In a workshop led by members of the DPLA Legal Committee, which includes Jason Schultz (NYU Law) and David Hansen (Berkeley Law & UNC Law), and in conjunction with Argyri Panezi (European Univ. Institute) and Meredith Jacob (American Univ., Washington College of Law), a full room of DPLA Fest 2013 workshop participants explored the broad range of copyright issues that affect the online availability of library collections.

The DPLA Board of Directors held a conference call on Monday, November 18 at 4:00 PM Eastern. The call was open to the public.

We’re pleased to announce that the DPLA has been selected from hundreds of global nominations and chosen for the inaugural Nominet Trust 100.

Read DPLA press from October 1 – 18, 2013.

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.

At its DPLAfest–taking place on October 24-25 in Boston—the Digital Public Library of America introduced a new way to browse over a million online books it has added to its collection. DPLA Bookshelf lets the user scroll a visual representation of a bookshelf that provides all the instantaneous power the digital world provides.

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.

Read DPLA press from October 1 – 18, 2013.

Read press from the week ending September 24, 2013.

In the hopes of capitalizing on the amazing wealth of knowledge and energy in our community, we’re excited to kickstart a monthly series of open conference calls separate from the Board calls focused on topics related to our four operational committees.

DPLA press for the week ending September 13, 2013.

During its September 2013 open call, the DPLA Board of Directors announced the formation of a couple of Board committees responsible for carrying out formal governance functions.

Read DPLA press for the week ending September 3, 2013.

The DPLA Board of Directors held a conference call on Wednesday, September 11, 2013. The call was open to the public.

Sheila McAlister, Associate Director of the Digital Library of Georgia, a DPLA Service Hub, was interviewed for episode #173 of Lost in the Stacks, a radio program on WREK Atlanta, Georgia Tech’s student radio station, which is devoted to “music, interviews, and library every Friday for lunch.

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).

We want educators to make use of the incredible primary and secondary resources available through the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). Here’s a quick guide to some topics and themes represented in the DPLA’s vast collections of openly available materials.

The application period for the part-time research assistant position ended on Friday, September 13.

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.

Read DPLA press for the week ending August 2, 2013.