Author: Kenny Whitebloom
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Press: “Nonprofit ‘Digital Public Library Of America’ To Launch In April 2013”
“Enter the Digital Public Library of America, which aims to create a similar catalog of works, but both more comprehensive and unimpeded by commercial motives. It’s been in the works for a while, but it seems it may finally launch as early as a year from now.”
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Press: “Darnton Makes the Case for DPLA at Columbia Law”
Library Journal article describing Robert Darnton’s April 2012 talk at Columbia Law School.
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Press: “Harvard librarian promises free Digital Public Library of America by 2013”
“At a talk at Columbia Law School on April 2, Harvard University librarian Robert Darnton promised that the Digital Public Library of America, a nonprofit effort to offer free access to millions of digitized books, would become a reality by this time next year.”
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Press: “Robert Darnton Promises Digital Public Library by 2013”
“Scholar and Harvard University librarian Robert Darnton vowed that the Digital Public Library of America, a nonprofit, nationwide effort to digitize and offer access to millions of free, digitized books and special collections would launch by April of 2013.”
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Press: “Digital Public Library of America: The Biggest Library The World Has Ever Seen?”
An article in Spring 2012 “JISC Inform” on the Digital Public Library of America, featuring an interview with Robert Darnton.
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Press: “Computers in Libraries 2012: Susan Hildreth”
Susan Hildreth, IMLS Director and Steering Committee member, mentioned the DPLA in a discussion with Jaap van de Geer at Computers in Libraries 2012 in Washington, D.C.
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Press: “The Digital Public Library of America: Why Library and Information Students Should Care”
“It is incredible to think of the potential impact in making the collective knowledge and research of major universities libraries and the digitized cultural collections of public libraries, universally accessible to all American citizens online…”
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Press: “Doing It for Themselves: Libraries and E-books”
“The merits of greater aggregation help motivate the interest in the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) serving as a national platform provider for ebooks…”
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First steps in DPLA-Europeana virtual exhibition
The DPLA and Europeana team up for a joint virtual exhibition on the migration of Europeans to and from the United States.
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Press: “Exquisite Informational Immersion: Fusing the Visions of Readers’ Advisory and Technologist Librarians | PLA 2012”
“”In the absence of what Palfrey termed ‘mothers or fathers’ and in an attempt to define ‘what the It [of the DPLA] should be,’ he talked about its basic components: code (‘open source, free for all’), metadata, content, and tools and services.”