Earlier today the folks at OpenGLAM announced the formation of their first Advisory Board. Dan Cohen, DPLA Executive Director, is part of the founding 7 member Board.

Read DPLA press for the week ending June 21, 2013.

Read DPLA press for the week ending June 14, 2013.

A couple of weeks ago DPLA Executive Director Dan Cohen was in Los Angeles, California, where he gave a presentation at the Los Angeles Public Library’s Taper Auditorium

Dan Cohen, Founding Executive Director of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) will be the featured speaker in the ALA President’s Program & Awards Presentation at the 2013 ALA Annual Conference on Sunday, June 30, 2013.

Jamie Hollier, DPLA Board member, will be honored as a White House “Champion of Change” at a special event on June 11, 2013. Congratulatons, Jamie!

Read DPLA press for the week ending June 7, 2013.

The site was updated last week with some requested features including better accessibility, stronger refinement functionality on the timeline, an option to make your lists public to other users, and a host of smaller bug fixes.

Read DPLA press for the week ending May 31, 2013.

Read DPLA press for the week ending May 24, 2013.

Read articles and blogs posts that mention the DPLA (May 17, 2013).

The DPLA will participate in the first ever National Day of Civic Hacking, a national event that will take place on June 1-2 in cities across the nation.

The DPLA staff will be in Cambridge this afternoon (April 18, 2013) to meet with those who would like to chat about the new DPLA site, give thanks to those who helped make the DPLA possible, and look to the future.

The DPLA is pleased to announce the appointment of four new members to its Board of Directors and the creation of new committees.

The Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is joining with the DPLA to provide online access to thousands of historical materials archived at Illinois.

The University of Virginia is a partner in the Digital Public Library of America, the first nationwide online public library, which launches April 18.

The Biodiversity Heritage Library is pleased to announce that it will serve as a digital content hub within the Digital Public Library of America.

The New York Public Library (NYPL) is partnering with the DPLA to provide additional online access to thousands of historic materials archived at its iconic Stephen A. Schwarzman Building.

ARTstor is partnering with the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) to provide access to more than 10,000 high-quality images from six leading museums.

The Smithsonian Institution will join with the Digital Public Library of America to provide links to a wealth of the Institution’s cultural and scientific content, making it a Content Hub within the DPLA network.