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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailEndCompose">Hello Everyone! Apologies for the delay in the MeL Minute—you’ll get 2 this week!?—I was immersed in 3 back-to-back conferences last week!?!<o:p></o:p></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose">Are you familiar with the
</span><a href="https://dp.la/"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose">Digital Public Library of America</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"> (DPLA)? If not, in a nutshell, it is a national
digital library freely available to anyone with Internet access containing books, images, historic records and audiovisual materials. First talked about in the 1990s and with serious planning occurring in 2010, the DPLA officially launched in April 2013.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose">Michigan’s “service hub responsibilities are shared by the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Wayne State University, Western Michigan University, the Midwest Collaborative for
Library Services and the Library of Michigan. Collections shared with DPLA cover topics including the history of the Motor City, historically significant American cookbooks, and Civil War diaries from the Midwest.”
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose">So, what does this mean for you and your patrons? Plenty. It’s collaboration on a grand scale that supports educational uses through sharing
</span><a href="https://dp.la/primary-source-sets"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose">curated primary source sets</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose">, support of
</span><a href="https://dp.la/info/education/national-history-day/"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose">National History Day</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose">,
</span><a href="https://dp.la/info/about/projects/public-library-partnerships/"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose">Public Library Partnerships Project</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose">,
and more. The Michigan content totals a little more than 40,000 items from the initial five institutions working on the project. This will grow as we move forward adding content and additional organizations to the Michigan Service Hub. When you have a chance,
take a look at the </span><a href="https://dp.la/"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose">DPLA</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"> site – you won’t be disappointed.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">MeL databases are available to Michigan residents or Michigan library access only.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Deb Renee Biggs, MA AMLS</b><br>
Library Consultant & Michigan eLibrary Coordinator<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Library of Michigan/Michigan Department of Education<o:p></o:p></p>
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