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RB 185: The Next Generation Library
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English - May 21, 2012 22:43 - 6.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsTechnology Education Courses berkman center web law society internet tech sociology cyberspace innovation Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
What would a digital version of your public library look like? There’s more to it than e-books and digital reading devices. Librarians, scholars, innovators, and techno-wizards are collaborating under the mantle of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) to build a next generation public library. Such a thing could incorporate one or more of many different elements: a set of physical buildings; a purely digital archive with an open API layer for coders to play around with; a full fledged digital lending library.
And when the DPLA converge on the National Archives in Washington, DC this Friday (you can check out the agenda and tune in to a livestream here) they’ll get to work out just a few of those ideas.
Today, a special report from Benjamin Naddaf-Hafrey who spoke to a few of the minds behind the DPLA.