Internet Archive
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Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering millions of free books, movies, & audio files, plus billions of saved web pages in the Wayback Machine.
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‪Internet Archive‬ ‪@archive.org‬
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Latest update from
@brewster.kahle.org
: “Update: @internetarchive’s data has not been corrupted. Services are currently stopped to upgrade internal systems. We are working to restore services as quickly and safely as possible. Sorry for this disruption.”
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‪Internet Archive‬ ‪@archive.org‬
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UPDATE (October 10, 3:36am PT) on the DDOS attack on Internet Archive. We will share more as we know it.
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Public records are essential for accountability and transparency. 🗄️ In the latest post for our
series, Maria Bustillos (
@mariabustillos.bsky.social
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Charlie Barlow, BLC: "While Schonfield suggests that libraries have limited market power, this overlooks that ITHAKA, through JSTOR, brokers nearly $100 million in content agreements with publishers annually, largely supported by library funding." ⤵️ www.libraryfutures.net/post/cdls-fu...
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Library Futures | CDL's Future Depends on Us All: A Response to Scholarly Kitchen's
Championing the right to equitable access to knowledge.
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We’re thrilled to announce that Aruba will receive the 2024 Internet Archive Hero Award! 🇦🇼 Join us in celebrating this island nation’s groundbreaking efforts in digital preservation & making cultural heritage accessible worldwide: blog.archive.org/2024/10/07/a...
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Interested in the services Internet Archive offers to the library community? 📚🔗🎵 Join our annual Library Leaders Forum to learn more! 📅 Oct 17 @ 10am PT / 1pm ET 📍Online 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/library-le...
www.eventbrite.com
Library Leaders Forum 2024: VIRTUAL
Join us for an update on the Internet Archive's library services.
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‪Lauren Gilbert‬ ‪@lgilbert1.bsky.social‬
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Invaluable reference material for writers of historical fiction.
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Regional cookbooks are more than recipes—they're a window into our shared cultural traditions and histories. Preserving these practical guides ensures future generations can savor the stories of our past. 🍲📚
🔗 Read more: blog.archive.org/2024/09/30/v...
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‪Molly White‬ ‪@molly.wiki‬
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Thank you to everyone who helped raise $4,211 to support the Internet Archive’s Open Library!
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‪Jason Scott‬ ‪@textfiles.com‬
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I've been a bit dark with regard to Internet Archive lately. Here's yams
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‪Kate Knibbs‬ ‪@knibbs.bsky.social‬
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Most of the headline-grabbing copyright battles over the past few years have been over AI. But the Internet Archive is fighting its own war over copyright—and it's in grave danger. www.wired.com/story/intern...
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The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself
The web’s collective memory is stored in the servers of the Internet Archive. Legal battles threaten to wipe it all away.
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‪Internet Archive‬ ‪@archive.org‬
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What is fair use & why does it matter for creators? 🎧️ Listen in as experts Patricia Aufderheide & Peter Jaszi talk about their landmark book, "Reclaiming Fair Use"—now in its second edition! Co-hosted with Authors Alliance. ▶️ archive.org/details/recl...
Reclaiming Fair Use, featuring Dave Hansen, Patricia Aufderheide, and Peter Jaszi, all wearing black.
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‪Internet Archive‬ ‪@archive.org‬
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🎂 Celebrate F. Scott Fitzgerald's birthday with a look back at "The Great Gatsby" and his other literary classics. 🖋📚 Read "Gatsby"—now in the public domain—on the Internet Archive ➡️ archive.org/details/the-...
Classic cover of The Great Gatsby
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Did you know that besides archiving the Cartoon Network website, we also saved other media in our collections? Explore the archived flash games featured in this month’s Best of the Archive Newsletter at us20.campaign-archive.com?u=38bd615438...
Flash game preserved, "Dexter's Laboratory Runaway Robot"
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‪Janet Bufton‬ ‪@jbufton.bsky.social‬
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I'm able to do my work this morning thanks to
@archive.org
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‪Internet Archive‬ ‪@archive.org‬
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New post from
@brewster.kahle.org
, “Lending of Digitized Books” ➡️ blog.archive.org/2024/09/21/l...
