{"id":975,"date":"2011-08-15T21:43:16","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T21:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/?p=975"},"modified":"2011-10-06T17:27:18","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T17:27:18","slug":"how-e-libraries-and-other-tech-could-fit-in-with-literacy-efforts-stellar-local-priorities-from-dpla%e2%80%99s-newest-steering-committee-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/2011\/08\/15\/how-e-libraries-and-other-tech-could-fit-in-with-literacy-efforts-stellar-local-priorities-from-dpla%e2%80%99s-newest-steering-committee-member\/","title":{"rendered":"Press: &#8220;How e-libraries and other tech could fit in with literacy efforts: Stellar local priorities from DPLA\u2019s newest steering committee member&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sometime in the next few weeks I\u2019ll review\u00a0<em>Saving Our Public Libraries: Why We Should. How We Can<\/em>, by\u00a0Janet Jai\u2014&#8217;must&#8217; reading for participants in the\u00a0Digital Public Library of America.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Literacy, lifelong learning for the masses, patrons\u2019 economic advancement, and promotion of democracy are foremost on her mind.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Culture and heritage would fall within the learning category, but clearly Ms. Jai recognizes the need for balanced priorities\u2014something missing from the<em>current<\/em>\u00a0university-dominated DPLA, one reason why LibraryCity favors the creation of intertwined but separate public and scholarly digital library systems, with somewhat overlapping boards.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From David Rothman&#8217;s blogpost on LibraryCity.org, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/librarycity.org\/?p=2033\" target=\"_blank\">How e-libraries and other tech could fit in with literacy efforts: Stellar local priorities from DPLA\u2019s newest steering committee member<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From David Rothman: &#8220;Sometime in the next few weeks I\u2019ll review Saving Our Public Libraries: Why We Should. How We Can, by Janet Jai\u2014&#8217;must&#8217; reading for participants in the Digital Public Library of America.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4454,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1919],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1492,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions\/1492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}