The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) formally launched last week during DPLAfest. Ryan Cordell (Northeastern University) wrote a recap of the event, which included announcements of a $1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for public libraries training; the addition of three more service hubs in New York, Texas, and North Carolina; and the DPLA Bookshelf for browsing DPLA’s collection of over one million books (DPLA currently has over 5 million total items in its collection). Open notes from the DPLAfest sessions are available, and the recorded video streams will be available later in the week.
