This week’s DigLibDig covers the Ars Technica article on DPLA West, continued challenges of providing digital content & services in public libraries, the American Library Association call for information on library-as-publisher, and a newly-digital archive of Ernest Hemingway’s journalism.
“Most neighborhoods in America have a public library. Now the biggest neighborhood in America, the Internet, wants a library of its own. Last week, Ars attended a conference held by the Digital Public Library of America, a nascent group of intellectuals hoping to put all of America’s library holdings online.”
This week’s DigLibDig covers ALA’s post on DPLA West, Internet Archive’s letter to publishers, the role of libraries in the digital age, and more.
One library science student gives his take on DPLA West.
We invited two artists from ImageThink to join us at DPLA West last week to create a visual record of the day’s discussions.
“But the dream of a universal digital library lives on. Now a coalition of libraries and archives has come together to create a Digital Public Library of America to fulfill the original vision of a digital library for all. It could well be that an effort without commerce in the mix will have an easier time of it.”
“On April 27, DPLA West brought together over 400 librarians, technologists, public policy advocates, and a very small number of publishers at the Internet Archive in San Francisco to discuss the progress of the most visible effort yet to forge a common digital library for both Americans and the world: the nascent Digital Public Library of America.”
Over 300 government leaders, librarians, technologists, students, and others gathered at the Internet Archive in San Francisco, CA today to innovate, collaborate, and connect across the DPLA effort.
The DPLAmats, our able team of research assistants, are liveblogging from DPLA West at the Internet Archive today.
The Harvard Library has made 12 million library records available for programmatic access via the DPLA API.