“We respect the opinion of the courts and, while we are saddened by how this setback affects our patrons and the future of all libraries, the Internet Archive remains strong and committed to our mission of Universal Access to All Knowledge.” Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive
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‪Neglected Books‬ ‪@neglectedbooks.bsky.social‬
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Why is it important to preserve forgotten books? A reflection on one of the many valuable functions of the Internet Archive. blog.archive.org/2024/09/16/v...
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‪Ideas Roadshow‬ ‪@ideasroadshow.bsky.social‬
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Excellent post by Brad Bigelow
@neglectedbooks.bsky.social
"So much of the literature that has historically been remote & inaccessible can now be found just steps from their front doors
@archive.org
🎬 Also read: ideasroadshow.com/barbarians-a...
🗃️ 📚🕳️ 🗃️ 🏺
‪Internet Archive‬ ‪@archive.org‬
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Why is it important to preserve forgotten books? 📚🕳️ Discover how lost stories hold the key to cultural memory, creativity & knowledge in a new post from author & editor Brad Bigelow of Neglected Books. 🔗 blog.archive.org/2024/09/16/v... #VanishingCulture
“One must look beyond literature’s well-traveled paths and discover the riches to be found in the vast landscape of forgotten books.” Brad Bigelow Author and editor, Neglected Books
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‪Helen Leach‬ ‪@pippypipkins.bsky.social‬
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I've found some really interesting local history tidbits in the Internet Archive that I believe I would never have otherwise discovered.
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Why is it important to preserve forgotten books? 📚🕳️ Discover how lost stories hold the key to cultural memory, creativity & knowledge in a new post from author & editor Brad Bigelow of Neglected Books. 🔗 blog.archive.org/2024/09/16/v...
“One must look beyond literature’s well-traveled paths and discover the riches to be found in the vast landscape of forgotten books.” Brad Bigelow Author and editor, Neglected Books
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‪Scary Face (Mary Grace)‬ ‪@emgeekay.bsky.social‬
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I am grateful to the Internet Archive for their dedication to digital preservation and lifting up others with the Community Webs Program.💗
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‪Molly White‬ ‪@molly.wiki‬
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6 × 8" linocut relief print, CC BY 4.0
Black ink linocut print of a person in a dress reaching for a book on a large bookshelf. Above is “Free people read freely”; below is “Defend the Internet Archive”.
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‪Eric Danville‬ ‪@ericdanville.bsky.social‬
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The
has helped me find (more than) several pieces of mine I thought were gone for good. This will be a great addition to the site
‪Internet Archive‬ ‪@archive.org‬
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New Feature Alert: Access archived webpages directly through Google Search, now featuring a link to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. 🔗 blog.archive.org/2024/09/11/n...
Internet Archive Wayback Machine
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New Feature Alert: Access archived webpages directly through Google Search, now featuring a link to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. 🔗 blog.archive.org/2024/09/11/n...
Internet Archive Wayback Machine
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‪Google's Search Liaison‬ ‪@searchliaison.bsky.social‬
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We know many, including researchers, value seeing previous versions of webpages when available. That’s why beginning today, we're adding links to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine to our "About this result" panel, to give quick context & make this helpful info easily accessible via Search.
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‪Molly White‬ ‪@molly.wiki‬
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Person arguing with me in DMs that the Hachette decision is good for authors and not detrimental to readers who can just use a library: “I’m predicting that your IA experience will not be significantly diminished.” Me, literally yesterday:
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‪Annalee Newitz‬ ‪@annaleen.bsky.social‬
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The Internet Archive's lending library was so helpful for my research on the history of psyops. There are tons of primary sources like government documents, plus obscure, out-of-print books that can reveal a lot. This ruling against them is a blow to the public sphere. www.wired.com/story/intern...
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The Internet Archive Loses Its Appeal of a Major Copyright Case
Hachette v. Internet Archive was brought by book publishers objecting to the archive’s digital lending library.
