New collaborative effort to develop a national digital ebooks platform for libraries announced | DPLA

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Summary:

"The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), The New York Public Library (NYPL), and LYRASIS are pleased to announce a new collaboration to help provide all public libraries with a free, open, library-controlled platform for managing their ebook and audiobook services....

The DPLA Exchange (https://exchange.dp.la), launched in 2017 and now providing access to over 300,000 titles including thousands of openly-licensed works, offers a new model for a library-centered marketplace for ebooks and audiobooks. ..."

Link:

https://dp.la/news/new-collaborative-effort-to-develop-a-national-digital-ebooks-platform-for-libraries-announced

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Tags:

oa.new oa.dpla oa.books oa.libraries oa.usa oa.nypl oa.libraries.public oa.academic_led oa.platforms oa.infrastructure

Date tagged:

05/13/2019, 11:16

Date published:

05/13/2019, 07:16