The National Digital Public Library Is Launched! by Robert Darnton | The New York Review of Books

An overview of the soon-to-launch DPLA

"The Digital Public Library of America, to be launched on April 18, is a project to make the holdings of America’s research libraries, archives, and museums available to all Americans—and eventually to everyone in the world—online and free of charge. How is that possible? In order to answer that question, I would like to describe the first steps and immediate future of the DPLA. But before going into detail, I think it important to stand back and take a broad view of how such an ambitious undertaking fits into the development of what we commonly call an information society."

The National Digital Public Library Is Launched! by Robert Darnton | The New York Review of Books