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  Sloan Foundation Gives $3 Million to Wikipedia

  899 readersThe Wikimedia Foundation, the folks behind Wikipedia, announced today that they had secured a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. This grant, worth $3,000,000,was donated by Sloan as part of its Digital Information Technology program. “We are delighted to support Wikimedia in developing and sustaining its educational mission while continuously improving quality, diversity and

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  Harvard announces research/planning initiative for a “Digital Public Library of America”

  1221 readersA National Digital Public Library that Harvard Library Director, Professor Robert Darnton has been talking and writing about for many months and others (for example, TeleRead Founder David Rothman have been talking and writing about for years) will soon be the topic of a research and planning initiative that will be hosted by the Berkman

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  Digital Public Library of America “Beta Sprint” review panel announces results

  1047 readers From a DPLA Announcement: The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Steering Committee* has invited the creators of the following submissions to the DPLA Beta Sprint, an open call for code and concepts defining how the DPLA might operate, to present at the public plenary meetingtaking place on October 21, 2011 in Washington, DC: Digital Collaboration for

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  Harvard Announces Plans For Digital Public Library of America

  1687 readersHarvard University announced plans today to create a “Digital Public Library of America.” Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society will host a research and planning initiative for the new digital collection, which will be funded by the A...

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  Digital Public Library of America announces “Beta Sprint”

  1738 readers From the press release: The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Steering Committee is delighted to announce today a Beta Sprint that aims to surface innovations that could play a part in the building of a digital public library. The Beta Sprint seeks ideas, models, prototypes, technical tools, user interfaces, etc. – put forth as a

• Obama Budget Ups Funding for Library Technology

  985 readers[Press Release]Maureen Sullivan: President Obama’s Budget Gives Libraries Funding BoostToday, President Barack Obama released the budget for the 2014 fiscal year, allocating $177 million for assistance to libraries through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). Library funding will be administered by the Institute of Museum and Libraries Services (IMLS). The budget request is approximately

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  Promising DPLA debut—but please don’t confuse special-collection items, exhibits and APIs with a full-fledged ‘public library’ demo

  679 readersA caveat first. The Digital Public Library of America is evolving. What’s more, I’m a booster of the organization and of the people behind it, including the new executive director, Dan Cohen, who so decently reacted after the Boston Marathon bombings. But for now, the academic-and-hacker mindset is prevailing at the DPLA over the traditional

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  Article on ebook crunch at public libraries is a must read

  1762 readers Both at LibraryJournal.com and LibraryCity.org, I’ve reminded the Digital Public Library of America that it needs to serve public library users well, not just the academic variety. That’s been my goal since the early 1990s when I first proposed a national digital library system well integrated with local schools and public libraries. Nowadays I actually favor

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  The Ativist Lands $1.5 Million in Funding

  537 readersThe digital publisher The Atavist has secured new funding from some major Silicon Valley investors to grow its digital reading app. Check it out at The New York Times: “[the publisher] attracted $1 million of what will eventually be $1.5 million in seed money. But the real punch line? The backers include Eric E. Schmidt

• F+W Names Stacie Berger Vice President of Communications

  61 readers [Press Release] F+W Media Names Stacie Berger Vice President of Communications NEW YORK – January 24, 2013 – David Nussbaum, Chairman & CEO F+W Media, Inc., today announced the promotion of Stacie Berger from Director to Vice President of Communications. In her role, Berger manages all internal and external Communications, as well as Public Relations, for the