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NYPL makes 187,000 digital items available in public domain collection

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Wow I’ve been lost in this new public domain search from NY Public Library’s NYPL Labs. And they’ve made the data and code available on github!

Check it out for yourself. Go Public Domain!

On January 6th, 2016, The New York Public Library made over 187K digital items in the public domain available for high resolution download. This is one of many experiments by the NYPL Labs to help patrons understand and explore what was contained in that release.

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