Into the Driver's Seat

by Leila Meyer

"The University of Southern California (USC) Libraries has partnered with the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) as a content hub and has contributed more than 250,000 items from its own digital library to the DPLA.

"The DPLA, which launched in April, provides scholars, students, and public researchers from around the world with a single point of access to photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, videos, and other items from the country's libraries, archives, and museums. The DPLA contains more than 2.8 million items, and the addition of USC Libraries' collections more than quadruples the DLPA's number of items related to the history of Los Angeles and Southern California.

“USC Libraries have such rich and deep collections, and they are at the forefront of digitizing and preserving an incredible range of materials,” said Dan Cohen, executive director of DLPA, in a prepared statement. “It is wonderful to welcome USC Libraries as a content hub and to add their unique subject strengths to ours.”