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 ...

David Golumbia draws attention to Daniel Allington’s post, “On open access, and why it’s not the answer.” Allington raises critical issues about the open access movement and whether it meets its objectives, writing: [W]hat did its advocates (me, for example) think it was going to facilitate? And now that it’s become mainstream, does it look as ...

ALA Tech Source blog debuted the first in a series of posts excerpted from the forthcoming LITA Guide, The Comparative Guide to WordPress in Libraries. “Done in WordPress: Scholarly Publishing @ MIT Libraries” describes how MIT Libraries leverages WordPress as “an information hub on open access Scholarly Publishing @ MIT Libraries.” The post outlines the process ...

Laurie N. Taylor (Digital Humanities Librarian, University of Florida) calls attention to recent efforts by the Ohio State University Libraries to examine their digital exhibits pilot project (full report available here [docx]). Taylor notes: The report is well worth reading because it details the process, including goals, findings from the process, and next steps; this includes a ...

In a new post, Jessamyn West, librarian and author of Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide, responds to a recent article, published by the New America Foundation, about incorporating discussions of privacy into digital literacy training. West’s post highlights some of the more salient points of the article, “Joining the Surveillance Society? New Internet Users in ...

Inna Kouper has shared her summary from the second bi-annual Research Data Alliance (RDA) Plenary that took place in September in Washington, D.C. (a meeting we’ve featured previously on dh+lib). In reviewing the keynotes, she observes: This new evidential culture requires better documentation and provenance and more effective techniques of data collection, sharing and re-use. And how ...

Mark Matienzo, Digital Archivist at the Yale University Library, wrote a blog post for Yale’s Manuscripts and Archives Blog about “the importance of collaboration both within Yale and beyond about our efforts to preserve and provide access to born digital records.” Matienzo describes how he collaborated to process the born digital records in the Papers ...

In a new post, Ted Underwood discusses a paper he co-authored for the IEEE “big humanities” workshop that is now available on arXiv as a preprint. He also reviews some questions that arose after the paper was presented regarding the use of first-person narration and gender. According to Underwood, “The paper argues that the blurry mutability of genres is ...

Dot Porter has written a post sharing her experience working with the NYPL Digital Collections API . Porter explains her initial attempts, roadblocks, and solutions to batch-downloading MODS records for between 1500 and 2000 objects. (Hint: she was able to do it “with a Mac terminal and just a little bit of XSLT.”) dh+lib ReviewThis post was ...

Mark Sample has once again helpfully compiled a list of “digitally inflected” sessions taking place at the 2014 convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA), in Chicago. A few of interest to the library community: The Twenty-First-Century Library: Discovery Services versus Subject Specialists Meeting Where Students Are: Faculty-Library Collaborations and Undergraduate Research Text-nology Idea Jam: ...