Leslie Fox
INFO 266
Cottrell, M. (April 15, 2013). A digital library for
everyone. American Libraries. Retrieved
from: https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2013/04/15/a-digital-library-for-everyone/
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is a project,
spearheaded by Maura Marx, to digitize the nation's little known cultural
archives and share them for free with everyone.
DAPL will be a portal to a fraction of what's out there. An array
of digitized special collections from the Smithsonian to the National Archives. It sets out to unite these
materials in a single virtual space.
The Digital Hubs Pilot Project is a
confederation of seven digital libraries (six state and one regional) that make
up the beginning of what's available at DPLA. Several other cultural and educational
institutions are also involved in states such as: Arizona, Georgia, Kentucky,
Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon, South Carolina, Utah. Harvard
University is on board to share their digital collections as well. DAPL will be
more of an aggregator of existing collections than a repository. "The purpose of the DPLA is to establish a platform of
resources that will help libraries and other cultural heritage institutions to
succeed in the digital area," says John Palfrey, president of the DPLA
board of directors.
Here's a link to the now launched site: Digital Public Library of America .
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