Related writings

Some basics:

• Meet Corilee Christou, LibraryCity’s new director of library and publisher relations, by David Rothman, Nov. 9, 2016. Reach Corilee at consultc2 @ gmail com (close the spaces and add the dot betwen “gmail” and “com”).
• How the Hernandez family will benefit from two well-stocked national digital library systems and a digital library endowment,  by David Rothman, December 3, 2013 (referenced in an Information Today commentary scheduled for early 2017).
• Why We Need a National Digital Library Endowment, by Jim Duncan and David Rothman, in Education Week, May 12, 2015.
• The K-12 and economic cases for a national digital library endowment, the newest version of the evolving endowment-proposal, originally published on Jan. 11, 2015 and updated in 2016. Earlier versions appeared here and here.
• Endow a National Digital Library, by Jim Duncan and David Rothman, in Library Journal, Oct. 9, 2014.
• The Rich Could Tackle Many Social Ills by Supporting a National Digital-Library Endowment, by David Rothman in The Chronicle of Philanthropy, June 4, 2014)
• On Robert Frost, Fences, and Electrons: Why we need two separate digital library systems for academics and the rest of America—and content exchanges and other neighborliness, by David Rothman, April 4, 2011.

Other writings from us:

• E-books, e-reading help child literacy: Major study from UK Literacy Trust, by Paul St John Mackintosh, Dec. 9, 2015.
• Book review: Bexar BiblioTech: The Evolution of the Country’s First All-digital Public Library, by David Rothman,  Feb. 13, 2015.
• Cell phone book clubs: A new way for libraries to promote literacy, technology, family and community, by David Rothman,  July 7, 2014
• Books and billionaires, by David Rothman, in the Baltimore Sun, Feb. 1, 2014.
• Jim Duncan, Colorado Library Consortium executive director, speaks out in LibraryCity series on public libraries and the Digital Public Library of America, Oct. 25, 2013.
• Infrastructure Watch: Warren Buffett as the Next Carnegie, by David Rothman, at TheAtlantic.com, Feb. 19, 2013. Also about the endowment proposal.
• Digital libraries are the future: Nation needs a common framework for lending e-books to the public, by David Rothman, in the Baltimore Sun, March 12, 2012. Note: LibraryCity supports the right of local libraries to acquire books not within the national system. But a national approach could significantly lower costs.
• How to make Rockford an e-book leader, by David Rothman, in the Rockford (Illinois) Register Star, Jan. 28, 2012. A related blog post is here.
• A Point-Counterpoint on the Digital Public Library of America, by David Rothman and the DPLA’s John Palfrey, on the Library Journal Web site, May 23, 2011.
• It’s time for a National Digital Library System. But it can’t serve only elites, by David Rothman, in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Feb. 24, 2011.
• How e-Books Could Smarten Up Kids and Stretch Library Dollars: A National Plan, by David Rothman, in The Huffington Post, Oct. 22, 2009.
• Why We Can’t Afford Not to Create a Well-Stocked National Digital Library System, by David Rothman, in TheAtlantic.com, Nov. 5, 2010.
• A national information stimulus plan: How iPad-style tablets could help educate millions and trim bureaucracy–not just be techno toys for the D.C. elite,  by David Rothman, in TheAtlantic.com, June 22, 2010.
• Real Books on the Internet, by David Rothman, in the Washington Post, Aug. 21, 1996.

From others—who may or may not agree with the above:

• A Digital Library Race and Playing Catch-Up, by Natasha Singer, in the New York Times, Jan. 8, 2011.
• A Digital Library Better Than Google’s, by Harvard Library Director and DPLA participant Robert Darnton, in the Times, March 23, 2011 (online March 24).
• The Voices of Librarians and the DPLA, by Robert Darnton in Library Journal, March 22, 2011.
• Can We Create a National Digital Library?, by Prof. Darnton in The New York Review of Books, Oct. 28, 2010.
• Other essays by Prof. Darnton in The New York Review of Books.
• Google, Robert Darnton, and the Digital Republic of Letters, by University of Michigan Librarian and Dean of Libraries Paul Courant in his blog, Feb. 4, 2009.
• Robert Darnton interviewed by the Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 6, 2010.
• The Hathi Trust IS Our National Digital Library, by Roy Tennant, in Library Journal, Nov 19, 2010.
• Berkman Center Announces Digital Public Library Planning Initiative, a news release from Dec. 13, 2010.
• Media mentions of the Berkman initiative.
• Berkman links to other writings on the digital library issue.

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