Nate Hill introduces himself as the co-chair of the DPLA Marketing & Outreach Committee and provides a link to examples of how the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) can be used for homework help at public libraries. He then illustrates a scenario where two students need resources for a report on Native American tribes and are able to easily find over 1,000 images, documents and other resources on the Iroquois and Hopi tribes and over 40 resources on the Inuit tribe through the DPLA.

1. Hello! I’m Nate Hill,
Co-chair of the DPLA Marketing & Outreach Committee.

2. use cases from DPLA planning initiative.
www.natehill.net/dplausecases

3. An illustration of why
Is a killer resource for homework
help at your public library.

4. “I’ve got to do a report on a Native American
tribe, and I need at least 5 resources.”

5. “Me Too!!!”

6. “uh-oh.”

7. win.

8. let’s see what we’ve got.
Iroquois: 1144 Images, 412 text
Hopi: 999 Images, 185 text, 3 moving image, 2 sound
Inuit: 42 text, 15 images

9. choices.
From the University of Southern California

10. choices.
From the Arizona Memory Project via Mountain West Digital Library

11. choices.
From the University of Virginia via HathiTrust

12. primary source content
is inspiring

13. focus and build your collection

15. focus and build your collection

16. focus and build your collection

17. focus and build your collection

18. how easy and awesome was that?