Library E-content Access Project

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.

The LEAP grant has four deliverables:

1. Continue development for the SimplyE app
2. Research Marketplace Exchange
3. Continue development of Open eBooks initiative
4. Create an open access ebook collection 

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

How can YOU get involved?

• Learn more and talk about the project with colleagues at your workplace: http://tunyurl.com/EbookDPLA
• Be an ambassador to your state: talk about the project at meetings and conferences, esp. your state library and/or library associations
  • Find proposals and slide decks here
• Help us spread the word by blogging or posting news to your member groups
• Talk with us about how to implement the SimplyE appin your library
• Talk with us about how to be a member of the Exchange, or adding SimplyE

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)