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Digital Public Library of America

A collection of 8,417,029 items from libraries, archives, and museums.

The DPLA planning process began in October 2010 at a meeting in Cambridge, MA. During this meeting, 40 leaders from libraries, foundations, academia, and technology projects agreed to work together to create “an open, distributed network of comprehensive online resources that would draw on the nation’s living heritage from libraries, universities, archives, and...

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scanned images, museums, archives, public libraries, academic libraries, digital libraries, special libraries
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Material Type:
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Date Added to MERLOT:
February 17, 2015
Date Modified in MERLOT:
December 14, 2016
Authors:
 
 
Submitter:
Sally Robertson
Primary Audience:
Middle School, High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional
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Language:
English
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Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States

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Sally Robertson
Sally Robertson (Librarian)
11 years ago

This is a great collection of digitized materials from libraries, museums and archives from all across America. It is accessible to anyone with access to the internet.

Time spent reviewing site: 30 min