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‪Internet Archive‬ ‪@archive.org‬
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Internet Archive Responds to Appellate Opinion in Hachette v. Internet Archive 🔗 blog.archive.org/2024/09/04/i...
"We are disappointed in today’s opinion about the Internet Archive’s digital lending of books that are available electronically elsewhere. We are reviewing the court’s opinion and will continue to defend the rights of libraries to own, lend, and preserve books." -Chris Freeland, Director of Library Services
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‪Internet Archive‬ ‪@archive.org‬
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"The amount of economic harm that the publishers are presently suffering as a result of the IA has not only never been quantified, it has not even been roughly attempted to be quantified." 🔗 "Barbarians at the Gates” by Howard Burton for
@ideasroadshow.bsky.social
: ideasroadshow.com/barbarians-a...
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Barbarians at the Gates
How the Internet Archive is putting publishers to shameAnyone interested in developing a deep understanding of Botticelli’s great mythological works simply must read Charles Dempsey’s 1992 classic,…
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‪Internet Archive‬ ‪@archive.org‬
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We’re shifting from brat summer to BART autumn (you read that right) with this 1971 SF BART branding guideline book. More fun finds and stories in our August Best of the Archive Newsletter: mailchi.mp/archive.org/...
BART logo design with a brat green overlay.
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‪Internet Archive‬ ‪@archive.org‬
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If you weren’t able to join last week's GOVERNABLE SPACES
, you can watch it on the Internet Archive. LILLY IRANI (
@gleemie.bsky.social
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@ntnsndr.in
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Screenshot from a zoom conversation between Lilly Irani & Nathan Schneider.
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‪Internet Archive‬ ‪@archive.org‬
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Why is it important to preserve 78rpm recordings? As audio preservation expert George Blood explains, "78rpm discs were the way we learned about each other and entertained the world." blog.archive.org/2024/08/26/v...
A selection of 78 rpm recordings.
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‪Dr Francis Osis‬ ‪@fosis.bsky.social‬
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Today in the archives: bringing this ridiculous machine from the 1970s back to life in order to read files stored in an obscure and awkward format. Incredible that it still works 🤯 thanks to
@archive.org
who had the manual scanned for us to refer to!
A dark monitor housed in a very large and dated case with knobs and buttons on it.
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‪Internet Archive‬ ‪@archive.org‬
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LISTEN: New podcast episode from Politico Tech featuring Mark Graham, director of Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, discussing the multi-institutional End of Term Archive project. "Meet the man archiving Biden's presidency" 🔗 www.politico.com/podcasts/tech
www.politico.com
Sign up for POLITICO Tech
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‪jennie rose halperin‬ ‪@littlewow.bsky.social‬
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Surprise: A big public library content vendor is overloading library catalogs with shitty ebooks, AI generated slurry, and right wing propaganda. Try doing any search on hoopla digital and the results you get are bad, bad, bad www.libraryfutures.net/post/hooplas...
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Library Futures | Hoopla's Content Problem: Strange, Skewed Results Still Dominate Catalog
Championing the right to equitable access to knowledge.
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‪Internet Archive‬ ‪@archive.org‬
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You won't want to miss this! Pepsiman, the sweet mascot for Pepsi in Japan during the ’90s, and all of his paraphernalia (games, ads, and even a mini CD) are all available on the Archive. Learn about this and more in our Best of the Archive Newsletter, shared every month: mailchi.mp/archive.org/...
Pepsiman video game character from Japan.
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‪Internet Archive‬ ‪@archive.org‬
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Our popular book talk series with Authors Alliance starts back up in August—registration opening soon! 📣 We're looking for authors & books to fill out our schedule in late 2024 / early 2025. Learn more & reach out via our latest post: blog.archive.org/2024/07/18/s...
Book talk themes with Authors Alliance: Libraries & Literacy Book Culture & the History of the Book Internet Policy Copyright & Intellectual Property Rights Artificial Intelligence & its impact Computing & Internet History Supporting Democracies Contact Chris Freeland - chrisfreeland@archive.org
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‪Internet Archive‬ ‪@archive.org‬
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George Smart is on a mission to save mid-century modern houses. He believes the structures are artworks that deserve respect, but people miss their importance & how to preserve them. Smart relies on books & web archives from the Internet Archive in his work. ➡️ blog.archive.org/2024/07/15/s...
