#dpla

[thoughtportal]

To get from one side of the U.S. to the other is to criss-cross a veritable snakes and ladders of state and county-level legislation and policy. If you’re after a particular title by Toni Morrison or Margaret Atwood, you might find that it’s available in Georgia, and effectively banned next door in Florida. A new initiative from the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), launched in concert with the Palace Project, hopes to toss a ladder to people living in places where access is restricted.

The Banned Book Club is a free e-reader app that uses GPS-enabled geotargeting to determine which books are not available in a given area, and upload them to a library. To transcend petty local politics, simply download The Palace app, then select “Banned Books Club” as your “local library.” You will then be able to access all the goodies that someone else has “challenged.”

Executive Director of the DPLA, John Bracken, said in a statement that “book bans are one of the greatest threats to our freedom.” Thus, your local library doing what it can to remedy your rights.

They can’t wrap every state in tin foil, can they!

The project was announced on July 20th, and is doing its work as I type.

[stephenist]

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[andantenewsgraziesoso]

1792 French Estate Cart invented By Felix Frederick Juarez d' Faro Taitague

[deweydell25]

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[stop-entropy-lie-down]

Read! Read! Think! Think!

I MEAN BUSINESS

[filosofablogger]

Give 'Em Books!!! 📖

Something good popped out in my newsfeed today and I just had to share it with you.  It is called Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and it recently launched the Banned Book Program, granting free nationwide access to books restricted in schools or libraries. It functions through GPS-based geo-targeting; by typing in your zip code, you are shown the complete list of titles prohibited in…

[tomswifty-fr]

I think my number one art tip that isn't actually drawing related is that you have to curate a bunch of reference/inspiration resources and it can't just be pinterest or google images. You need your own stuff.

Option one: Photo books. Get them from the library and copy or photograph your favorite pages. Even better, you can buy these at thrift stores or library sales for cheap. Or you can pirate legally download them, which is less recommended because half the appeal of these things is flipping thru them and they look great on a shelf. The good ones are gonna be glossy and huge.

(first six I grabbed to photograph: cambridge glass, stained glass, and oriental rugs are great to grab ideas for patterns/color palettes; weathervane has great stylized animal designs; movies is for people, poses, and clothes; bilder is mainly people and cityscapes)

Option two: Non-google, non-pinterest websites. There are two paths here: big galleries like DPLA/Europeana/Wikimedia Commons/etc or specific topic websites (I get a lot of use out of UniformFreak, Featherbase, and Skull Index). Bookmark them when you find them bc who knows if you'll be able to find them again. The advantage of the first is a lot of options, the advantage of the second is they can get real specific.

(theoldrobots.com, incredible collection of robot pictures)

The main advantage of these is you're gonna be getting unique reference materials. A lot of times, photos in print books aren't gonna be available online because the photos are taken specifically for the book. This especially applies to older books which may not have an ebook version or have been scanned.

Basically, the idea is that the more wells you're drawing from, the better your stuff is gonna be. Google images, etc., is great if you need to quickly check something like where the leg bends on a horse or find a mechanical shape to trace for a sketch. If you're browsing it for ideas... use something better.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

A special 1925-1926 Packard sport phaeton is shown off at the 26th National Automobile Show, Grand Central Palace, January 9–16, 1926.

Photo: Nathan Lazarnick via Wayne State Univ./DPLA

[anarchistmemecollective]

what do the words "teufel hunden" mean? I saw them as a sticker in the fraktur font on the side of a truck with tons of conservative, gun-worshiping, and veteran bumper stickers. also does the license plate QAI3M mean anything?

not seeing anything more fashy than that

[queerliblib]

Hello. I just learned about this thing a bit ago, and got my library card today, and I was wondering if you knew of any other similar libraries that operate primarily through Libby? Now that I have had my eyes open to the possibility of multiple library cards my brain just wants to collect all that I can get.

hi! hmm which are primarily digital libraries through Libby… honestly, no. That’s one of the reasons we decided we’d be able to move forward with QLL after we had the idea, as it was filling a gap that no one else was.

Of course there are some public libraries (brooklyn among others) that have opened up *part* of their Libby catalogues nationally for certain age ranges (13-26), and then there are other digital branches of physical libraries like the Library of Congress’ open access digital collections. The closest I can think of for a fully digital library would be the Digital Public Library of America or DPLA, but they don’t use Libby. BPL, LoC, DPLA and others also don’t have the same focus on queer books that we do at QLL.

There are other excellent queer libraries out there too, but most are primarily physical collections (one exception being Quatrefoil Library who also launched a digital branch on Libby, but they also have a much more geographically narrow focus - Minneapolis - than we do)

[kommabortsig]

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[bluesrocknrollingstones]

Rodeo Hotel press conference, 1965

Photo from dpla

[outerspace-iiinnerspace]

people literally need to know about the gutenberg project, hathi trust, archive.org, pulp magazines project, dpla etc etc ETC. its so important. pirating is awesome but people will be pirating the art of war and dracula and you don't even need to do that. they're literally right there, free to all, in a delightful variety of file formats and web interfaces. not to mention all the other less-famous stuff.

[stop-entropy-lie-down]

writing tip

if u set a story in east texas on 23rd or 24th April 1915, make sure to mention the rain

[ultrajaphunter]

On 06/17/1983, the first flight of the Yakovlev Design Bureau's drone, the DPLA-60S, took place.

Shmel-1. the Sterkh aerial surveillance complex, which includes an integrated launch and control station located on the BMD-1 tracked chassis.

[wikimediauncommons]

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