Press: “A Digital Public Library for America?”
Read an excerpt from Matthew Boylan’s post on the New York Public Library blog.
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Read an excerpt from Matthew Boylan’s post on the New York Public Library blog.
“In a session on the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), Robert Darnton, Director of the Harvard University Library, likened the concept to Thomas Jefferson’s observation that often the use of something does not diminish its value.”
“I want to offer a work-in-progress report on the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and to argue that it is a feasible, affordable project as well as an opportunity to realize the Enlightenment ideals on which our country was founded.”
“The operation is making quick progress and should have a full operational online database set up by April 2013.”
DPLA Secretariat Director Maura Marx gave a short update on the DPLA at last month’s Europeana Tech Conference.
David Curry guests blogs about the United Nations’ new global broadband targets for 2015.
“During the last two weeks, two major national events exploring the frontiers of e-publishing took place on opposite coasts of the US…”
Over 300 government leaders, librarians, technologists, students, and others gathered at the National Archives on October 21, 2011 to share their visions for the DPLA.
“Distributed content might be an appealing vision even at the scale of DPLA, where a wide range of digital treasures reside at local public libraries, archives, and museums.”
” So, enter the DPLA: a digital library mega-effort with an ambitious goal to make all of our rich cultural heritage available across the web. How will that change the activities in library spaces in rural Texan towns or neighborhood libraries in San Jose?”
The development private philanthropy to fund public libraries, federal, state, regional and local support of libraries and networks, the emergence of library consortia and meta data standardization, suggest the elements needed to build the DPLA.
We invited two artists from ImageThink to join us at last week’s Digital Public Library of America plenary meeting to create a visual record of the day’s discussions.
“Enter the nonprofit alternative for bringing the world’s books online for all readers: the newly-funded Digital Public Library of America.”
One of the settled principles of DPLA is that access should be free at the point of the end-user.
Kara Novak writes about the October 21 Plenary Meeting in Washington DC for PublicKnowledge.org
“The push by Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society to create a large-scale digital library got a $5 million boost on Oct. 21.”
“The Digital Public Library of America doesn’t exist yet, but it’s closer to becoming a reality.”
“Last Thursday and Friday, a group of librarians, scholars, industry leaders, and educators came together for the first plenary meeting to begin serious plans for a ‘Digital Public Library of America.”
The Digital Public Library of America, an initiative spearheaded by Harvard faculty members, is making fast progress toward developing a fully operational online database of existing digitized works by April 2013.
Although the project is still financially, logistically, and technologically in the conceptual and planning phase, it has certainly generated plenty of enthusiasm.