“We have to make this a public investment [linked open data], perhaps one provided through the Digital Public Library of America, so that all of us can benefit from these insights.”

Watch the opening remarks from the DPLA’s October 2011 Plenary Meeting in Washington, DC.

In this PWxyz post, Peter Brantley discusses ways in which public libraries may be able to devise a model for sustainable e-book lending.

“But it now seems the Americans are following suit with an announcement in October that Harvard University will coordinate efforts to establish an American equivalent of Europeana, to be called the Digital Public Library of America…”

“Whether at the level of DPLA or at more modest community focused libraries, there’s broad recognition that scale empowers rich services, and that greater content aggregation compels use.”

Maura Marx, Martin Kalfatovic, and Maria Pallante, the United States Register of Copyright, were on the WAMU’s Kojo Nmandi Show to talk about a range of topics related to the DPLA earlier this week.

Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, recently gave a short speech in Brussels about digitization efforts in Europe.

On November 29th, 2011, Simmons GSLIS hosted a lecture by John Palfrey entitled “A Future for Libraries in a Digital-Plus Era”. The lecture was sponsored by the Allen Smith Visiting Scholars Program.

John Palfrey, Chair of the DPLA Steering Committee, recently spoke about “A Future for Libraries” as part of the October 2011 MobilityShifts summit at The New School in New York City.

“The DPLA is a national project to provide access to digital content from libraries, museums, and archives in the United States. The project began in 2010, but only recently gained serious momentum with the generous funding contributions…”

“”Much of the final discussion revolved around local scanning and digitization projects; these form the underlying content foundations of both DPLA and NDPL…”

C.M. Rubin interviews Molly Raphael, President of the American Library Association, in this Huffington Post article.

Eric Riley is a librarian at the Washington, D.C. Public Library who spoke with us during a mid-morning break at the October 2011 Plenary conference.

“Held at the a Los Angeles Public Library’s (LAPL) grand Central Library, ‘Creating a Blueprint for Building a National Digital Public Library’ was an opportunity for public libraries to become engaged in the creation of the ‘Digital Public Library of America’ (DPLA).”

“I believe that our era of digital content replacing print content requires a much larger re-visioning of what public libraries can and should be in their communities.”

Elena Kemelman, a recent MLIS graduate, spoke briefly about her personal vision for the DPLA’s future at the October 21, 2011 Plenary Meeting.

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a modified version of the Senate’s Protect IP Act (PIPA), reflects a real and growing tension between libraries and rightsholders.

David Norton gives his perspective on the e-publishing world, public education in a digital environment, and the DPLA’s potential for remarkable change at the October 2011 Plenary.

Audio and slides from the 2011 Digital Library Forum.

“I refer to the Digital Public Library of America, a project to digitize millions of books and to make them available free of charge to everyone in the world. Far from being a utopian dream, this plan is doable…”