Now Live! Digital Public Library of America (#DPLA) Launches The Banned Book Club. It’s Mission: “To Provide Anyone Who is in a Library That Has Banned a Book Access to the Digital Version For Free” https://www.infodocket.com/2023/07/20/now-live-digital-public-library-of-america-dpla-launches-the-banned-book-club-its-mission-to-provide-anyone-who-is-in-a-library-that-has-banned-a-book-access-to-the-digital-version-for-free/ #libraries #bookbans

While we work to undo #BookBans, at least there's software to work around them.
https://lithub.com/the-banned-books-club-is-an-e-reader-app-that-can-get-you-over-the-firewall/

"If you’re after a particular title by Toni Morrison or Margaret Atwood, you might find that it’s available in Georgia, and effectively banned next door in Florida. A new [app] from the Digital Public Library of America (#DPLA), launched in concert with the #PalaceProject,…uses GPS-enabled geotargeting to determine which #books are not available in a given area."

Now Live! Digital Public Library of America (#DPLA) Launches The Banned Book Club. It’s Mission: “To Provide Anyone Who is in a Library That Has Banned a Book Access to the Digital Version For Free” https://www.infodocket.com/2023/07/20/now-live-digital-public-library-of-america-dpla-launches-the-banned-book-club-its-mission-to-provide-anyone-who-is-in-a-library-that-has-banned-a-book-access-to-the-digital-version-for-free/ #libraries #bookbans

Digital Public #Library of America (#DPLA) Announces the Launch of a New Independent Author Catalog in Palace Marketplace Featuring More than 200,000 Titles from #Smashwords and #Draft2Digital & More News Headlines https://www.infodocket.com/2023/02/09/product-launch-clarivate-adds-preprint-citation-index-to-the-web-of-science-preprint-newscomp-facilitating-diverse-news-reading-through-comparative-annotation-and-more-news-headlines/

Great project from #DPLA, #Wikipedia, and the #Sloan_Foundation.
https://dp.la/news/dpla-to-make-cultural-treasures-freely-available-on-wikipedia-with-new-sloan-foundation-support

"A $750,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to the Digital Public Library of America will fuel a multi-year effort to connect America’s #CulturalHeritage institutions with Wikipedia…This [project will] make millions of cultural treasures from hundreds of American #libraries, #archives, and #museums freely available online."

#OpenAccess, #GLAM

Digital Public Library of American (#DPLA) Announces $750,000 Grant From Sloan Foundation to “Make Cultural Treasures Freely Available on #Wikipedia” https://www.infodocket.com/2023/01/04/digital-public-library-of-american-dpla-announces-750000-grant-from-sloan-foundation-to-make-cultural-treasures-freely-available-on-wikipedia/