Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Receives New Two-Year $622,000 Grant From Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

From DPLA:

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is pleased to announce a new $622,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to strengthen and expand its national cultural heritage network and platform. DPLA’s cultural heritage aggregation program has been its signature achievement since launching in 2013, making over 34 million items—photographs, maps, news footage, oral histories, manuscript documents, artwork, and more—from 4,000 libraries, museums, and archives across the country freely discoverable to all.

The new two-year grant from the Mellon Foundation will enable DPLA to support the current and future activities and priorities of its national network and continue to make their materials available to everyone. DPLA will work with its partners to develop new services and tools to support the needs of the diverse institutions in our cultural heritage network; build new partnerships to ensure that every institution in the country has a pathway to contribute materials to DPLA; promote the use of DPLA’s rich collections by learners of all stripes; and continue to work with our members to advance our shared goals of increasing access to our nation’s digital collections.

“This renewed funding from the Mellon Foundation will help position DPLA for long-term success,” said John Bracken, Executive Director of DPLA. “We will build on DPLA’s founding principles and core work, broaden our impact, and adapt to our partners’ evolving needs in the Digital Age.

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