Category: DPLA
DPLA’s Strategic Plan
DPLA (The Digital Public Library of America) has just released its Strategic Plan for 2015-2017. This is significant to us because the Digital Commonwealth in partnership with BPL is a service hub for DPLA. The DPLA plan is organized into four major initiatives: Complete the hub network so all collections and item types have an…
A Sweet Deal for Public Libraries
By Harold Smith If you work at a public library, especially if you work at a small library where opportunities for collaboration are rare and money for new projects is even rarer, then you should read about this opportunity that is now available. Here’s the deal in a nutshell. If you have an unprocessed collection,…
Public Librarian Partnership Program: First Meeting
A group of 14 public librarians gathered at the Boston Public Library on April 16, 2014 for the Public Librarian Partnership Program (PLPP). This is the first of three workshops offered by the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) to work directly with public librarians across the state to produce an exhibit of national interest from…