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Webinar: DPLA and Ebooks: Expanding Access through Collaboration

 

We are passing this along from DPLA, so you can check out this webinar.

Note that MN’s own Minitex Director is one of the speakers – so you know it will be good!!

DPLA and Ebooks: Expanding Access through Collaboration

Date: February 6, 2019 at 2:00PM Eastern Time

Presenters:
Micah May, DPLA Ebooks Consultant
Michele Kimpton, Director of Business Development and Senior Strategist
Luke Swarthout, Director of Digital Policy, The New York Public Library
Michael Blackwell, Director of St. Mary’s County Library (MD)
Valerie Horton, Director of Minitex

Join DPLA staff and partners for a detailed overview of DPLA’s ebooks initiatives and how this work advances the field and supports libraries. The session will introduce the DPLA Exchange, Open Bookshelf, and SimplyE and the roles of key partners including The New York Public Library and LYRASIS. DPLA Exchange pilot partners and SimplyE implementation partners will provide insight from the field about their experiences and goals in adopting these tools and services.

Priority registration is currently open to DPLA Member Hubs. Join our mailing list or follow @dpla on Twitter for registration updates. 

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ECRL and GRRL highlighted by MN Digital Library

mdl-logoRecently, the Minnesota Digital Library (MDL) announced recent exciting contributions by both East Central Regional Library and Great River Regional Library. Congratulations to both in this noteworthy accomplishment!

ECRL: New contribution to Minnesota Reflections

According to Minnesota Digital Library News, The Kids Design Glass project was funded by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Fund and began with a summer reading program art contest. The contest was open to kids ages 5 to 10. One drawing was chosen from each of East Central Library’s 14 branches. The winning drawings were transformed into three-dimensional blown-glass sculptures by Anthony Michaud-Scorza of Cambridge, Minnesota. This project is fully documented in Minnesota Reflections with scans of the original 14 drawings, the artist statements, photographs of the sculpture, and a short video of each sculpture rotating on a turntable. View the collection here

GRRL: New MDL contributor

The Great River Regional Library (GRRL) was one of the participants in the recently completed MDL/DPLA Public Library Partnerships Project. According to Minnesota Digital Library News, “…we were looking for content on the history of libraries in Minnesota and GRRL came through with a project that included exterior and interior images of the St. Cloud Public Library’s original Carnegie building, built in 1902 and torn down in 1981. It was great to preserve these pictures of a “Lost Minnesota” structure. GRRL also contributed images of St. Cloud’s second library building, in use from 1979 to 2009, the Great River Regional Library Bookmobile, the Little Falls Public Library, and the Royalton Community Library. View the images here.

Two of the images were used in the DPLA’s online exhibition, “A History of US Public Libraries,” in the section on Carnegie libraries.”

 

 

 

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DPLA’s public domain GIF-IT-UP contest is back!

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Last year we shared the GIF-IT-UP contest and its winners. GIF-IT-UP is back:

“GIF IT UP 2015 is here! The rules are simple: find openly licensed and public domain material from the DPLA, DigitalNZ, Trove and Europeana create an animated GIF, and be in to win nifty prizes. Entries are open from 12 October until November 21. Click here for all the details. Please note this page contains multiple flashing images, which loop continuously, and a continuous scroll.”

Need inspiration? Check out their tumblr page. Need a tutorial? Check out this one on how to make a GIF.

 

 

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DPLA's public domain GIF contest

GIF-IT-UP-Banner-3-1The Digital Public Library of America (along with DigitalNZ) recently announced a GIF-IT-UP contest.  Below is an invitation to participate in an international competition to create the best animated GIF, reusing public domain and openly licensed content: http://dp.la/info/gif-it-up

Need inspiration? Check out more examples from Kevin Weir.

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Library as a Platform

Colorful InformationRecently, Simmons College SLIS wrote a blog post around the idea of libraries as platforms. Platforms, defined by David Weinberger in his Library Journal article, are “about developing knowledge and community, and would:

  • Be open to all
  • Give access to every scrap of information it has, including its digital content, but also metadata about that content, its usage, and the social interactions around it
  • Enable new products and services to be built by anyone with an idea
  • Integrate everything the library knows into the entire Net ecosystem”

Weinberger continues by pointing out that in order for libraries to become platforms, they “should provide access to everything it can, including some treasures traditionally they have yet to make available,” and “enable social knowledge networks to emerge and flourish.”

One library that has taken “Library as a Platform” to heart is the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). Through an application programming interface (API), developers are able to create engaging apps or tools for discovery that utilize the DPLA data. On their developer website, the DPLA has examples and sample code that can help facilitate the process.

How are you creating a Library Platform at your library?

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