Registration for the Society of American Archivists Teaching with Primary Sources Unconference August 3rd at the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History in Atlanta, GA is still live. Attendance is free and aiming to bring together a multiplicity of professions (artists, scientists, historians, educators, librarians, archivists, museum professionals, digital humanities, etc.). All […]
If you work in a cultural heritage institution and oversee a digital newspaper project, please complete this survey. This survey is being conducted by the Digital Public Library of America as a part of a planning process to determine what role, if any, the DPLA should play in providing access to digital newspaper content held […]
From DPLA’s original press release, available here. In concert with the American Library Association national conference in Orlando, Florida, this week, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and FamilySearch International, the largest genealogy organization in the world, have signed an agreement that will expand access to FamilySearch.org’s growing free digital historical book collection to DPLA’s broad audience of users including genealogists, […]
The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce a new online exhibition titled Tragedy in the New South: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank that is now available through the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). The link to the exhibit is http://dp.la/exhibitions/exhibits/show/leo-frank. On April 26, 1913, Confederate Memorial […]
The American Association of School Librarians is hosting a complimentary live webinar on Wednesday, October 21, 7:00 PM EST. The webinar, Using Digital Public Library of American for Inquiry-Based Teaching and Learning, will be targeted to school library professionals, and those interested in the topic. Registration information for the workshop is available at http://www.ala.org/aasl/ecollab/dpla . In this session, presenters Franky […]
The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce two brand-new online exhibitions on the subjects of children in Progressive-era America, and Georgia’s home front during World War II that are now available through the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). These exhibitions were created as part of the DPLA’s Public Library Partnerships Project (PLPP) […]
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is in the process of starting up new groups to facilitate the exploration of topics that are important to the DPLA community. These groups are: Archival Description Working Group: The Archival Description Working Group is composed of representatives from DPLA Partner institutions as well as national-level experts in digital […]
Digital Public Library of America, Stanford University, and DuraSpace are partnering on the IMLS-funded “Hydra in a Box” project to develop a “feature-rich, robust, flexible digital repository that is easy to install, configure, and maintain” based on the Hydra project codebase. They’re seeking input from those who manage digtial collections and those who are interested […]
Our director Sheila McAlister has just published a new article on the Digital Library Federation’s blog about how the Digital Library of Georgia has partnered with Georgia’s public libraries through Georgia HomePLACE and the DPLA’s Public Library Partnerships Program. Please take a look! […]
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is on the way to connecting online collections from coast to coast by 2017 – an effort boosted by a new $3.4 million investment, comprising $1.9 million from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and $1.5 million from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. These two new […]