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Two more reasons for Library Outposts: the DPLA and YouMedia Learning Labs
In 2007-2008 I worked on a public library service model project called the Library Outpost. The project anticipated the mass move from print information to electronic information that has become a vivid reality as Amazon reports that it now sells more electronic books than physical books. The Outpost is a digital hub, offering a public [...]
Designing a DPLA for everyone.
“Words divide, images unite.” This is the best-known quote from Otto Neurath, designer, activist, economist and social scientist. Neurath directed graphic designer Gerd Arntz and others in the 1930s and 1940s in the development of a universal pictorial language called Isotype. Neurath’s vision for Isotype was a language made entirely of pictures that could bridge [...]
A suggested approach for the Digital Public Library of America
As most PLA blog readers are probably aware, the folks at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society have assembled “a large and diverse group of stakeholders to define the scope, architecture, costs, and administration for a proposed Digital Public Library of America”. There’s been a lot of listserv discussion, and the Library City blog [...]
