{"id":980,"date":"2011-08-11T22:07:55","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T22:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/?p=980"},"modified":"2011-10-06T17:27:37","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T17:27:37","slug":"newest-dpla-steering-committee-member-is-small-town-librarian-in-rural-south-carolina-smart-appointment-by-harvard-based-digital-library-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/2011\/08\/11\/newest-dpla-steering-committee-member-is-small-town-librarian-in-rural-south-carolina-smart-appointment-by-harvard-based-digital-library-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Press: &#8220;Newest DPLA steering committee member is small-town librarian in rural South Carolina: Smart appointment by Harvard-based digital library initiative&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A\u00a0small-town public librarian has been missing from the\u00a0steering committee\u00a0of the\u00a0Digital Public Library of America\u2014a troubling omission we\u2019ve noted several times since the DPLA\u2019s founding last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But now the Harvard-based DPLA has filled in the gap with the appointment of\u00a0Dwight McInvaill, director of the\u00a0Georgetown County Library\u00a0in a rural and costal area of South Carolina. Great move. McInvaill has won national recognition for working with other cultural agencies to\u00a0digitally preserve old photos, maps and other historical content, including\u00a0newspapers. His own family has been in South Carolina since the 1820s.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From David Rothman&#8217;s blogpost on LibraryCity.org, &#8220;<a href=\"Smart appointment by Harvard-based digital library initiative\" target=\"_blank\">Newest DPLA steering committee member is small-town librarian in rural South Carolina<\/a>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From David Rothman: &#8220;A small-town public librarian has been missing from the steering committee of the Digital Public Library of America\u2014a troubling omission we\u2019ve noted several times since the DPLA\u2019s founding last year.&#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-980","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\/980","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=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1493,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions\/1493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}