The Digital Public Library of America core mission is to "empower people to learn, grow, and contribute to a diverse and better-functioning society" by connecting people to America's libraries, archives, museums, and cultural institutions. DPLA has thousands upon thousands of materials of photographs, books, maps, etc which are exclusively free and immediately available to anyone in digital format. This is such a great idea for anyone conducting research on family, history, or anything that has to do history or liberal arts. There is a bunch of exhibits on the website itself such as "Two Hundred Years on the Erie Canal" or "Race To The Moon" for a modern historian along with "Patent Medicine" and lots more. Luckily, with this database, only legitimate foundations can upload sources onto this site, however, there are other sites where anyone and everyone can upload anything without the worry of legitimacy.
As for the final project, I have gotten the approval from my Brentsville team and they have moved forward with the Google Application to put their names on the Google Arts Project so, right now, we are waiting to hear back from Google. If I do not hear back from Google by Wednesday night, I will move forward with a different project.
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