What is LEAP?
LEAP is a two-year IMLS funded grant project that advances work began at the New York Public Library in conjunction with 19 partner libraries across the US and is coordinated through national strategic conversations led by DPLA.
Through the LEAP grant partners will:
Expand and provide outreach for the existing SimplyE (Library Simplified) application
Engage in in-depth planning for its sustainable maintenance and ongoing development
Facilitate a national conversation about the challenges and potential of library ebooks
Build consensus around a possible solution addressing these needs an opportunities, and begin to prototype that solution
Upcoming Partner Meetings
- DPLAfest, April 13, Washington D.C.
- ALA Annual Meeting, June, Orlando, FL
- Charleston Conference, November, Charleston, SC
Partner Institutions
- Alameda County Library (CA)
- Amigos Library Services
- Boston Public Library
- Brooklyn Public Library
- CALIFA Library Group
- Carnegie Library of Pittsburg
- Chattanooga Public Library
- Chicago Public Library
- Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
- Colorado Library Consortium
- Connecticut State Library
- Digital Public Library of America
- Douglas County Libraries (CO)
- Georgia Public Library Service
- Kent District Library (MI)
- Marmot Library Network (CO)
- Massachusetts Library System
- Minitex (MN, ND, SD)
- Nashville Public Library
- NC LIVE
- New York Public Library
- Queens Library
- Reaching Across Illinois Library System (RAILS)
- Twinsburg Public Library (OH)