I am interested in how the Digital Public Library can be used (in your teaching, for an assignment, or in your own research) and am in search of folks who want to experiment together. Let’s explore the DPLA through multiple kinds of searching. I am interested in exploring New York State history, but am open to all kinds of topic suggestions—ballet, vaudeville, shipwrecks!   Perhaps we could work as a team to search 1 or 2 topics as deeply as we can think to do so across all the ways of searching. How would you use the content of the DPLA and its search interface for gathering historical and cultural materials and images? We all have a touch of the curator in us.  Let’s work on one another’s research areas and have a mass search of the DPLA to uncover content.  I continually find big surprises in it.

If the group wants to we can also take a look also at OpenPics Application (free via iTunes): dp.la/apps/6  to gather a personal “collection.”

Anyone who is interested in DPLA can come!

Resources:

A librarian’s guide to DPLA: resources.library.lemoyne.edu/barnello/DPLA
Howard, J. (December 3, 2013). “DPLA: Young but Well-Connected,” Chronicle of Higher Education. chronicle.com/article/Digital-Library-of-America/143489/

–Inga H. Barnello, librarian, Le Moyne College & DPLA Community Rep.