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vcard"><caption class="infobox-title fn org">Digital Public Library of America</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image logo"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Digital_Public_Library_of_America_-_Logo.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Digital_Public_Library_of_America_-_Logo.png/220px-Digital_Public_Library_of_America_-_Logo.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="79" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Digital_Public_Library_of_America_-_Logo.png/330px-Digital_Public_Library_of_America_-_Logo.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Digital_Public_Library_of_America_-_Logo.png/440px-Digital_Public_Library_of_America_-_Logo.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="180" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Abbreviation</th><td class="infobox-data nickname">DPLA</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data note">April 18, 2013</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Nonprofit_organization" title="Nonprofit organization">Nonprofit</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Taxpayer_Identification_Number" title="Taxpayer Identification Number">Tax ID no.</a> </div></th><td class="infobox-data">46-1160948</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Legal status</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/501(c)(3)" class="mw-redirect" title="501(c)(3)">501(c)(3)</a> project</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Boston,_Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston, Massachusetts">Boston, Massachusetts</a>, US</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Executive director</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Bracken_(digital_executive)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Bracken (digital executive) (page does not exist)">John Bracken</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://dp.la/">dp<wbr />.la</a></span> <span class="mw-valign-text-top noprint" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2944483#P856" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Digital Public Library of America</b> (<b>DPLA</b>) is a US project aimed at providing public access to digital holdings in order to create a large-scale public <a href="/wiki/Digital_library" title="Digital library">digital library</a>. It officially launched on April 18, 2013, after two-and-a-half years of development.<sup id="cite_ref-O'Leary,_M._2013_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-O'Leary,_M._2013-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Overview">Overview</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Digital_Public_Library_of_America&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Overview"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The DPLA is a discovery tool, or <a href="/wiki/Union_catalog" title="Union catalog">union catalog</a>, for <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" title="Public domain">public domain</a> and openly licensed content held by the United States' archives, libraries, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions.<sup id="cite_ref-O'Leary,_M._2013_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-O'Leary,_M._2013-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was started by <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Berkman_Center_for_Internet_%26_Society" class="mw-redirect" title="Berkman Center for Internet & Society">Berkman Center for Internet & Society</a> in 2010, with financial support from the <a href="/wiki/Alfred_P._Sloan_Foundation" title="Alfred P. Sloan Foundation">Alfred P. Sloan Foundation</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and has subsequently received funding from several foundations and government agencies, including the US <a href="/wiki/National_Endowment_for_the_Humanities" title="National Endowment for the Humanities">National Endowment for the Humanities</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation" title="Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation">Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It "aims to unify such disparate sources as the <a href="/wiki/Library_of_Congress" title="Library of Congress">Library of Congress</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Internet_Archive" title="Internet Archive">Internet Archive</a>, various academic collections, and presumably any other collection that would be meaningful to include. ... They have yet to ... decide such issues as how near to the present their <a href="/wiki/Library_catalog" title="Library catalog">catalog</a> will come. There is an ongoing dispute regarding so-called '<a href="/wiki/Orphan_works" class="mw-redirect" title="Orphan works">orphan works</a>' and other questions of copyright."<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="The date of the event predicted near this tag has passed. (January 2016)">needs update</span></a></i>]</sup> <a href="/wiki/John_Palfrey" title="John Palfrey">John Palfrey</a>, co-director of the Berkman Center, stated in 2011: "We aspire to establish a system whereby all Americans can gain access to information and knowledge in digital formats in a manner that is 'free to all.' It is by no means a plan to replace libraries, but rather to create a common resource for libraries and patrons of all types.”<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The DPLA links service hubs, including twelve major state and regional digital libraries or library collaborations, as well as sixteen content hubs that maintain a one-to-one relationship with DPLA.