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Press: “Digital Public Library of America”
David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States, gives his take on the October 2011 Plenary Meeting in Washington DC.
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Press: “The Other Digital Divide – ‘Bringing the Local Community Out’”
Melissa Mannon discusses the “digital divide” and evaluates where the DPLA may factor in.
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Press: “US digital library in works “
Hiawatha Bray of the Boston Globe reports on the DPLA.
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Press: “First thoughts after the DPLA launch and workstream meetings”
Nate Hill responds to his work with the Audience & Participation workstream at the DPLA conference.
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Press: “The DPLA Muster”
John Palfrey and a cabal of Harvard academics have forged a movement from the fire of frustrated librarians, archivists, and information professionals who have recognized that a lot of the present system is broken and going nowhere fast.
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First DPLA Plenary Meeting Comes to a Close
Over 300 government leaders, librarians, technologists, students, and others gathered at the National Archives in Washington, DC today to share their visions for the DPLA.
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Digital Public Library of America and Europeana Announce Collaboration
Two major digital library networks have reached an agreement to collaborate in ways that will make a large part of the world’s cultural heritage available to a large part of the world’s population.
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Sloan Foundation and Arcadia Fund Announce Funding for the Digital Public Library of America
The Sloan Foundation and Arcadia Fund today announced a major contribution for the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) in the form of combined $5 million in funding. The DPLA Steering Committee is leading the first concrete steps toward the realization of a large-scale digital public library that will make the cultural and scientific record…
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DPLA Plenary Meeting Livestream
We’re streaming live from the National Archives in Washington, DC.
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DPLA Plenary Meeting Liveblog
Ben Naddaff-Hafrey and Kenny Whitebloom are liveblogging from the DPLA Plenary Meeting at the National Archives today.
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