The Digital Public Library of America: An Introduction
Channel: digpublib
Date: 2013-10-29

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) strives to contain the full breadth of human expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America's heritage, to the efforts and data of science. Since launching in April 2013, it has aggregated millions of items from thousands of institutions. The DPLA is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit. You can find out more at http://dp.la/.

This video was originally aired at the first annual DPLAfest, which took place on October 24-25, 2013 in Boston, MA. You can find more video and media from the first DPLAfest at http://dp.la/info/get-involved/events/dplafest2013/

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Music: Podington Bear "Going Forward, Looking Back" and "Proliferate"

Creative Commons and Public Domain images and footage courtesy of the Prelinger Archives at Archive.org

Additional footage and images courtesy of the Harvard University Library, Harvard Museum of Natural History, San Francisco Public Library, University of Illinois at Chicago Library, J Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah, Boston Public Library, Simmons College Library, Fiske Public Library

Video created by Daniel Dennis Jones at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University

Additional footage from Naomi Ture, Andrea Peterson, Brandon Bloch, & Jeff Goldenson

Original art from Abel M. Charrow

Licensed under a CC-NC-BY license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/