A detail from the preliminary model for the home page of
the Digital Public Library of America’s website, to be available at http://dp.la/
The National Digital Public Library Is Launched!
"The Digital Public Library of America, to be launched on April 18, is a project to make the holdings of America’s research libraries, archives, and museums available to all Americans—and eventually the world—online and free of charge…Sounds good, you might say, but wasn’t Google already providing this service? True, Google set out bravely to digitize all the books in the world, and created a database of 30 million volumes, but along the way it collided with copyright laws and a hostile suit by copyright holders.
After the court’s decision on March 23, 2011, Google’s digital library was effectively dead…But the DPLA took inspiration from Google’s bold attempt to digitize entire libraries, and it still hopes to win Google over as an ally in working for the public good…” Story from the New York Review of Books.
