Author: Vicky Zeamer
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Press: Q&A with Dan Cohen on His Role as the Founding Executive Director of DPLA
Matt Enis recently interviewed Dan Cohen, DPLA Executive Director, for a March 12, 2013 article in Library Journal.
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Showcasing Kentucky’s unique oral-history and newspaper collections
The following is part of a series that looks at The Digital Public Library of America – the first national effort to aggregate existing records in state and regional digital libraries so that they are searchable from a single portal. It focuses on one of the six state digital libraries that will act as a…
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Press: A Digital Library for Everyone
From Megan Cottrell’s article in the March/April 2013 issue of American Libraries, “A Digital Library for Everyone”
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Press: Why We Miss the First Sale Doctrine in Digital Libraries
This is the fourth in an occasional series of articles from John Palfrey for Library Journal that will explore issues surrounding the efforts to launch and expand the Digital Public Library of America.
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Digital Library Digest: March 7, 2013
This week’s digest looks at the new North Carolina Sate University library, how librarians are breaking the code and learning more about how computer science can make their work more efficient, an amateur’s newspaper digitization project, a perspective of realizing the digital scope, and a peer to peer review on teaching patrons technology.
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Digitizing Georgia’s cultural heritage
The following is part of a series that looks at The Digital Public Library of America – the first national effort to aggregate existing records in state and regional digital libraries so that they are searchable from a single portal. The following is a look at one of the six state digital libraries that will…
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Press: The Digital Public Library of America, Me, and You
“Twenty years ago Roy Rosenzweig imagined a compelling mission for a new institution: “To use digital media and computer technology to democratize history—to incorporate multiple voices, reach diverse audiences, and encourage popular participation in presenting and preserving the past.” I’ve been incredibly lucky to be a part of that mission for over twelve years, at what became…
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Press: With New Leader, Digital Public Library of America Prepares for Its Debut
“The long-planned Digital Public Library of America is set to make its public debut on schedule next month, with a two-day series of events, to be held April 18-19 at the Boston Public Library, and a new, high-profile leader at the helm. The DPLA announced on Tuesday that Daniel J. Cohen, a leading digital-humanities scholar, will be the project’s founding executive director. “Mr.…
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Digital Library Digest: February 28, 2013
This week’s digest explores the new policy to make federally funded research reports open access, how multimedia digital editions of literature’s classic are changing the classroom, cool videos of projects and programs from the Harvard Library Innovation Lab, and the D.C. Public Library’s work to bridge its digital and brick-and-mortar operations.
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Press: Building the Digital Public Library of America
“The Digital Public Library of America will launch on April 18 after two and a half years of careful planning and preparation. The project known as DPLA is the first national effort that seeks to aggregate existing records in state and regional digital libraries so that they are searchable from a single portal. Up until…