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28 August 2015

New Funding support for Digital Public Library of America facilitates a push to serve all 50 states by 2017!

It’s always nice to read about how Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) keeps growing! Digital Public Library of America makes push to serve all 50 states by 2017 with $3.4 million from the Sloan and Knight foundations.

This is a wonderful resource. It’s unlikely that you will find your ancestor listed and you will likely gain some historical context for the period of time during which they lived or the community they lived in!

Share your best find from DPLA.

Editor’s Note: More posts about DPLA.

+ Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Continues to Expand (2015)

+ Digital Public Library Launches TODAY (2013)

+ Digital Public Library of America -- 1st Plenary Meeting, 21 October, National Archives (DC) (2011)

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25 February 2015

Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Continues to Expand

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) continues to expand!

DPLA welcomes four new Service Hubs: Tennessee, Maryland, Maine, and the Caribbean. The notification goes into some detail about what entities are involved with these new hubs; often several different archives as part of a partnership/consortium.

There is a map at the bottom of this announcement showing Service Hubs, Service Hub partner states, Hubs in active development and 2015 applicants.

The collection currently includes over 8 million items from libraries, archives, and museums.

Want to learn more about this great resource, check out the Tutorials & Introductory Videos page. This gives you perspective on the project as well as some helpful information about how to best access the available collected and growing history of America.

As always, do not assume that you will only find information in repositories located in the same geographic location of your locale of interest. I searched on “Wake County” and came up with a list of materials from local institutions and also from institutions in Boston (MA), NYC, MD, VA, UT, SC and other locations! In the past, it would have been very hard to identify, never mind visit, these out-of-state repositories for information about Wake County (NC).

"Wake County" NC records are found in many repositories outside of NC -- I bet the same holds true for whatever locale you are researching!

Sometimes it almost feels like so many neat collections of records and so little time!

There will be another call for DPLA Hubs this June (2015). If your state is currently not represented, this could be an opportunity for them to join this vibrant growing online digital library.

Editor’s note: Previous Upfront with NGS posts about DPLA ...

+ (2013) Digital Public Library Launches TODAY

+ (2012) Making local history digital, searchable and accessible -- Seven pilot sites join national digital library project

+ (2011) Digital Public Library of America -- 1st Plenary Meeting, 21 October, National Archives (DC)

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18 April 2013

Digital Public Library Launches TODAY

[UPDATED 18 April 2013 9PM EST]

Link for Digital Public Library of America is now live, here, http://dp.la/!!!

Rest of original article now follows ...

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Today the Digital Public Library of America will launch live at noon EST. Unfortunately, due to the recent tragedy in Boston in front of the Boston Public Library (where the gala launch was to take place), the scheduled events will not occur though an event is being planned for the fall.

Shortly after it goes live, I’ll provide comments to this post with any additional news.

Once you get to take a peak, please do post comments about what you found -- the neat, the bizarre, the helpful and the things that made you shout out loud!

Upfront with NGS previously wrote about this initiative in Making local history digital, searchable and accessible -- Seven pilot sites join national digital library project

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