A weekly roundup of press releases concerning the Digital Public Library of America.

“The next time you’re temped to waste ten minutes looking at an online slideshow of cat pictures, point your browser at the Digital Public Library of America instead.”

A weekly roundup of press releases concerning the Digital Public Library of America.

This week’s digest spotlights a discussion among architects and librarians about the role of libraries in a digital world, a Pew Research Center report on the relationship among parents, children, libraries, and reading, the digitization of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s handwritten ledger, Purdue University’s newly launched Data Curation Profiles Directory, and a video of Robert Darnton and John Palfrey discussing copyright laws and libraries at Harvard Law School.

“How the newly-launched online library builds off the work of public libraries, museums and archives and creates exciting new possibilities for researchers, programmers and curious minds. Public libraries have long played a central role in American communities. The Digital Public Library of America aims to follow in that tradition as an online database of the […]

This week’s digest covers the new U.S. National Archives website called “The Digital Vaults,” a speech from the House Judiciary Committee concerning a review of the U.S. copyright law, Simon & Schuster’s library ebook pilot, the Library of Congress’s special Grammy Award, and New York City’s protests against the sale of libraries.

Read a selection of articles and blog posts on folks’ first reactions to the beta Digital Public Library of America, launched on April 18, 2013.

A selection of articles and blog posts from tech publications on the launch of the Digital Public Library of America.

A selection of articles from major news outlets on the launch of the Digital Public Library of America.