BOOKS - Digital Public Library of America will launch on April 18

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), which aims to "make the holdings of America's research libraries, archives, and museums available to all Americans," will launch on April 18. The project is three years in the making. In an article at the New York Review of Books, Robert Darnton, director of the Harvard University library and a member of the DPLA's committee, writes: "To make it work, we must think big and begin small. At first, the D ...

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