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Banned_Book_Club">The Banned Book Club</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Digital_Public_Library_of_America&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: The Banned Book Club"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In July 2023, in response to the considerable number of <a href="/wiki/2021%E2%80%932023_book_banning_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="2021–2023 book banning in the United States">books banned or challenged</a> in the United States, the DPLA launched The Banned Book Club.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The online resource allows readers to check out <a href="/wiki/Book_censorship" title="Book censorship">books banned</a> by local libraries. The service uses <a href="/wiki/Global_Positioning_System" title="Global Positioning System">GPS</a> to determine a user's location and allows them to freely access the exact books that have been banned in their local area.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In May 2024, The Banned Book Club started a new social media campaign called, The Banned Book of the Week, where their curation team will select a new title every week to post on various social media applications. <sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> John S. Bracken, the executive director of the DPLA, said they created The Banned Book Club to ensure every American has access to books they want to read: "Today book bans are one of the greatest threats to our freedom".<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Board_of_directors">Board of directors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Digital_Public_Library_of_America&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Board of directors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In September 2012, an inaugural <a href="/wiki/Board_of_Directors" class="mw-redirect" title="Board of Directors">Board of Directors</a> was appointed to guide the DPLA: Cathy Casserly, CEO of <a href="/wiki/Creative_Commons" title="Creative Commons">Creative Commons</a>; <a href="/wiki/Paul_Courant" title="Paul Courant">Paul Courant</a>, Dean of Libraries and Professor of Information at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Michigan" title="University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a>; Laura DeBonis, Former Director of Library Partnerships for <a href="/wiki/Google_Book_Search" class="mw-redirect" title="Google Book Search">Google Book Search</a>; Luis Herrera, City Librarian for <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a>; and <a href="/wiki/John_Palfrey" title="John Palfrey">John Palfrey</a>, Head of School at <a href="/wiki/Phillips_Academy_Andover" class="mw-redirect" title="Phillips Academy Andover">Phillips Academy Andover</a>, who served as board chairman.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2015, Palfrey was succeeded as chairman by Amy Ryan of the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Public_Library" title="Boston Public Library">Boston Public Library</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jennifer_8._Lee" title="Jennifer 8. Lee">Jennifer 8. Lee</a> became a board member.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Dan_Cohen_(academic)" title="Dan Cohen (academic)">Daniel J. Cohen</a> was appointed as the founding Executive Director in March 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-Enis_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Enis-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Digital_Public_Library_of_America&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2012_Project_Steering_Committee">2012 Project Steering Committee</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Digital_Public_Library_of_America&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 2012 Project Steering Committee"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A steering committee led the planning phase of the DPLA initiative from inception through its launch in 2013. Members of the project's Steering Committee included Harvard University's <a href="/wiki/Robert_Darnton" title="Robert Darnton">Robert Darnton</a>, Maura Marx, and <a href="/wiki/John_Palfrey" title="John Palfrey">John Palfrey</a>; <a href="/wiki/Paul_Courant" title="Paul Courant">Paul Courant</a> of <a href="/wiki/University_of_Michigan" title="University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carla_Hayden" title="Carla Hayden">Carla Hayden</a> then of Baltimore's <a href="/wiki/Enoch_Pratt_Free_Library" title="Enoch Pratt Free Library">Enoch Pratt Free Library</a> and subsequently the <a href="/wiki/Librarian_of_Congress" title="Librarian of Congress">Librarian of Congress</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_J._Henry" title="Charles J. Henry">Charles J. Henry</a> of the US <a href="/wiki/Council_on_Library_and_Information_Resources" title="Council on Library and Information Resources">Council on Library and Information Resources</a>, Luis Herrera of <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Public_Library" title="San Francisco Public Library">San Francisco Public Library</a>, <a href="/wiki/Susan_Hildreth" class="mw-redirect" title="Susan Hildreth">Susan Hildreth</a> of the US government <a href="/wiki/Institute_of_Museum_and_Library_Services" title="Institute of Museum and Library Services">Institute of Museum and Library Services</a> (who stepped down from the Steering Committee to avoid a conflict of interest related to funding from IMLS), <a href="/wiki/Brewster_Kahle" title="Brewster Kahle">Brewster Kahle</a>, Michael A. Keller of Stanford University, <a href="/wiki/Carl_Malamud" title="Carl Malamud">Carl Malamud</a>, consultant <a