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Announcing a New Model for Digital Ownership
We’ve partnered with IPG to rewrite the future of providing ebooks to benefit libraries, authors and readers
alike
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Earlier this week, DPLA and Independent Publishers Group (IPG)
announced a groundbreaking agreement that will transform how American libraries provide access to books for millions of readers.
Through this landmark collaboration, libraries around the country will now have the power to purchase and own in perpetuity, rather than merely license, tens of thousands
of ebook and audiobook titles from dozens of independent publishers. The agreement will empower libraries to fulfill their mission to provide access to books for readers nationwide.
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Publishers such as Austin Macauley, Arcadia Publishing, Dynamite Entertainment, Dover Publications and JMS Books, alongside dozens of other renowned indie publishers,
are participating in the deal. Among the tens of thousands of books that are now available for libraries to own and lend out digitally are contemporary award-winning titles, like Leticia Aguilar’s spellbinding memoir
Leaving Patriarchy Behind, Michael Nicholson’s
The Mosaic Escalator, a mind-bending adventure story nominated for the Best Fiction Book Award by the Golden Book Awards 2024, as well as classics like Elizabeth Bowen’s debut novel
The Hotel.
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Thanks to all the amazing partners and libraries nationwide who helped DPLA develop this new model, including Brooklyn Public Library, the Las Vegas-Clark County Library
District, New York Public Library, St. Mary's County Library, and the University of California. And special thanks to Authors Alliance, Boston Library Consortium, the Ebooks Study Group, Every Library, Internet Archive, Library Futures, Lyrasis, METRO, NYU
Engelberg Center and Project LEND.
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ICYMI: Our Recent Webinars
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Resourcefully Assessing: Critical Approaches to Assessment Series
Hosted by the DPLA Outreach & Assessment Working Group
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This summer, the Outreach &
Assessment Working Group presented a series of webinars - Resourcefully Assessing: Critical Approaches to Assessment - which focused on various assessment frameworks and tools used
in education, digital collections, and cultural heritage work.
This series covered topics ranging from assessing quality in Open Education Resources (OERs), to measuring use and re-use of digital objects, to assessing and telling
stories impact of outreach efforts themselves.
In case you weren’t able to attend or want to revisit these information sessions, click on the images below to access the recordings of the events.
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A new home, a bright future
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In early 2024, Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
set out to select a new, durable and long-term home for our signature cultural heritage aggregation program. The 12-year program connects libraries, museums, archives, and other collections across the United States and
now counts over 50 million digital items in its catalog.
We were looking for a partner with the capacity to help grow the work to the next level, the ability to support and sustain the project into the future, a commitment
to values of equity and inclusion, experience with collaborative projects, and proficiency in working with large-scale digital infrastructure.
Following a rigorous application and selection process, guided by the DPLA board and supported by an external
steering committee, a new home was selected in July 2024. We are confident that the collection of America’s digital heritage will be well cared for by our new partner. While we are eager to share details, there is a lot of work in front of us before
we will be ready to make a joint announcement.
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We are confident that the collection of America’s digital heritage will be well cared for by our new partner. We plan to share more about the new home, and how you
can be involved in designing that new work, in the Fall.
In the meantime, the work continues uninterrupted. We will maintain our aggregation services throughout the transition and continue to ingest material as planned —
you can view the schedule
here.
You can find more information about the entire search and selection process
here.
We want to again share our gratitude to everyone for being part of this journey with us.
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Highlighting the brilliant and beautiful — and now banned
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The Banned Book of the Week
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Amid both expanding censorship and energizing celebrations, DPLA’s
Banned Book Club launched a Banned Book of the Week social media series this Spring.
New posts drop every Wednesday on DPLA’s
Instagram,
Facebook,
LinkedIn, and
Twitter feeds. Members of our
Curation Corps select the featured titles and share a bit about what makes these brilliant and beautiful works so special - and why it is such a tragedy that readers are being prevented from accessing them.
We hope you’ll like and share the posts, and add your own favorites to the threads.
Banning books is a threat, not only to our collective knowledge, curiosity and intellectual growth as a society, but to the very concepts of free speech and democracy.
DPLA will continue to tirelessly and unapologetically expand access to banned books, ensuring that we all maintain our freedom to read.
The Working Groups sincerely thank all of the presenters for sharing their stories and their projects. This series could not have happened without their help.
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July 2024 Open Community + Board Meeting
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Last month, we hosted a special conversation on AI in Libraries during our Open Board + Community Meeting. Following a series of small group meetings convened by DPLA
this Spring about the use and future of artificial intelligence (AI) with library leaders, we heard from Benjamin Lee of the University of Washington’s iSchool and DC Public Library’s Meaghan O’Connor on what was learned and what comes next.
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Reflections on ALA24’s “Ebook Friday”
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DPLA @ ALA24
Last month, DPLA co-hosted a day-long ALA Ebook Interest Group meeting, affectionately known as “ALA Ebook Friday,” on the sidelines of the American Library Association’s 2024 Annual Conference.
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Our own Micah May posted his reflections on the day spent alongside so many friends colleagues, and the many themes that emerged.
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Reminder: Network Office Hours
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Every second Tuesday of the month, DPLA will host open Network office hours time with our Director of Community Engagement, Dominic Byrd-McDevitt. This is a chance
for informal conversation or to get questions answered, whether you have big strategy concerns, a technical aggregation issue, or just want to put a face to a name.
We invite anyone who is interested—you could work for a hub, a contributing institution, or just want to learn more about DPLA. No need to pre-register! Simply click
here to join via Zoom, or use these links to add it to your calendar for Google or Outlook.
Our next Office Hours are
Tuesday, September 10 at 2pm ET and
Tuesday, October 8 at 2pm ET. Save the dates!
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Palace Project beach reads
With the Summer waning, there’s no better time to get your book on with the
Palace Project’s curated bookshelves.
You’ll find literary classics alongside new fiction, deep cuts from the archive, and other gems.
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Do you have news you’d like to share in our next newsletter?
Let us know.
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