Author: Kenny Whitebloom
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Press: “More Thoughts on the DPLA”
“”One of the things mentioned at the DPLA lecture I went to was that it is envisioned as a complimentary service to public libraries, not an attempt to replace them.”
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Press: “Better Together: Multi-Institutional Solutions to Digital Challenges” at WebWise 2012
In a session entitled “Better Together: Multi-Institutional Solutions to Digital Challenges” held during the second day of the 2012 Webwise Conference in Baltimore, MD, Christina DePaolo of Balboa Park Online Collaborative mentioned Digital Public Library of America planning initiative.
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Press: Susan Hildreth, IMLS Director, Speaks at WebWise Conference 2012
In her welcoming remarks during the first day of the 2012 Webwise Conference, Director of the IMLS briefly discussed the mission and history of the Digital Public Library of America planning initiative (begins around 27:20).
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Press: John Palfrey speaks at WebWise 2012
In his keynote address entitled “Digital Public Library of America” at the second day of the 2012 Webwise Conference in Baltimore, MD, Steering Committee Chair John Palfrey spoke about the mission and history of the Digital Public Library of America planning initiative.
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Press: “Thursday Sessions: Romance, Reference, Funding and Federal Digitization”
“My day’s third session [at the 2012 PLA Conference] was a presentation from the leadership team at the Digital Public Library of America.”
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Building the Ultimate Summer Reading App
The Audience and Participation email list has been bustling with talk of constructing a summer reading app for the DPLA platform. Nate Hill proposed the idea in February 2012 and has been its chief advocate.
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Press: “The Digital Public Library of America and the Digital Future”
Watch Robert Darnton deliver a speech entitled “The Digital Public Library of America and the Digital Future” at the Donoho Colloquium at Dartmouth College.
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Press: “President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts”
Luis Herrera, City Librarian of the San Francisco Public Library and Steering Committee member, was recently nominated by President Obama to become a member of the National Museum and Library Services Board.
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Press: “Three Cheers and Two Questions for the DPLA”
“Darnton’s inspiration is familiar to most academic librarians: publisher greed has turned the public good of knowledge into a private commodity…”
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Press: “Creating the public library of the future”
“For several years, Martin Gomez has been actively promoting the Digital Public Library of America – a campaign to digitize inventories of cultural and scientific records and make them available to everyone, online – in effect, creating the public library of the future…”