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January 7, 2025 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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DPLA Details Its Latest Work and Looks to the Future
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) issued an end-of-2024 email newsletter titled Much Accomplished, Much More to Come. It begins with the organization’s highlighted accomplishments, including the following:- In May, DPLA celebrated a tremendous milestone: our landmark, cultural heritage aggregation program reached more than 50 million items, a testament to the work of our network of more than 6,000 institutions and partner hubs.
- Our partners received more than 2.5 billion page views in 2024. We relaunched our Wikimedia pipeline and, in two months, added more than 400,000 files to Wikimedia Commons. …
- We made over 1,300 titles that have been removed from schools and libraries available for free through the award-winning Banned Book Club, which is now available nationwide. And, we launched the Banned Book of the Week, highlighting selected titles chosen by our Curation Corps and other librarians from around the country. …
- We inaugurated IndieLib, a first-of-its-kind, one-day gathering that brought together independent publishers and librarians.
- We launched a new, groundbreaking digital ownership model that allows libraries to purchase (rather than merely license) and own in perpetuity tens of thousands of ebook and audiobook titles from dozens of independent publishers.
- With our partners at Lyrasis, we surpassed two million ebooks and audiobooks available in the Palace Marketplace and expanded the number of publishers offering library-friendly options.
Upcoming projects include the following: We’ll be launching two new programs next year. First, we will begin a program to support the work of our existing Hub partners. Second, we’ll start a fund to onboard new contributors. Both of these programs are in the early stages. We anticipate beginning to distribute funds in the second half of the year. We will continue our ingestion work throughout the year, keeping pace with our harvest schedule, which is updated here. (To learn more, you can join one of our office hours with Michael Della Bitta.) And we’ll be working to provide libraries with more alternative licensing options through the Palace Marketplace. We’ll also be adding more university presses to the Marketplace and continuing to make more titles available for digital ownership by libraries. For more information, visit the website.
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