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Historians, Academic Publishers, and the Ongoing Digital Publishing (R)evolution

But does it have a Reading Room? During the last two weeks, two major national events exploring the frontiers of e-publishing took place on opposite coasts of the U.S.  On October 21, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) held its first Plenary Meeting at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. And on October 26-28, the Books in Browsers conference took place at the headquarters of the Internet Archive in San Francisco. The DPLA event was built around the six winners of the DPLA’s beta sprint competition to identify “ideas, models, prototypes, technical tools, user interfaces, etc. . . that Read more