Dan Cohen will give the 2014 Kaplan Institute talk “Inside the Digital Public Library of America” from 2 to 3 p.m. Tuesday, March 25, in Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library. The presentation is open to the public and will be broadcast live on MediaSite.
Cohen is founding executive director of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), which is bringing together the rich resources of America’s libraries, archives and museums, and making them freely available to the world. In his talk, he will give a behind the scenes look at how the DPLA was created, how it functions as a portal and platform, what the staff is currently working on, and what’s to come for the young project and organization.