DPLAfest 2016 has ended

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DPLAfest 2016

Taking place in the heart of Washington, DC, DPLAfest 2016 (April 14-15) will bring together hundreds from DPLA’s large and growing community for interactive workshops, hackathons and other collaborative activities, engaging discussions with community leaders and practitioners, fun events, and more. DPLAfest 2016 will appeal to anyone interested in libraries, technology, ebooks, education, creative reuse of cultural materials, law, open access, and genealogy/family research.

Area institutions serving as co-hosts include the National Archives and Records Administration, the Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian Institution.

To view photographs, recordings, and social media from DPLAfest 2016, visit https://dp.la/info/get-involved/dplafest/april-2016/media/.

Christine Peterson

Amigos Library Services
Engagement & Emerging Technologies Coordinator
Dallas, TX

As part of a team at Amigos Library Services, I manage the SImplyE implementation project. Talk to me if you are interested in either hosting SimplyE for yourselves or having us host the app for your patrons.

8:30am EDT

Registration Library of Congress (Jefferson Building): Coolidge Auditorium

9:15am EDT

Welcome to DPLAfest 2016 Library of Congress (Jefferson Building): Coolidge Auditorium

10:15am EDT

Break TBA

10:45am EDT

The Future of Libraries Library of Congress (Jefferson Building): Coolidge Auditorium

11:30am EDT

Break TBA

11:45am EDT

Authorship in the Digital Age Library of Congress (Jefferson Building): Coolidge Auditorium Wide Open Spaces: Bringing the Rest of the West into DPLA Library of Congress (Jefferson Building): LJ 119

12:00pm EDT

Build your own tour of the Library of Congress Jefferson Building TBA

12:30pm EDT

Lunch Library of Congress (Jefferson and Madison Buildings): Great Hall and Madison Hall

1:45pm EDT

Ebook Research and Advocacy Library of Congress (Jefferson Building): LJ 119

2:30pm EDT

Break TBA

3:00pm EDT

Library eBook Platforms: An Update Library of Congress (Jefferson Building): Coolidge Auditorium

3:45pm EDT

Break TBA

4:15pm EDT

Moving Ebooks out of Silos Library of Congress (Jefferson Building): Whittall Pavilion

6:30pm EDT

Reception National Archives and Records Administration: Rotunda Galleries

8:30am EDT

9:30am EDT

FADGI for Still Imaging: Standards-Compliant Digitization for your Institution National Archives and Records Administration: Adams Room

10:15am EDT

Break TBA

10:45am EDT

Perspectives on Data and Quality Smithsonian (S. Dillon Ripley Center): Room 3037B

11:30am EDT

Break TBA

12:45pm EDT

Lunch TBA

2:00pm EDT

Creating compelling user interfaces National Archives and Records Administration: Madison Room

2:45pm EDT

Break TBA

3:15pm EDT

Closing remarks National Archives and Records Administration: McGowan Theater