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‪Internet Archive‬ ‪@archive.org‬
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THIS FRIDAY — Join us for Public Domain Night at the Internet Archive! 👀 We're screening 📽️ "D.O.A." (1949) starring Edmond O'Brien & Pamela Britton.⁠ 📅 July 19⁠ 🕡 7:00pm ⁠ 🎟️ eventbrite.com/e/doa-screen...
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D.O.A. (Noir Film) Screening - Hosted by the Internet Archive
In this Noir Classic, one man races against the clock to solve his own murder.
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‪Internet Archive‬ ‪@archive.org‬
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JUST POSTED: 🎵 New ways to search archived music news with Internet Archive's Wayback Machine: blog.archive.org/2024/07/10/n...
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New Ways to Search Archived Music News | Internet Archive Blogs
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‪Internet Archive‬ ‪@archive.org‬
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“If Congress had not statutorily protected first sale, would library lending be legal?” 🤔 That’s one of 3 key questions librarian & legal scholar Michelle Wu breaks down from the recent oral argument in Hachette v. Internet Archive: www.libraryfutures.net/post/a-respo...
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Library Futures | A Response to Hachette v. Internet Archive from Michelle Wu
Championing the right to equitable access to knowledge.
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‪Internet Archive‬ ‪@archive.org‬
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With climate change posing a threat for island nations & their cultural heritage, preservation efforts are now more crucial than ever. Learn how our partnership with Aruba’s national library & archives is helping in this PBS NewsHour story: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cSL...
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As climate change threatens island nations, some turn to digitizing their history
As hurricanes grow stronger and more common due to climate change, they raise new threats for island nations — not just to infrastructure, but also to artifa...
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‪Dr. SkySkull‬ ‪@drskyskull.bsky.social‬
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Internet Archive saves my ass again with a math book that I wouldn't be able to find anywhere else.
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‪dweb.bsky.social‬ ‪@dweb.bsky.social‬
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In the SF Bay Area this week? We're holding an *in-person* meetup at the
@archive.org
HQ in San Francisco this Wednesday, July 10 5:30-9pm! Come by for dinner, drinks, + socializing, and hear about new projects participating at DWeb Camp this summer. www.eventbrite.com/e/dweb-sf-me...
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DWeb SF Meetup — DWeb Camp Sneak Peek! IN PERSON!
Join us for this in person meetup for some dinner, cocktails, networking, and a sneak peek at some cool new DWeb projects!
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‪Internet Archive‬ ‪@archive.org‬
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You want your MTV? ⬇️
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‪Paula Simoes‬ ‪@paulasimoes.bsky.social‬
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Went to my history loans
@archive.org
* 32% bought * 11% most second-hand, on my ToBuy list * 41% not available to buy or too expensive (200€!) * 2% Public Domain * 14% not interested (some not available) Don't ever tell me libraries harm publishers. EVER.
My two most recent buys:
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‪Gary Hornseth‬ ‪@garyhornseth.bsky.social‬
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Fun fact: The Plant Seed Co. of St. Louis, Missouri, was founded in 1845 by a man named William Plant. It also had cool catalog art. Here’s one from 1892. Source: Henry G. Gilbert Nursery & Seed Trade Catalog Collection, National Agricultural Library, via
@archive.org
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A very elaborate 1892 catalog cover, printed in vivid colors with a variety of type/lettering styles against a light beige background. The cover is bordered on the top, left and bottom by lush illustrations of a variety of vegetables and flowers — wheat, radishes, carrots, lettuces. I think a basket of apples. Also some gardening implements and a watering can. SEEDS FOR THE GARDEN, FARM & FIELD ESTABLISHED 1845 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE PLANT SEED COMPANY ST LOUIS 612 & 614 N FOURTH ST.
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‪Internet Archive‬ ‪@archive.org‬
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So what happened last Friday in court with Hachette v. Internet Archive, the publishers' lawsuit against our library? Check out updates in our new post: blog.archive.org/2024/07/01/w...
