The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is pleased to announce a new $622,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to strengthen and expand its national cultural heritage network and platform. DPLA's cultural heritage aggregation program has been its signature achievement since launching in 2013, making over 34 million items—photographs, maps, news footage, oral histories, manuscript documents, artwork, and more—from 4,000 libraries, museums, and archives across the country freely discoverable to all.

The new two-year grant from the Mellon Foundation will enable DPLA to support the current and future activities and priorities of its national network and continue to make their materials available to everyone. DPLA will work with its partners to develop new services and tools to support the needs of the diverse institutions in our cultural heritage network; build new partnerships to ensure that every institution in the country has a pathway to contribute materials to DPLA; promote the use of DPLA's rich collections by learners of all stripes; and continue to work with our members to advance our shared goals of increasing access to our nation's digital collections.

"This renewed funding from the Mellon Foundation will help position DPLA for long-term success," said John Bracken, Executive Director of DPLA. "We will build on DPLA's founding principles and core work, broaden our impact, and adapt to our partners' evolving needs in the Digital Age.

About the Digital Public Library of America

The Digital Public Library of America amplifies the value of libraries and cultural organizations as Americans' most trusted sources of shared knowledge. We do this by collaborating with partners to accelerate innovative tools and ideas that empower and equip libraries to make information more accessible. Visit https://dp.la.

About The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation endeavors to strengthen, promote, and, where necessary, defend the contributions of the humanities and the arts to human flourishing and to the well-being of diverse and democratic societies. To this end, we support exemplary institutions of higher education and culture as they renew and provide access to an invaluable heritage of ambitious, path-breaking work.