The NEW Michigan Memories
May 15 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Join DPLA as we spotlight the recent relaunch of Michigan Memories, a website that allows users to search the online collections of cultural institutions all around the state. Michigan Memories is the Michigan-centric counterpart to the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), and the new version offers support for exhibits and educational resources about the state of Michigan and the people who live there. Many of our DPLA hubs are initiatives with close ties to state-based memory portals, and Michigan’s challenges and learnings offer useful insight for the whole DPLA Network.
The Michigan Service Hub was created in 2015 as a collaborative project by the Library of Michigan, Wayne State University, the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Western Michigan University, and the Midwest Collaborative for Library Services. The service hub works with archives, libraries, museums, and historical societies around Michigan to help them share their publicly accessible, online collections more widely through the DPLA and Michigan Memories. Funding for the new site was provided in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Library of Michigan.
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Speaker Richard C. Adler is the coordinator of the Michigan Service Hub, part of the hub network of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). He has traveled around the state to meet with staff at cultural institutions and work with them to share their online collections with the DPLA and the newly rebuilt Michigan Memories.