Press: “National Endowment for the Humanities gives $1M to create US digital library with Harvard help”
Digital Public Library of America 2012-08-01
Summary:
"The grant will help form a new nonprofit organization and create the technical platform to share digital content across the nation’s many public libraries and archives. Digitizing books and building a system for libraries to contribute will take years, though, and millions more dollars from private partners, said endowment chairman Jim Leach."