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Press: “At West Coast Meeting, Digital Public Library of America Begins to Take Shape”
“On April 27, DPLA West brought together over 400 librarians, technologists, public policy advocates, and a very small number of publishers at the Internet Archive in San Francisco to discuss the progress of the most visible effort yet to forge a common digital library for both Americans and the world: the nascent Digital Public Library…
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DPLA West Comes to a Close
Over 300 government leaders, librarians, technologists, students, and others gathered at the Internet Archive in San Francisco, CA today to innovate, collaborate, and connect across the DPLA effort.
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DPLA West: Liveblog
The DPLAmats, our able team of research assistants, are liveblogging from DPLA West at the Internet Archive today.
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Harvard Releases 12 Million Library Records
The Harvard Library has made 12 million library records available for programmatic access via the DPLA API.
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Press: “The Library of Utopia”
Nicholas Carr profiles the Digital Public Library of America planning initiative in the May/June 2012 issue of “Technology Review,” published by MIT.
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Press: “Harvard Releases Big Data for Books”
“The metadata will be available for bulk download both from Harvard and from the Digital Public Library of America, which is an effort to create a national public library online.”
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Press: “Building the Digital Public Library”
“Palfrey spoke to librarians across the country about the DPLA yesterday at the ACRL Spring Virtual Institute.”
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Press: “End of an Era at OCLC: Jay Jordan Reflects on His 14-Year Tenure”
In an interview with Library Journal, Jay Jordan, OCLC CEO, mentions his interactions with the DPLA.
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Digital Library Digest: April 13, 2012
This week’s DigLibDig covers the new DPLA video update from John Palfrey, the Justice Department ebook suit, ALA’s “State of America’s Libraries,” the DPLA Hack Day, and new content from ebrary.
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April 2012 DPLA Update From John Palfrey
In this video, John Palfrey gives a short update on the work currently underway within the DPLA effort and efforts yet to come.
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