List: hbcu-lib@lists.hbculibraries.org
From: Fayoyin, MaryJo
Digital Public Library of America
Mon, Oct 31, 2011 1:44 PM
The Sloan Foundation and Arcadia Foundation are contributing a total of $5M in funding to support a two-year grassroots project to build a detailed workplan for a national digital library.
John Palfrey, Harvard Law Professor and Chair of the DPLA Steering Committee, described the concept of a digital public library.