Digital Curation Program of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is a digital library that strives to serve the public through digital collections accumulated from a wide variety of partners. Our chosen topic for the DPLA exhibit project is Perspectives on the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War remains a controversial topic of national interest, making it a topic of depth and of many perspectives. Our goals with this exhibit were to gather different perspectives of the war through personal stories, the media, presidential administrations of the war, military personnel, and the general public, including famous figures. We strove to demonstrate the variety of perspectives on the Vietnam War through a variation of digital objects and content that will be engaging for users: both black and white and color photos, videos, and audio files. Furthermore, we wanted to ensure that our digital materials are of high quality, properly documented, and easy to search and find thus all of our objects are from DPLA and are from usable original sources. This poster will describe our processes for organizational, object selection, building our exhibit, attainment of our goals, and detailed steps of our overall operation. The poster will also include details about the minor issues and bumps that occurred while reaching our final product as well as the team members’ perspectives on the project as a whole including: problems, words to for the wise, and triumphs.

How Does the Denver Public Library System Respond to its Customer's Requests for Global Information?

The interaction between globally available information and public library users is a changing one. Global information is readily available yet provider and user struggle to find efficiencies of time and resources. As a primary resource of global information the Denver Public Library (DPL) is approaching this challenge by providing changing technology to a changing user and by providing a customized approach to immigrant populations. DPL provides global information to library users through collections, programs and Internet. Internet and collections global information usage cannot be directly measured due to privacy restrictions. Only 12.5% of general user programs focus on global information. Four percent of budget serves the immigrant users. This is greater than national averages.

By-laws of the Peoria public library. Revised December, 1904.

Mode of access: Internet.

Dedicatory exercises. The Frank S. Stevens public library building.

Mode of access: Internet.

Annual report of the trustees of the Melrose Public Library.

Title from cover.

Agreement between the city of New York through the Board of Estimate and Apportionment and the Brooklyn Public Library.

Mode of access: Internet.

Bibliography of public library surveys contained in the collections of the University of Chicago Library and the Headquarters Library of the American Library Association /

Mode of access: Internet.

Catalogue of the public library of Chelsea, Mass. ...

Mode of access: Internet.

A list of the books forming the gift of Louise Chandler Moulton to the Public library of the city of Boston.

Consists of 900 volumes, used "to strengthen the Artz collection, devoted to the acquisition of rare or early editions of American and English authors, and the Galatea collection, comprising works relating in any way to the history and progress of women. Some volumes ... have been placed in the general collection of the library."

Catalogue of the Free public library of Concord, Mass., Jan. 1, 1875.

Mode of access: Internet.

Catalogue of the cuneiform tablets of the Wilberforce Eames Babylonian collection in the New York Public Library.

Mode of access: Internet.

The school use of Cleveland's Public Library.

"One of a series of bulletins on what Cleveland's public schools are doing."

Finding list of the Chicago Public Library.

Mode of access: Internet.

Annual report of the Saint Louis Public Library.

Latest issue consulted: 1976-1977.