Digital Public Library of American Opens: The Digital Public Library of American opened today. The DPLA has been a work in progress for a number of years and to quote from the About page on the DPLA site: “The Digital public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and make them freely available to the world. It strives to contain the full breadth of human expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America’s heritage, to the efforts and data of science. The DPLA aims to expand this crucial realm of openly available materials, and make those riches more easily discovered and more widely usable and used.”
And you might be wondering who the people are behind the DPLA – and the general answer is people that work in libraries, museums and archives across the United States. However, a more specific answer can be found in some of the partner organizations that contribute content to the online DPLA and they include: The Smithsonian, The New York Public Library, The National Archives and Records Administration, The Harvard Library, The University of Virginia, The Biodiversity Heritage Library and ARTstor among others. The site has just opened and it is a great site to check out. I was able to look at some cool historic photos of Corning Glass by doing a simple search for Corning on the site so I urge everyone to check it out!
Here’s the link to the DPLA site itself:
A link to the partners’ page on the DPLA site:
http://dp.la/info/about/who/partners/hubs/
A link to a Verge article on the opening of the DPLA titled Digital Public Library of America launches beta web portal:
http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/18/4238866/digital-public-library-of-america-launches-beta-web-portal
And a link to an NPR article on the DPLA titled Vast Digital Public Library of America Opens:
Opportunities To Peruse Life-Long Learning With Free Classes, E-Books, Movies & Audio Books: If you’re interested in learning to know more about a great many subjects from Archaeology to history to math and the natural sciences but don’t want to go to college and obtain a college degree nor to pay for college level classes then you may want to check out the Open Culture website found at:
The website editor is Dan Coleman who is the Director & Associate Dean of Stanford’s Continuing Education program so the materials and courses offered for free though the site are high in quality.
And naturally I was prompted to write about the Open Culture online materials and classes by coming across an article I found while reading news stories via the Zite app on my iPad. The article is titled: Enrich Yourself with Free Courses, Audio Books, eBooks, Movies, Textbooks & More and it actually links to information found on the Open Culture website – here’s the link:
Have a great day!
Linda R.
References
Digital Public Library of America. Online. Accessed April 18, 2013.
June, Laura. (2013, April 18). Digital Public Library of America launches beta web portal. The Verge. Online.
Enrich Yourself with Free Courses, Audio Books, eBooks, Movies, Textbooks & More. Open Culture. Online. Accessed April 18, 2013.
Partners. Digital Public Library of America. Online. Accessed April 18, 2013.
Quinn, Annalisa. (2013, April 18). Vast ‘Digital Public Library Of America’ Opens Today. NPR. Online.
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