RB 185: The Next Generation Library
October 17th, 2011
A batch of E-Readers shown off at the 2011 National Book Festival
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What would a digital version of your public library look like? There’s more to it than e-books and digital reading devices. Librarians, scholars, innovators, and techno-wizards are collaborating under the mantle of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) to build a next generation public library. Such a thing could incorporate one or more of many different elements: a set of physical buildings; a purely digital archive with an open API layer for coders to play around with; a full fledged digital lending library.
And when the DPLA converge on the National Archives in Washington, DC this Friday (you can check out the agenda and tune in to a livestream here) they’ll get to work out just a few of those ideas.
Today, a special report from Benjamin Naddaf-Hafrey who spoke to a few of the minds behind the DPLA.
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1. Attention Economy –&hellip | November 2nd, 2011 at 4:17 pm
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2. Attention Economy –&hellip | November 2nd, 2011 at 4:51 pm
[…] MediaBerkman » Blog Archive » RB 185: The Next Generation Library 101711 What would a digital version of your public library look like? There’s more to it than e-books and digital reading devices. Librarians, scholars, innovators, and techno-wizards are collaborating under the mantle of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) to build a next generation public library. Such a thing could incorporate one or more of many different elements: a set of physical buildings; a purely digital archive with an open API layer for coders to play around with; a full fledged digital lending library. And when the DPLA converge on the National Archives in Washington, DC this Friday (you can check out the agenda and tune in to a livestream here) they’ll get to work out just a few of those ideas. […]