DPLA
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), to be launched on April 18, 2013 is a project to make the holdings of America’s research libraries, archives, and museums available to all Americans—and eventually to everyone in the world—online and free of charge.
The DPLA will be a distributed system of electronic content that will make the holdings of public and research libraries, archives, museums, and historical societies available, effortlessly and free of charge, to readers located at every connecting point of the Web.
At first, the DPLA’s offering will be limited to a rich variety of collections—books, manuscripts, and works of art—that have already been digitized in cultural institutions throughout the country. Around this core it will grow, gradually accumulating material of all kinds until it will function as a national digital library.
[edit] For more information
- http://dp.la/wiki/ - DPLA wiki
- Forum thread - Discuss this here
- See also EBook Lending Libraries
