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DPLA Ebooks
Ebook services are core to our commitment to a library-led digital future. We've redesigned our DPLA Ebooks site to showcase how we are helping libraries take control of acquisition and delivery and make more diverse materials easily available while advocating for the needs of libraries in the marketplace.

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Recreational Tourism in the Mountain West





The Show Must Go On! American Theater in the Great Depression





Race to the Moon





A History of US Public Libraries





In Focus: The Evolution of the Personal Camera





Activism in the US








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Voting Rights Act of 1965





Ida B. Wells and Anti-Lynching Activism





The Poetry of Maya Angelou





The New Woman





Lyndon Johnson's Great Society





The Fifteenth Amendment





Immigration and Americanization, 1880 - 1930





Space Race








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	Flexible licensing models from the DPLA Exchange
April 13, 2021
DPLA’s ebooks program serves our mission of maximizing access to digital content by giving libraries across the country greater control over their acquisition and delivery of ebooks and audiobooks


	DPLA to host Book Talk on Mistrust, by Ethan Zuckerman, on April 22nd at 1 pm ET
April 2, 2021
We are pleased to invite you to join us at the inaugural DPLA Book Talk, which will feature a conversation between Mistrust author Ethan Zuckerman and Wikimedia Foundation CEO and…

	Join the DPLA Community + Open Board Meeting on April 9th
March 25, 2021
With expanded vaccine access, many of us have begun to conceive of what our post-Covid worlds might look like. These visions are necessarily colored by all that we have learned…





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