-
·
Internet Archive Seeks Summary Judgment in Federal Lawsuit Filed By Publishing Companies | Internet Archive Blogs
Posted on July 8, 2022 by chrisfreeland The motion for summary judgment, filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Durie Tangri LLP, explains that our Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) program is a lawful fair use that preserves traditional library lending in…
-
·
New Project Will Unlock Access to Government Publications on Microfiche | Internet Archive Blogs
Posted on March 15, 2022 by Caralee Adams Government documents from microfiche are coming to archive.org based on the combined efforts of the Internet Archive, Stanford University Libraries, and other library partners. The resulting files will be available for free public access to enable new analysis and access techniques. Microfiche cards, which contain miniaturized thumbnails…
-
·
Library as Laboratory: A New Series Exploring the Computational Use of Internet Archive Collections – Internet Archive Blogs
Posted on February 9, 2022 by chrisfreeland From web archives to television news to digitized books & periodicals, dozens of projects rely on the collections available at archive.org for computational & bibliographic research across a large digital corpus. This series will feature six sessions highlighting the innovative scholars that are using Internet Archive collections, services…
-
·
Will There Be Libraries in 25 Years? | Time
By Brewster Kahle, October 22, 2021 1:21 PM EDT Kahle, Founder and Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive. Member, National Academy of Engineering, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Internet Hall of Fame When I started the Internet Archive 25 years ago, I focused our non-profit library on digital collections: preserving web pages,…
-
·
Using Wayback Machine for Research | The Signal | Internet Archive | Library of Congress
October 26, 2012 by Butch Lazorchak The following is a guest post by Nicholas Taylor, Information Technology Specialist for the Repository Development Group at the Library of Congress. Prompted by questions from Library of Congress staff on how to more effectively use web archives to answer research questions, I recently gave a presentation on “Using…
-
·
Event Recap: Why Trust a Corporation to Do a Library’s Job? – Internet Archive Blogs
Posted on April 30, 2021 by Caralee Adams Although people are increasingly turning to Google to search for information, a corporate search engine is not the same as a trusted librarian. And while libraries are used to buying and preserving books, they are now often unable to buy and own digital materials because of publisher…
-
·
‘Remember the Internet’: An Encyclopedia of Online Life – The Atlantic
How do we memorialize life online when it’s constantly disappearing? by Kaitlyn Tiffany, March 22, 2021 For many of us, for better or for worse, the internet is home. Our communities are here, because many of them could not exist any other way. Superfans, shitposters, amateur experts, wiki nerds, grizzled forum moderators, obsessive sneaker enthusiasts,…
-
·
Free e-books: Where to get them
Look: It’s cold. The news is depressing. New movies and TV shows have ground to a halt. It won’t stop snowing. Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, so tack on six more weeks of winter. Time to curl up with a good book. Source: Free e-books: Where to get them Source: https://www.fastcompany.com/90604895/how-to-get-free-ebooks-kindle-library
-
·
Old Time Radio : Free Audio : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive
Source: https://archive.org/details/oldtimeradio
-
·
The Open Library Now Faces The National Writers Union
After the UK’s Society of Authors asked the Open Library to stop making its scanned books available to people in the UK, the US’ National Writers Union published a letter making similar demands. Source: The Open Library Now Faces The National Writers Union
-
![[Star Trek Convention] : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive](https://staging-b531-drwebdomain.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/default.jpg)
·
[Star Trek Convention] : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
[Star Trek Convention] Publication date 1972 circa Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0 Color color Identifier 6388_Star_Trek_Convention_01_51_57_00 Sound sound Year 1972 Source: [Star Trek Convention] : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
-
·
A Love Letter to the People Who Build the Internet Archive | Internet Archive Blogs
“When you visit a public library, you get to meet the librarians and others who build and care for those collections. You know there are people who empty the garbage cans, who put back the borrowed books, who maintain the computers, and who determine what ends up on the shelf.” “A digital library, on the…
