{"id":4723,"date":"2015-06-26T10:01:58","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T14:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=4723"},"modified":"2015-07-07T15:04:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T19:04:31","slug":"digital-public-library-of-america-makes-push-to-serve-all-50-states-by-2017-with-3-4-million-from-the-sloan-and-knight-foundations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=4723","title":{"rendered":"Digital Public Library of America makes push to serve all 50 states by 2017 with $3.4 million from the Sloan and Knight foundations"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) <\/a>is on the way to connecting online collections from coast to coast by 2017 \u2013 an effort boosted by a new $3.4 million investment, comprising $1.9 million from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation<\/a> and $1.5 million from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation<\/a>. These two new awards, coupled with significant earlier support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the National Endowment for the Humanities, will allow DPLA to open new Service Hubs that provide a way for all cultural heritage organizations across the country to connect through one national collection.<\/p>\n

The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America\u2019s libraries, archives and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. DPLA provides public access to more than 10 million items \u2013 including the written word plus works of art and culture \u2013 from 1,600 institutions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Sloan and Knight foundations have been such generous contributors to DPLA\u2019s success, from our planning phase to the rapid build-out of our national network,\u201d said Dan Cohen, executive director of the Digital Public Library of America. \u201cWith these major grants, we will be able to bring online 16 new states, and approach completion of that network.\u201d<\/p>\n

This series of investments represents a significant milestone in the development and growth of DPLA\u2019s Service Hubs<\/a>. These Services Hubs are state or regional digital collaboratives that host, aggregate or otherwise bring together digital objects from libraries, archives, museums and other cultural heritage institutions in their state or region. At the library\u2019s launch in 2013, DPLA represented a collaborative of 16 major partners, covering nine states. The number has since doubled to more than 20 states, and is on the way to 50 in the next two years. As thousands of digital collections have been brought together through DPLA\u2019s platform, fascinating new projects and tools using America\u2019s cultural heritage have emerged, including curated exhibitions on historical topics and eras<\/a>, dynamic visualizations and other cutting-edge apps<\/a>, community engagement opportunities<\/a> at an international scale, and much more.<\/p>\n

These new grants will accelerate the growth of the Hubs program so that all collections and item types in America can easily be a part of DPLA. The Sloan Foundation\u2019s $1.9 million award will build on its continued support since DPLA\u2019s launch to establish Service Hubs in eight uncovered states and to further explore how it might address e-books in the collection.<\/a> The Knight Foundation\u2019s $1.5 million award will facilitate the expansion of the DPLA\u2019s hub network in another eight states where Knight Foundation invests.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are delighted to continue our founding support of DPLA with this $1.9 million grant to facilitate the completion of a nationwide Service Hub network\u2014a unique state-by-state approach to aggregating and sharing the digital record of America\u2019s cultural heritage\u2014and to help pilot a modern ebook distribution system for libraries,\u201d said Doron Weber, Vice President Programs and Program Director at the Sloan Foundation. \u201cDPLA represents an historic, non-commercial, grass-roots network to collect, curate, innovate and disseminate a comprehensive catalog of every form of digital knowledge for the benefit of all under the highest standards of quality, stewardship and open access, and Sloan is proud to be a small part of this great undertaking with many wonderful and generous partners such as the Knight Foundation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAn informed and engaged public is a prerequisite of American democracy. Libraries \u2013 be they physical or digital \u2013 play a fundamental role in encouraging people to know more about and become involved in the places where they live. DPLA brings to life the unique items locked away in our nations libraries and archives while providing an invaluable opportunity to bring this information into peoples lives and homes \u2013 better connecting them to each other and their communities,\u201d said Jorge Martinez, vice president and chief technology officer at Knight Foundation, which also announced today that in 2016 it will host an international call for ideas on innovating libraries, the second Knight News Challenge on Libraries.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith this gracious, continued support from Sloan and Knight, we can continue to focus on our largest strategic effort, which is to expand the DPLA network and provide an on-ramp for all states to participate,\u201d said Emily Gore, DPLA\u2019s director of content. \u201cBy building out DPLA\u2019s coverage of state and regional Service Hubs, new communities and organizations from across the country will have access to essential 21st century services and programs, further enriching the scale and availability of our shared national cultural heritage online.\u201d<\/p>\n

To find out more about DPLA\u2019s efforts towards completing the map of state-based Service Hubs, in addition to other significant initiatives, read the DPLA\u2019s three-year strategic plan<\/a>, published in January 2015.<\/p>\n

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About the Digital Public Library of America<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Digital Public Library of America (http:\/\/dp.la<\/a>) brings together the riches of America\u2019s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. It strives to contain the full breadth of human expression, including the written word, works of art and culture, records of America\u2019s heritage, and the efforts and data of science. DPLA\u2019s ever-expanding collection includes over 10 million items from 1,600 institutions across the United States.<\/p>\n

About the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Sloan Foundation is a philanthropic, not-for-profit grantmaking institution based in New York. Established in 1934 by Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., then-president and chief executive officer of General Motors, the foundation makes grants in support of original research and education in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and economics. For more, visit sloan.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

About the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation<\/strong><\/p>\n

Knight Foundation supports transformational ideas that promote quality journalism, advance media innovation, engage communities and foster the arts. We believe that democracy thrives when people and communities are informed and engaged. For more, visit\u00a0knightfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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*This announcement was originally posted on DPLA’s site at\u00a0\u00a0DPLA Updates<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is on the way to connecting online collections from coast to coast by 2017 \u2013 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 … <\/p>\n

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