<div class="gmail_quote"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">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.<br>
<a href="http://chronicle.com/blogPost/One-Step-Closer-to-a-National/27491/" target="_blank">http://chronicle.com/blogPost/One-Step-Closer-to-a-National/27491/</a></font><div><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br>
I append the workshop statement in full below, thanks to Robert Darnton of the Harvard University Libraries.<br><br></font></div><div><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> Peter Suber<br>
<br></font></div><div><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">----------cut here----------<br><br></font></div><div><div><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">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.</font></div>
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