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Press: “Jefferson’s Taper: A National Digital Library”
“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.”
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Press: “Digital Public Library of America Complete by 2013”
“The operation is making quick progress and should have a full operational online database set up by April 2013.”
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DPLA video update from Europeana Tech
DPLA Secretariat Director Maura Marx gave a short update on the DPLA at last month’s Europeana Tech Conference.
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DPLA in Context: Milestones in Broadband Infrastructure
David Curry guests blogs about the United Nations’ new global broadband targets for 2015.
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Press: “Historians, Academic Publishers, and the Ongoing Digital Publishing (R)evolution”
“During the last two weeks, two major national events exploring the frontiers of e-publishing took place on opposite coasts of the US…”
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Photos from the DPLA Plenary Meeting
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.
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Press: “Libraries: Together or Apart”
“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.”
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Digital Library Digest: October 28, 2011
A round-up of media output related to our recent plenary meeting in Washington, D.C.
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Press: “DLF Presentation Monday: What a National Digital Library means for Public Libraries”
” 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?”
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Press: “The Digital Public Library of America; In the beginning…”
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.
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