Last week, DPLA held our inaugural new year kickoff meeting. Over 100 people joined us to begin what promises to be a significant year for all of our work.  Our goal was to review the progress we made in 2024, and to invite people to be part of launching the next phase of our work […]

A Year-End Note from the Staff of DPLA Here at DPLA, we are capping off an eventful 2024 and looking forward to an even more momentous year to come. We’re reflecting on all we’ve accomplished this year. Here are some highlights: Turning the page on ‘24, writing our new chapter in ‘25 Look for a […]

Very soon, DPLA will announce the new home of our cultural heritage program, and so we wanted to take a moment to get you up to speed on our progress. As a reminder, in recent months, we shared several updates, including the news that DPLA will maintain the cultural heritage aggregation program through 2025. We […]

This is a guest post by Ben Lee, Assistant Professor, University of Washington Information School. In the context of public libraries, artificial intelligence (AI) has elicited a wide spectrum of responses. On the one hand, it brings excitement surrounding new possibilities for public programming, collection development, and staff usage. On the other hand, it elicits […]

DPLA honored for its partnership with the Indiana State Library Today — October 4, 2024 — was declared by Indianapolis mayor Joseph H. Hogsett to be “Wikipedia Day,” recognizing Wikipedia as the most well-read reference work in the world. DPLA is honored to be mentioned in the mayor’s proclamation. Through DPLA’s partnership with the Indiana […]

Readers across the country can now access banned books for free via the Palace app Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and our partners at Lyrasis have made over 1,300 titles that have been removed from schools and libraries available to all Americans for free through The Banned Book Club, available on the Palace app […]

This is a guest post authored by DPLA Curation Corps Team Leader, Georgia Westbrook. Librarians and other information professionals are key to keeping the doors to knowledge – both in person and on the internet – open for all. That’s why DPLA created the Curation Corps, a group of 12 former and current librarians and […]

Dear friends of DPLA,  We’ve had a busy summer at DPLA, as we make the turn into fall I wanted to share an update on all the things that we’ve been up to. At our Community + Open Board meeting in July, we shared an update on our process for selecting a long-term home for […]

Digital Public Library of America and Independent Publishers Group have partnered to rewrite the future of providing ebooks to benefit libraries, authors and readers alike Chicago, August 13, 2024 – The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and Independent Publishers Group (IPG) have announced a groundbreaking agreement that will transform how American libraries provide access […]

Last month, I joined friends and colleagues from around the country at the American Library Association’s 2024 Annual Conference. Yet again, DPLA helped co-host the day-long ALA Ebook Interest Group meeting, now affectionately known as “ALA Ebook Friday.” My own day got off to a wild start. While surfing early that morning, I was stung […]

Join DPLA on Monday, July 8 at 2 PM ET for an Open Board + Community Meeting. We will be joined by Benjamin Lee of the University of Washington’s Information School and Meaghan O’Connor of DC Public Library for a conversation on what we’ve heard through a series of conversations this spring with library leaders […]

DPLA is in San Diego this week for the 2024 ALA Annual Conference and Exhibition. Here is where you can find us.

DPLA will be at the ALA Annual Conference in San Diego later this month and we hope to see you there.

Read the latest on our search for a new home for our cultural heritage work and meet our amazing steering committee.

Our award-winning Banned Book Club will continue to highlight brilliant and beautiful works being taken off library shelves Last July, DPLA launched the Banned Book Club to ensure that all readers have access to the books they want to read. The Banned Book Club allows readers in communities directly affected by book bans to access […]

On the heels of our highly successful reparative description workshop series, brought to you by the Metadata and Rights Statements working groups, the Outreach & Assessment Working Group is proud to announce Resourcefully Assessing: Critical Approaches to Assessment, an event series focused on various assessment frameworks and tools used in education, digital collections, and cultural heritage […]

In Spring 2024, DPLA’s Metadata Working Group and Rights Statements Working Group produced Practical Approaches to Reparative Description, a workshop series designed for people working with cultural heritage data looking to deepen their understanding and practice of reparative description. Reparative description focuses on remediating or contextualizing potentially outdated or harmful language used in descriptive practices, […]

Last month, DPLA began a search to select a vibrant and durable home for our flagship cultural heritage aggregation program. Our deadline for the first round of expressions of interest was Tuesday, and we are so appreciative of and encouraged by the responses we received. We are grateful for everyone who has reached out to […]

DPLA held its most recent quarterly Open Board + Community Meeting this Monday, April 22. If you missed the meeting, we invite you to watch the recording to more about the ongoing process to identify a sustainable home for DPLA’s cultural heritage program. We also provided updates on our core work, including our cultural heritage […]

The history of book bans is the history of the fight for power. We know that, time and again, book bans seek to specifically and disproportionately silence black, brown and LGBTQIA+ authors and stories. While book bans continue across America, DPLA is proud to be part of a group of leading libraries committed to counteracting […]