The Chronicle of Higher Education for October 6 mentioned a short statement
issued by the participants in a recent workshop on an OA Digital Public
Library of America.
http://chronicle.com/blogPost/One-Step-Closer-to-a-National/27491/
I append the workshop statement in full below, thanks to Robert Darnton of
the Harvard University Libraries.
Peter Suber
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Leaders from research libraries, foundations, and a variety of cultural
institutions gathered in a workshop at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced
Study on October 1-2 in order to discuss how to work together toward the
creation of a Digital Public Library of America—that is, an open,
distributed network of comprehensive online resources that would draw on the
nation’s living heritage from libraries, universities, archives, and museums
in order to educate, inform, and empower everyone in the current and future
generations.
