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Archivist of the United States on Digital Public Library of America Plenary

"Archivist of the United States (he's also a librarian!) and host of the DPLA Plenary (at took place at "his house"), David Ferriero, has blogged a brief item about the event on his AOTUS blog.

 

On Friday more than 300 government leaders, librarians, technologist, makers, students, and others interested members of the public “occupied” the National Archives to share their visions for the DPLA. The Sloan and Arcadia Foundations announced $5m in additional funding for the Project. Europeana, the European Digital Library, announced its intention of collaborating on interoperability among libraries, museum, and archives in the United States and Europe. And David Weinberger announced that his “head and heart are exploding to interoperate!”

A series of nine Beta Sprint demonstration presented possible DPLA prototypes. I am especially proud of the one done collaboratively by the National Archives, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Library of Congress. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to seamlessly search across all three collections?!"

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Libraries Are Powerful Partners

Libraries Are Powerful Partners | The Information Professional | Scoop.it

By Bobbi Newman: > follow-up from Annual ALA conference in Anaheim.

"Libraries are Powerful Partners. Now start acting like it.

Powerful partners:

contribute
share
bring something to the table
show up at the party even when they aren’t the belle of the ball
realize that there are many stakeholders
offer support for initiatives and ideas they didn’t think of
are not defensive or hostile
are team players even when they can’t be leaders
contribute to the success of others
don’t insist on doing things “my way” "


Via Trudy Raymakers
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