Category: Press
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Press: “The Digital Public Library of America: Highlights from Robert Darnton’s recent talk”
“”I was fortunate to be among those attending Robert Darnton’s talk on the Digital Public Library of America initiative last week…”
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Press: “Digital Public Library of America”
“On January 17th I attended a lecture given by Professor Robert Darnton, hosted by SCONUL and JISC at the Royal Society, on ‘The Digital Public Library of America: Current Plans and Future Prospects’.”
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Press: “‘You can’t take the sky from me’: the DPLA and the open Web”
“A group of people including Professor Darnton propose to change this situation, to open up access to knowledge by creating a National Digital Library for the public – the Digital Public Library of America.”
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Press: “DPLA, Syracuse, Library Blogs Take Part in SOPA/PIPA Protest”
“”Thousands of websites, from major sites like the social news website Reddit, the Internet Archive’s main site, and the English-language version of Wikipedia, to small personal WordPress blogs, have ‘gone dark’ today as part of a coordinated protest against the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), currently in committee in the House, and the Preventing…
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Press: “Nothing Like It Has Ever Existed”
“Yesterday I went to a lecture by Robert Darnton, on ‘The Digital Public Library of America: Current Plans and Future Prospects’….”
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Press: “Top 10 Library Stories of 2011”
“10. Digital Destiny: The ambitious Digital Public Library of America began a two-year endeavor in October to find a way to make the US cultural and scientific record available online, while the Europeana Foundation launched a plan to aggregate and distribute the continent’s cultural heritage.”
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Press: “Ebooks in Public Libraries: Whither, Which, How”
“The Digital Public Library of America discussion list has kicked into high gear again, in anticipation of an in-person meeting at the American Library Association Midwinter Conference in mid-January, 2012 in Dallas, Texas.”
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Press: “Library License: A suggested framework”
“A slightly different variation would be a license that was provided to a specific institution, for example, the Digital Public Library of America. This kind of institutional license could be combined with a time-based or performance-based license, so that titles could be granted to the DPLA after five years (for example).”
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Press: “This is Exciting: The Digital Public Library of America”
“The general idea for the Library is ‘to make available, free of charge, the cultural heritage of our great research libraries,’ but in a non-commercial way, unlike Google’s book project, which has been tangled up in the courts over copyright.”
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Press: “Review of 2011 and Trends Watch 2012”
“Meanwhile, important library-oriented efforts hoping to provide new solutions continue to push forward, such as the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), Internet Archive’s OpenLibrary, and the grass-roots initiative, Library Renewal.”