DPLAfest 2019 Wrap Up

We are so grateful to each participant, presenter, speaker, sponsor, and volunteer who helped make DPLAfest 2019 a great success. Whether you joined us in Chicago earlier this month or followed from home, we look forward to continuing to work together to advance the important and inspiring conversations we started at the fest. Re-cap what we heard or review what you missed with this one-stop guide to the news, notes, and other materials shared during DPLAfest.

News and Announcements

• New ebooks partnership announced. We were thrilled to announce a new collaborative effort to develop a national digital ebooks platform and marketplace for libraries together with partners New York Public Library and LYRASIS. Together, we are working to provide all public libraries with a free, open, library-owned platform for managing their ebook and audiobook services. Read more.

• DPLA Members Meeting. The DPLA member network gathered for its second annual meeting on April 16, 2019 prior to DPLAfest. DPLA Members, led by the Advisory and Network Councils, discussed priorities for DPLA and its cultural heritage network. View the meeting agenda and learn more about the Membership Program.

• Ran Walker wins Indie Author of the Year. Biblioboard CEO Mitchell Davis awarded author Ran Walker with the Indie Author of the Year award for his book, Daykeeper, at a reception following the DPLA Members Meeting on April 16. Read more.

Media Mentions

• Facing the Past, Strengthening the Commons: Big thoughts at DPLAfest 2019 by Carrie Smith in American Libraries
• Community Collaboration at DPLAfest 2019 by Carrie Smith in American Libraries
• This Week in Libraries, April 19, 2019: DPLA, partners, announce their next move in pursuit of a "library-controlled" e-book lending platform; Ontario proposes to cut library funding in half; and remembering Susan K. Nutter, one the greats in academic librarianship, by Andrew Albanese for Publishers Weekly
• Agnotology and Epistemological Fragmentation by danah boyd, Data & Society’s Points

Slides and Presentation Materials

If you missed a session of interest, check the session listings on the online program for slides and other presentation materials. Presenters, if you have not already shared your slides, you can do so by logging in to Sched. Learn how.

Special thanks

• LYRASIS
• Digital Library of Georgia
• OCLC
• MIT Libraries
• Duke University Libraries
• MIT Press Knowledge Futures Group
• History Channel

• Minitex
• Comcast
• Califa
• De Marque
• NoveList
• Indie Author Project
• Penguin Random House

Finally, thank you to Hoopla Communications and Members Meeting Planning Committee members Adrian Turner, Ann Hanlon, Sheila McAlister, Tara Carlisle, Jolie Graybill, Deirdre Brennan, and Jen Johnson.

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