This is a guest post from Ana Enriquez, Scholarly Communications Outreach Librarian at Penn State University. Last month, along with several PA Digital colleagues, I attended DPLAfest 2019. Given DPLA’s reorganization of last fall, I had some hesitation about going, but I ultimately decided it would be better to be Read more…
PA Digital Team members have recently been hard at work implementing a new aggregator to better gather and review contributor collections for exposure through the DPLA. We’re moving away from our homegrown aggregator and are adopting Combine, an application developed at Wayne State University as part of the Michigan DPLA Read more…
We received word that our Service Hub application was accepted. Stay tuned for more information and read about all four new Service Hubs, including Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin: http://dp.la/info/2015/08/28/dpla-welcomes-four-new-service-hubs-to-our-growing-network/
Pennsylvania DPLA aggregator prototype: 136,419 records from 157 collections and 29 PA institutions As part of the efforts to start building a Pennsylvania DPLA hub, we have recently completed a PA DPLA aggregator prototype: http://libcollab.temple.edu/aggregator/ It currently contains 136,419 records from 157 collections and 29 PA institutions! The prototype was Read more…
Pennsylvania Library Leaders Announce New Initiative to Increase Access to Commonwealth’s Digital Collections
Efforts to make digital collections held by Pennsylvania libraries, museums, and related cultural heritage organizations widely and freely available via the web are underway. In August 2014, a state- wide group of library leaders from the Office of Commonwealth Libraries/the State Library, Temple University, the University of Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania State University, the Free Library of Philadelphia, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, the University of Scranton, Access Pennsylvania/HSLC, the Keystone Library Network, the Interlibrary Delivery Service of Pennsylvania, Scranton Public Library, and the Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium convened to explore opportunities and interest in collaborating to this end. The first step is the appointment of the PA-DPLA Planning Group, which is working to establish a Pennsylvania hub on the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). (more…)