content or Service Hub.

On January 22, 2014 Tiltfactor Laboratory launched Metadata Games: Mobile, a digital game platform for gathering useful data on image, audio, and moving image artifacts. Metadata Games seeks to increase access to humanities content while contributing to vital records, and further enables archivists, librarians, data scientists and a slew of other people to gather and analyze information for archives in powerful and innovative ways.

Read DPLA-related press from December 15, 2013 to January 15, 2014

We’re extremely excited to announce that Mark Breedlove has joined the DPLA team as Technical Specialist, a key piece of our growing in-house technical team.

The DPLA Board of Directors held a conference call on Tuesday, January 14 at 1:00 PM Eastern. The call was open to the public.

Interested in building with the DPLA API? Then come to LibHack! LibHack, taking place on January 24, 2014, is a library hackathon that will work with the DPLA and OCLC APIs.

DPLA staff was pleased to hear that the Cultural Center of Novi Sad, located in Novi Sad, Serbia, recently launched a gorgeous new digital heritage platform using DPLA’s open source technology.

The Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO), which administers the Empire State Digital Network (ESDN), the DPLA Service Hub in New York, is seeking an experienced manager to coordinate and manage its hub-related activities.

Read DPLA-related press from November 15 to December 15, 2013.

The DPLA Board of Directors held a conference call on Monday, December 16 at 4:00 PM Eastern. The call was open to the public.

On December 9, the DPLA was featured in the Technology section of the Chronicle of Higher Education. The article — “Digital Public Library of America: Young but Well Connected” by Jennifer Howard — provides an excellent insight into our Digital Hubs program and its positive effect on local institutions.

This is a reminder that our next open committee call will take place on Wednesday, December 4 at 2:00 PM Eastern. Topics related to the Technical Advisory committee will serve as the subject of this call.

We’re super excited to share that we’re seeking two Technology Specialists to work with Mark on the DPLA’s technical development. These two new staff members will join our growing team and will work to further DPLA’s mission to bring together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and make them freely available to all.

A guest post from Jenny Dale, Coordinator of First-Year Programs, University Libraries, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Dale used the DPLA to great success during the process of supporting an English 101 assignment at her library.

The Digital Public Library of America (dp.la) is thrilled to announce the appointment of Mark A. Matienzo as the DPLA’s first Director of Technology, beginning December 6, 2013.

Read DPLA-related press from November 1-15, 2013.