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Summer Harvest and New Contributor

Another summer harvest brings over 20,000 new items to Ohio’s collections in DPLA, and a new contributor, to boot! With collection additions from Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives, The College of Wooster Special Collections, Kent State University, Ohio University Libraries, Toledo Lucas County Public Library, and Worthington Libraries, it’s […]

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New Ways to Use DPLA

Great news from DPLA – they’ve recently added a way to filter your search results by reuse conditions with a Copyright Status Filter. This means, for example, that if you are looking for something that is out of copyright or in copyright but able to be used for educational purposes, you can start your search […]

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New Additions March 2021

Librarians across the state have been hard at work for the past year, even if their building doors have been closed to the public. To see evidence of this work in the digital collections of Ohio, you need look no further than our most recent DPLA harvest that added over 16,000 items from Ohio’s libraries […]

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2020 In Review

Following December’s post about our last additions to DPLA for 2020, we have some great numbers to share that demonstrate the work that Ohio Digital Network and our contributors have done through a heck of a year. Usage of Ohio’s collections on DPLA, Ohio’s number of items in the Digital Public Library of America, and […]

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Making a present of the past

Hello and happy holiday season from Ohio Digital Network! We’ve just completed our last additions to DPLA for the year, and seven (7!) institutions have added to their existing collections to bring our total number of items in DPLA up to 236,625. What a gift it is to share in the histories of Cincinnati and […]

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