[OPLINLIST] Fwd: DPLA and FamilySearch Partner to Expand Access to Digitized Historical Books Online

[Stephen Hedges]

I'm passing along this press release, which should be of interest to your
genealogy patrons.

Stephen Hedges
Director, Ohio Public Library Information Network
2323 W. Fifth Ave Suite 130, Columbus 43204
614-728-5250

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From: Digital Public Library of America <info at dp.la>
Date: Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 8:44 AM
Subject: DPLA and FamilySearch Partner to Expand Access to Digitized
Historical Books Online
To: Stephen <stephen at oplin.ohio.gov>


** DPLA and FamilySearch Partner to Expand Access to Digitized Historical
Books Online
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BOSTON/SALT LAKE CITY— In concert with the American Library Association
national conference in Orlando, Florida, this week, the Digital Public
Library of America (
http://us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=e1490d1305c4b651f3ad0ace4&id=5ea4b8fab8&e=835ed9a482)
(DPLA) and FamilySearch International (
http://us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=e1490d1305c4b651f3ad0ace4&id=68d9178597&e=835ed9a482)
, the largest genealogy organization in the world, have signed an agreement
that will expand access to FamilySearch.org’s growing free digital
historical book collection to DPLA’s broad audience of users including
genealogists, researchers, family historians, students, and more.

Family history/genealogy continues to be a popular and growing hobby. And
FamilySearch is a leader in the use of technology to digitally preserve the
world’s historic records and books of genealogical relevance for easy
search and access online. With this new partnership, DPLA will incorporate
metadata from FamilySearch.org’s online digital book collection that will
make more than 200,000 family history books discoverable through DPLA’s
search portal later this year. From DPLA, users will be able to access the
free, fully viewable digital books on FamilySearch.org.

The digitized historical book collection at FamilySearch.org includes
genealogy and family history publications from the archives of some of the
most important family history libraries in the world. The collection
includes family histories, county and local histories, genealogy magazines
and how-to books, gazetteers, and medieval histories and pedigrees.  Tens
of thousands of new publications are added yearly.

“We’re excited to see information about FamilySearch’s vast holdings more
broadly circulated to those trained to collect, catalog, and distribute
useful information. Joint initiatives like this with DPLA help us to
further expand access to the rich historic records hidden in libraries and
archives worldwide to more curious online patrons,” said David Rencher,
FamilySearch’s Chief Genealogy Officer.

Dan Cohen, Executive Director of DPLA, sees the addition of FamilySearch’s
digital book collection as part of DPLA’s ongoing mission to be an
essential site for family history researchers: “At DPLA, we aspire to
collect and share cultural heritage materials that represent individuals,
families, and communities from all walks of life across the country, past
and present. The FamilySearch collection and our continued engagement with
genealogists and family researchers is critical to help bring the stories
represented in these treasured resources to life in powerful and exciting
ways.”

FamilySearch is a global nonprofit organization dedicated to the discovery
and preservation of personal and family histories and stories, introducing
individuals to their ancestors through the widespread access to records,
and collaborating with others who share this vision. Within DPLA,
FamilySearch’s book collection will be discoverable alongside over 13
million cultural heritage materials contributed by DPLA’s growing network
of over 2,000 libraries, archives, and museums across the country, opening
up all new possibilities for discovery for users and researchers worldwide.

Find more about FamilySearch or search its resources online at
FamilySearch.org (
http://us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e1490d1305c4b651f3ad0ace4&id=281370ca03&e=835ed9a482)
. Learn more about Digital Public Library of America at
http://us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e1490d1305c4b651f3ad0ace4&id=7415d2f341&e=835ed9a482
(
http://us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=e1490d1305c4b651f3ad0ace4&id=520f0d21db&e=835ed9a482)
.

About FamilySearch

FamilySearch (
http://us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e1490d1305c4b651f3ad0ace4&id=cea5344b3d&e=835ed9a482)
is the largest genealogy organization in the world. FamilySearch is a
nonprofit, volunteer-driven organization sponsored by The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints. Millions of people use FamilySearch records,
resources, and services to learn more about their family history. To help
in this great pursuit, FamilySearch and its predecessors have been actively
gathering, preserving, and sharing genealogical records worldwide for over
100 years. Patrons may access FamilySearch services and resources for free
at FamilySearch.org (
http://us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e1490d1305c4b651f3ad0ace4&id=6ea79a6236&e=835ed9a482)
or through more than 4,921 family history centers in 129 countries,
including the main Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.

About the Digital Public Library of America

The Digital Public Library of America (
http://us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e1490d1305c4b651f3ad0ace4&id=52ffaabab9&e=835ed9a482)
strives to contain the full breadth of human expression, from the written
word, to works of art and culture, to records of America’s heritage, to the
efforts and data of science. Since launching in April 2013, it has
aggregated more than 13 million items from 2,000 institutions. The DPLA is
a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit.

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