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 […]
We are pleased to announce the Turner Scrapbook Collection, brought to you courtesy of the Newton County Library System (NCLS). The collection comes to us as part of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-funded Public Libraries Partnerships Project (PLPP), where the Digital Library of Georgia has been granted the opportunity to work collaboratively with public […]
Public Library Partnerships Project In April 2014 the Public Library Partnership Project (PLPP) launched its first one-day workshop. Since then the project has continued to mature and affect public libraries across the country. Four Digital Public Library hubs are spearheading this project for the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). These hubs include Digital Commonwealth, […]
The Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) is pleased to announce the addition of the WSB radio logs to the DLG and to the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). View collection: http://bit.ly/U7312q The radio logs document programming in the early years of WSB Radio, Atlanta’s first radio broadcast station. The logs, which span 1922 to 1949, […]
The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce the availability of the Southern School News now in the Civil Rights Digital Library and soon the Digital Public Library of America. The Southern School News Archive provides online access to the complete run of the newspaper, published from 1954 until 1965. The monthly paper was the […]
Take a look: Digital Public Library of America And what can you expect to find initially at the DPLA? John Palfrey, President of the DPLA Board of Directors, describes the launch: “On April 18, we will launch the first beta version of the DPLA. In its first iteration, the DPLA will combine a group […]
The Digital Library of Georgia is a digital hub for the DPLA, and materials from the DLG will be included in the launch. The beginnings of the first public, national, on-line library will soon be unveiled in Boston – home to the country’s first publicly supported municipal library. A prototype of the Digital […]
The DLG serves as a “digital hub” for the developing Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). In this capacity, the DLG (one of seven hubs) will be a pipeline for aggregated data from regional libraries, museums, and archives (read more about the function of these hubs here). The DPLA blog highlights the DLG today, as […]