href="/wiki/Deanna_B._Marcum" title="Deanna B. Marcum">Deanna B. Marcum</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jerome_McGann" title="Jerome McGann">Jerome McGann</a>, Dwight McInvaill of <a href="/wiki/Georgetown_County,_South_Carolina" title="Georgetown County, South Carolina">Georgetown County</a> Library in South Carolina, Peggy Rudd of the <a href="/wiki/Texas_State_Library_and_Archives_Commission" title="Texas State Library and Archives Commission">Texas State Library and Archives Commission</a>, Amy Ryan of the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Public_Library" title="Boston Public Library">Boston Public Library</a>, <a href="/wiki/David_Spadafora" title="David Spadafora">David Spadafora</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Newberry_Library" title="Newberry Library">Newberry Library</a> in Chicago, and Doron Weber of the Sloan Foundation.<sup id="cite_ref-steering-04-2012_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-steering-04-2012-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Others working on the project included <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a>'s <a href="/wiki/David_Weinberger" title="David Weinberger">David Weinberger</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Critiques">Critiques</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Digital_Public_Library_of_America&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Critiques"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Critiques of the project during its planning phase included its vagueness, lack of internal cohesion, potentially redundant overlap with similar efforts (such as <a href="/wiki/Project_Gutenberg" title="Project Gutenberg">Project Gutenberg</a>), and potential to redirect financial support away from existing <a href="/wiki/Public_libraries" class="mw-redirect" title="Public libraries">public libraries</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It has been suggested that in contrast to the brick-and-mortar public library, a digital public library may not be suitable for providing adult <a href="/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States" title="Literacy in the United States">literacy</a> training or fostering young <a href="/wiki/Child_development#Cognitive/intellectual" title="Child development">children's cognitive development</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Concern that the project would harm funding for traditional public libraries was acknowledged in the statement of Peggy Rudd, a member of the Steering Committee, that "the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies passed a resolution at their May 11, 2011 meeting asking the steering committee to reconsider the name Digital Public Library of America, fearing that the inclusion of the word 'public' would have the unintended consequence of giving local governments the excuse to reduce public library funding".<sup id="cite_ref-Planning_the_Digital_Public_Library_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Planning_the_Digital_Public_Library-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Projects_discussed_in_planning_phase">Projects discussed in planning phase</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Digital_Public_Library_of_America&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Projects discussed in planning phase"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Participants in the planning phase of the DPLA established a publicly accessible <a href="/wiki/Wiki" title="Wiki">wiki</a><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which outlines "workstreams" ("Audience and Participation", "Content and Scope", "Financial/Business Models", "Governance", "Legal Issues," "Technical Aspects") and corresponding listserves. A proposed future project of the DPLA is the idea of the <a href="/wiki/Scannebago" title="Scannebago">Scannebago</a>, a mobile scanning unit that would travel the United States in order to digitize and curate local historical materials.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a> staff, led by project's managing director Maura Marx and principal investigator <a href="/wiki/John_Palfrey" title="John Palfrey">John Palfrey</a>, coordinated a broad-based team that built the DPLA's digital library platform, which launched on April 18, 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In June 2013, the DPLA announced a partnership with <a href="/wiki/HathiTrust" title="HathiTrust">HathiTrust</a> to provide access to the latter's digital materials.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Digital_Public_Library_of_America&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/DigitalNZ" title="DigitalNZ">DigitalNZ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Europeana" title="Europeana">Europeana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internet_Public_Library" title="Internet Public Library">Internet Public Library</a> (1995-2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miami-Dade_Public_Library_System#Digital_Collections" title="Miami-Dade Public Library System">Miami-Dade Public Library System Digital Collections</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stanford_Digital_Library_Project" title="Stanford Digital Library Project">Stanford Digital Library Project</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trove" title="Trove">Trove</a>, the Australian equivalent</li> <li><a href="/wiki/World_Digital_Library" title="World Digital Library">World Digital Library</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Digital_Public_Library_of_America&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output 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