Susan Hildreth, IMLS Director and Steering Committee member, mentioned the DPLA in a discussion with Jaap van de Geer at Computers in Libraries 2012 in Washington, D.C.

“It is incredible to think of the potential impact in making the collective knowledge and research of major universities libraries and the digitized cultural collections of public libraries, universally accessible to all American citizens online…”

“The merits of greater aggregation help motivate the interest in the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) serving as a national platform provider for ebooks…”

The DPLA and Europeana team up for a joint virtual exhibition on the migration of Europeans to and from the United States.

“”In the absence of what Palfrey termed ‘mothers or fathers’ and in an attempt to define ‘what the It [of the DPLA] should be,’ he talked about its basic components: code (‘open source, free for all’), metadata, content, and tools and services.”

“”One of the things mentioned at the DPLA lecture I went to was that it is envisioned as a complimentary service to public libraries, not an attempt to replace them.”

In a session entitled “Better Together: Multi-Institutional Solutions to Digital Challenges” held during the second day of the 2012 Webwise Conference in Baltimore, MD, Christina DePaolo of Balboa Park Online Collaborative mentioned Digital Public Library of America planning initiative.

In her welcoming remarks during the first day of the 2012 Webwise Conference, Director of the IMLS briefly discussed the mission and history of the Digital Public Library of America planning initiative (begins around 27:20).

In his keynote address entitled “Digital Public Library of America” at the second day of the 2012 Webwise Conference in Baltimore, MD, Steering Committee Chair John Palfrey spoke about the mission and history of the Digital Public Library of America planning initiative.

“My day’s third session [at the 2012 PLA Conference] was a presentation from the leadership team at the Digital Public Library of America.”

The Audience and Participation email list has been bustling with talk of constructing a summer reading app for the DPLA platform. Nate Hill proposed the idea in February 2012 and has been its chief advocate.

Watch Robert Darnton deliver a speech entitled “The Digital Public Library of America and the Digital Future” at the Donoho Colloquium at Dartmouth College.

Luis Herrera, City Librarian of the San Francisco Public Library and Steering Committee member, was recently nominated by President Obama to become a member of the National Museum and Library Services Board.

“Darnton’s inspiration is familiar to most academic librarians: publisher greed has turned the public good of knowledge into a private commodity…”

“For several years, Martin Gomez has been actively promoting the Digital Public Library of America – a campaign to digitize inventories of cultural and scientific records and make them available to everyone, online – in effect, creating the public library of the future…”

Nate Hill spoke with us last week via email about work done by the Audience & Participation workstream in advance of DPLA West, libraries as creative spaces, and his personal vision for the DPLA.

“Darnton spoke with Dartmouth Now about the DPLA project after his lecture, which was also the inaugural Donoho Colloquium, sponsored by The Neukom Institute for Computational Science and the Friends of the Dartmouth College Library.”

Robert Darnton spoke in Dartmouth’s Filene Auditorium in Monday’s inaugural Donoho Colloquium titled “The Digital Public Library of America and the Digital Future.”

“The original vision for librarylab.org was connected to the Digital Public Library of America beta sprint; it was to be a networked physical architecture acting as a gateway for contribution to a national digital library.”

We recently spoke with Michael Kelley, executive editor of news and features for Library Journal, about current events in the library ebook market.