DPLAFest 2019 Recap

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…

Getting started with building a Pennsylvania DPLA Hub

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…)