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<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47"><br>
<span class="date">September 30, 2014</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47">IMLS Press Contact</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47"><br>
202-653-4799<br>
Giuliana Bullard, <a href="mailto:gbullard@imls.gov"><span style="color:#0D6573">gbullard@imls.gov</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47">DPLA Press Contact</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47"><br>
Kenny Whitebloom, <a href="mailto:dpla@cyber.law.harvard.edu"><span style="color:#0D6573">dpla@cyber.law.harvard.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="midboldbrown" align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47">New IMLS Funding to Support the Digital Public Library of America</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47">Washington, DC</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47">—The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) announced today a $999,485 grant to the Digital
Public Library of America (DPLA) for a major expansion of its infrastructure. The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. It strives to contain
the full breadth of human expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America’s heritage, to the efforts and data of science. DPLA aims to expand this crucial realm of openly available materials, and make those riches more
easily discovered and more widely usable and used.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47">This IMLS award builds on
<a href="http://www.idevmail.net/link.aspx?l=1&d=73&mid=333802&m=2321"><span style="color:#0D6573">a 2012 IMLS grant to DPLA</span></a>. With new funding DPLA will pursue a major expansion of its service hubs network. The goal is to at least double the number
of DPLA service hubs and to use IMLS support to encourage other funders to make DPLA service hubs available to all institutions in every state in the union.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47">DPLA service hubs are state, regional, or other collaborations that host, aggregate, or otherwise bring together digital objects from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions.
State and regional hubs agree to collect content that describes their local history, but also content about the U.S. broadly and, when available, international topics. Each service hub offers its partners services that range from professional development,
digitization, metadata creation or enhancement, to hosting or metadata aggregation. They may also provide community outreach programs to increase users’ awareness of digital content of local relevance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47"> “We are proud of IMLS’s support for this important step in the expansion of the Digital Public Library of America,” said IMLS Director Susan H. Hildreth. “IMLS is committed to helping make the
rich holdings of America’s libraries, archives, and museums more accessible to all.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47">“The Digital Public Library of America and its rapidly growing community are enormously grateful to IMLS for this support, which will allow us to capitalize on what we have learned in our first
year to make substantial progress on a national digital platform in the years to come,” said Dan Cohen, DPLA’s Executive Director.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47">Since launching in April 2013, DPLA has aggregated nearly 8 million items from well over a thousand institutions. DPLA plans to make its services available to all collections-based institutions
in every state in the U.S., and to make collections freely available to students, teachers, researchers, and the general public.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47">About the Institute of Museum and Library Services
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47"><br>
The Institute of Museum and Library Services is the primary source of federal support for the nation’s
<a href="http://www.idevmail.net/link.aspx?l=2&d=73&mid=333802&m=2321"><span style="color:#0D6573">123,000 libraries</span></a> and
<a href="http://www.idevmail.net/link.aspx?l=3&d=73&mid=333802&m=2321"><span style="color:#0D6573">35,000 museums</span></a>. Our mission is to inspire libraries and museums to advance innovation, lifelong learning, and cultural and civic engagement. Our grant
making, policy development, and research help libraries and museums deliver valuable services that make it possible for communities and individuals to thrive. To learn more, visit
<a href="http://www.idevmail.net/link.aspx?l=4&d=73&mid=333802&m=2321"><span style="color:#0D6573">www.imls.gov</span></a> and follow us on
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