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April 4, 2013

Digital Public Library of America set to launch prototype

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 Public Library of America, or DPLA, will launch during a two-day event, which will include a series of events April 18 and 19 at the Boston Public Library, according to leaders of the digital library.

Read the rest of the article here. More information about the DPLA launch events can be found here.

February 22, 2013

DLG profiled by the Digital Public Library of America

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 part of their ongoing introduction to the digital hubs. Take a look:

I was glad to spend time this week searching through the collections of the Digital Library of Georgia (DLG). The DLG serves as part of the University of Georgia’s GALILEO initiative. The DLG’s services extend beyond the access it provides to the documents in its portals, and includes metadata aggregation, text encoding, scanning and digital imaging services, and the preservation of the library’s massive Georgia Newspaper Project.