At its DPLAfest–taking place on October 24-25 in Boston—the Digital Public Library of America introduced a new way to browse over a million online books it has added to its collection. DPLA Bookshelf lets the user scroll a visual representation of a bookshelf that provides all the instantaneous power the digital world provides.

The Digital Public Library of America announced the addition of three new Service Hubs today at a reception celebrating the April 2013 launch of the DPLA and the start of DPLAfest, a two-day series of events free and open to the public taking place in Boston on October 24-25, 2013.

Read DPLA press from October 1 – 18, 2013.

An interview with Jamie Hollier of the DPLA Board of Directors and DPLA research assistant Hillary Brady.

Read press from the week ending September 24, 2013.

The Digital Public Library of America has submitted a comment to the FCC outlining how DPLA’s infrastructure can enable public libraries to modernize their digital services and overall mission.

DPLA press for the week ending September 13, 2013.

Read DPLA press for the week ending September 3, 2013.

Sheila McAlister, Associate Director of the Digital Library of Georgia, a DPLA Service Hub, was interviewed for episode #173 of Lost in the Stacks, a radio program on WREK Atlanta, Georgia Tech’s student radio station, which is devoted to “music, interviews, and library every Friday for lunch.

We’re excited to share that 1.7 million metadata records associated with almost 3.5 million of HathiTrust’s freely available books, journals, government documents, and more are now accessible on dp.la and through the DPLA application programming interface (API).

The application period for the part-time research assistant position ended on Friday, September 13.

Read DPLA press for the week ending August 23, 2013.

The DPLA has officially set up shop in the Boston Public Library, in the heart of Copley Square in downtown Boston!

The University of Southern California Libraries have become the first library in California to partner with the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) as a content hub.

The DPLA was featured recently on NPR’s All Things Considered as part of a series on public libraries in the US, “Keys To The Whole World: American Public Libraries.”

Read DPLA press for the week ending August 2, 2013.

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is extremely excited to announce that an anonymous donor has stepped forward to provide substantial support towards its efforts.

Read DPLA press for the week ending July 12, 2013.

We are extremely pleased to announce that Frances Abbott will be joining the DPLA as an American Council of Learned Society (ACLS) Fellow in September 2013.

The DPLA has been chosen as an American Association of School Librarians (AASL) 2013 Best Websites for
Teaching & Learning.