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This is an introduction to the DALN, its most basic purpose and impact so far.

The DALN is an online public archive of personal literary narratives. The DALN collects narratives ranging in formats and composition styles to include traditional and unconventional self-exploratory mediums such as video essays, drawings and written narratives. In 2005, the DALN began development by Cynthia l.Selfe, H.Lewis Ulman, and Scott DeWitt at The Ohio State University for the purpose of creating a diverse and accessible preservation of personal narratives. Since its online publication, the DALN has accumulated a world wide audience and as of 2009, there have been about 7000+ submissions from several different countries, a vast majority from the United States.