Funding will help to spotlight Minnesota’s special resources, increase outreach, and develop “Born Digital” immigration oral-histories “MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (11/26/2012) —The Minnesota Digital Library, a state-wide collaboration consisting of the University of Minnesota, Minitex, the Minnesota Historical Society, and other key institutions, was chosen to be a key early contributor to the Digital Public Library of […]

Steering Committee member Robert Darnton recently participated in the MIT Communications Forum.

In Palfrey’s first column of the Library Journal, he provides a background of the project as well as discusses the fundamental questions surrounding the DPLA.

Appfest shows off space for collaboration in the Chattanooga Public Library View more from Aaron Schmidt, Views from the DPLA Appfest at Chattanooga Public Library 4th Floor of the Chattanooga Public Library looks blank, but is full of room for community and creativity  “I think institutions have layers that move at different speeds. The parts of […]

“Over the years, people have called Muriel McDowell-Jackson, devastated after they lost photos or other sentimental objects in a house fire or some other family tragedy. “They often turn to McDowell-Jackson, the head genealogy librarian/archivist for the Middle Georgia Regional Library, hoping that some portion of their history has been previously preserved in the library’s […]

This week’s digest features a town’s effort to collect content by hosting a “Digital Donation Day,” a DIY robotic book scanner plan, a JSTOR and Wikipedia open access partnership, a founding partner of the World Digital Library’s own effort to create a digital library at home, and a decision from Louisiana state to cut all state-level funding for their public libraries.

The DPLA Secretariat is pleased to announce the appointment of Amy Rudersdorf as the DPLA Assistant Director for Content, beginning January 1, 2013.

“Toby Graham, Director of the Digital Library of Georgia (DLG), was interviewed on WGAU’s Newsmakers with Tim Bryant program. The topic of this interview was the DLG’s involvement with the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). It is an excellent introduction to the goals of the DPLA, and to the important role that the DLG […]

This week’s digest discusses the issue of time and maintaining of cloud server based archives, a crowdsourced transcription effort by the National Archive of Australia, a Danish effort to offer free on-demand digitizing, the work of the University of Georgia digital hub, and the Author’s Guild’s appeal of the HathiTrust court decision.

Not Just a Matter of Acid-Free Paper Anymore, Long Term Storage Issues for Digital Media  “Stanford University‘s (CA) Julie Sweetkind-Singer is a recognized authority on digital preservation, and has been honored by the Library of Congress for her work in the field. She currently serves as both the assistant director of Stanford’s Geospatial, Cartographic and Scientific Data […]

“The role of the library in the digital age is one of the compelling questions of our era. How are libraries coping with the promise and perils of our impending digital future? What urgent initiatives are underway to assure universal access to our print inheritance and to the digital communication forms of the future? How […]

 PARTICIPATORY WORKSHOPS BRING FOCUS TO THREE ASPECTS OF THE PROJECT “The first day of meetings were participatory workshops where a wide group of interested parties moved between three topic areas: Content Infrastructure and the Digital Hubs Pilot Program, Technical Development, and The Future of the DPLA. These sessions provided important feedback to the DPLA leadership […]

“Shortly after the DPLA Midwest Plenary in October,* DPLA Director for Content Emily Gore spoke with CLIR Issues about the DPLA, its April 2013 launch, and what’s next. “How do DPLA efforts build on past digital library work? “The whole idea of the DPLA is to take advantage of existing infrastructure to expose content that is already […]

The Harvard Library plans to share several collections with the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), becoming the first DPLA content hub.

Empowering library staff while ensuring the integrity of systems through coding education “Should librarians be learning to how to develop software? This theme has come up in the past few years1 and I think it is a good thing. I once had a boss that told his group “I want you guys to automate yourself out […]

This week’s digest discusses the success of the Hathi Trust case, MIT’s Open Access Articles Collection international benefits, a creative way a digital archiving project is calling out to traditional exceptions of archives in its user interface, the Met’s catalog digitization, and some international presentations on how libraries can help the homeless access information.

Watch the October 2012 DPLA update from John Palfrey, DPLA Board of Directors, recorded at the October 12, 2012 DPLA Midwest Plenary in Chicago, IL.

A guest post from Jorge A. Martinez, director/IT at the Knight Foundation on Knight’s recent $1 million award to the DPLA for its Digital Hubs Pilot Project.

The Digital Public Library of America will launch pilot projects with $1 million in funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

This week’s digest gives some background and updates on the developing Google intellectual property lawsuit, how California is embracing the benefits of online open source information in relation to textbooks for their public universities, and a crowd sourced digital information project at the University of Illinois.