Digital Public Library of America Features Upper Midwest Natives - ICTMN.com

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-05-05

Summary:

"The Digital Public Library of America is now “open” to the public. It may not have four walls and a roof, but it does have more than two million items users can browse through. The DPLA is a free platform that makes a number of digital collections and archives from across the country available on one site. 'It’s not very often you get to build a new library,' says Dan Cohen, DPLA executive director, in a blog. 'It’s an incredibly rare opportunity to build something like the Digital Public Library of America—to shape a new, open portal to knowledge and wonder.' The site allows users to explore by a regular search, by place, by date, or to view whatever special exhibitions the library may be offering. Coinciding with the launch are a number of special online exhibits including History of Survivance: Upper Midwest 19th Century Native American Narratives, which focuses on telling the story of Native American survival in the Minnesota region. 'One must be particularly careful about the story being told since the narrative that largely exists is one of cultural denouement, of endings, as told by a colonizing population to its descendants,' notes the exhibit’s introduction. 'The accounts of the lives of Native Americans during the 19th century that are told by Native peoples themselves are strikingly different to those recounted in history books, movies, and all too frequently in museums.' The introduction notes that this exhibit is being 'retold through the lens of Native American survivance.'"

Link:

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/05/04/digital-public-library-america-features-upper-midwest-natives-149195

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oa.new oa.comment oa.libraries oa.museums oa.glam oa.dpla oa.archives oa.mn oa.usa.mn oa.ch

Date tagged:

05/05/2013, 08:48

Date published:

05/05/2013, 04:47