Talking About a Digital Public Library of America - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education

"In October 2010, Robert Darnton, the historian and university librarian at Harvard, talked to Wired Campus about the possibility of building what was then being described as a National Digital Library. Since then, Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, with money from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, has stepped into the role of coordinating plans for what’s now being designated a Digital Public Library of America. The planning has a public component as well: The Berkman Center has set up a wiki to which anyone can contribute...."