Category: Press

“”Much of the final discussion revolved around local scanning and digitization projects; these form the underlying content foundations of both DPLA and NDPL…”

C.M. Rubin interviews Molly Raphael, President of the American Library Association, in this Huffington Post article.

“Held at the a Los Angeles Public Library’s (LAPL) grand Central Library, ‘Creating a Blueprint for Building a National Digital Public Library’ was an opportunity for public libraries to become engaged in the creation of the ‘Digital Public Library of America’ (DPLA).”

“I believe that our era of digital content replacing print content requires a much larger re-visioning of what public libraries can and should be in their communities.”

Audio and slides from the 2011 Digital Library Forum.

“I refer to the Digital Public Library of America, a project to digitize millions of books and to make them available free of charge to everyone in the world. Far from being a utopian dream, this plan is doable…”

“It’s time for a wholesale reconceptualization that inserts multimedia kiosks into the very fabric of the existing architecture of one of the few remaining truly public spaces in contemporary life: the local public library.”

“The vision of the DPLA connecting citizens to and through electronic materials could revolutionize the social structures of education.”

“We, along with many of our members, have been, and continue to be, supporters of the idea for a truly publically available digitized national library. The DPLA is on the way to making this vision a reality.”

Read an excerpt from Matthew Boylan’s post on the New York Public Library blog.