Knight, Sloan Award $3.4 Million to Digital Public Library of America | News | PND

"The Digital Public Library of America has announced grants totaling $3.4 million from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to connect online collections from coast to coast. A $1.9 million grant from the Sloan Foundation will enable DPLA to open new Service Hubs — state or regional digital collaboratives that host, aggregate, or otherwise bring together the digital collections of cultural heritage organizations — in eight states and further explore how the organization might expand access to e-books, while a $1.5 million grant from the Knight Foundation will facilitate the expansion of DPLA's hub network in eight additional states. DPLA currently operates Service Hubs in more than twenty states and aims to extend its coverage to all fifty states over the next two years. Launched in 2013, the organization currently provides free public access to more than ten million items from sixteen hundred libraries, archives, and museums ..."