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What happened last Friday in Hachette v. Internet Archive? | Internet Archive Blogs
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‪Internet Archive‬ ‪@archive.org‬
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Check out the DWeb Camp virtual preview THIS WEDNESDAY, July 3 ⤵️
‪dweb.bsky.social‬ ‪@dweb.bsky.social‬
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Our virtual meetup next week will feature: 🌲 Billion Lee of CoFacts 🌲 Sinu of TLSNotary / @ethereum.bsky.social 🌲 Eric Harris-Braun of Holo 🌲 @kumavis.me of @metamask.io 🌲 Val Elefante of CCI's Sol Center Happening WED July 3 5pm PT (Asia-Pacific friendly time!) www.eventbrite.com/e/july-2024-...
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July 2024 DWeb Meetup — DWeb Camp Sessions Preview
Join us for this virtual meetup featuring speakers who will be leading sessions at DWeb Camp this August.
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‪Internet Archive‬ ‪@archive.org‬
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We’re fighting to restore access to more than 500,000 books in court on Friday. You can show your support in a number of ways - learn more: blog.archive.org/2024/06/26/w...
“It’s like losing the town library.” Ryan USA
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‪Fight for the Future‬ ‪@fightforthefuture.org‬
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Good morning Manhattan.
✊🏻
@archive.org
BattleForLibraries.com
A stack of posters on a sidewalk in New York, waiting to be installed. They read "Defend the Internet Archive. We need Digital Libraries. Let them own books. BattleForLibraries.com"
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‪Internet Archive‬ ‪@archive.org‬
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Did you catch the story about the Wayback Machine on CBS News Sunday Morning? 🌞 David Pogue chatted with
@brewster.kahle.org
about archiving the web, and the lawsuits from publishers & the recording industry that threaten our mission & your access to information. Watch: cbsnews.com/news/the-way...
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The Wayback Machine, a time machine for the web
Because the web is ephemeral, the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine has made backups of websites continually since 1996, with nearly 900 billion pages preserved. But making books and music freely ava...
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‪Ian Rennie‬ ‪@theangelremiel.bsky.social‬
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At its core, the reason publishers are going after the Internet Archive isn't that its actions have lost money for authors. It's that publishers want to delegitimise the concept of owning a digital copy of something.
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‪Lotje‬ ‪@lotje.bsky.social‬
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I fairly regularly need older/more obscure stuff that I can't immediately get through the libraries I have access to. This is especially frustrating when a digital version exists but is paywalled.
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‪Oliver Plaschka‬ ‪@rainlights.net‬
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Preparing my last seminar, I was very happy I could borrow a crucial title from
@archive.org
The alternative would have been to buy it for 10% of my total pay from Abebooks and have it shipped around the globe Or not use it at all
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More than 500,000 books have been removed from our lending library due to the publishers’ lawsuit, including more than 1,300 banned and challenged titles. 📚🕳️ Sign our open letter to the publishers urging them to restore access to these books. 📖✍️ #LetReadersRead 👉 blog.archive.org/2024/06/17/l...
“I live in a very small town in the Portuguese countryside and this was my main source of information related to my job has an archaeologist.” Joel S. C. Gouveia, Portugal
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‪Opal - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉‬ ‪@opaltiger.bsky.social‬
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Reply to
Violet Purple
Please leave the internet archive alone, they are desperately trying to save our cultural knowledge from the digital maw. They are librarians. Go after profit obsessed publishers and big tech instead
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More than 500,000 books have been removed from our lending library due to the publishers’ lawsuit, including more than 1,300 banned and challenged titles. 📚🕳️ Sign our open letter to the publishers urging them to restore access to these books. 📖✍️
👉 blog.archive.org/2024/06/17/l...
“I live in a very small town in the Portuguese countryside and this was my main source of information related to my job has an archaeologist.” Joel S. C. Gouveia, Portugal
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📚 Attention Readers & Researchers More than 500,000 books have been removed from our lending library due to the publishers' lawsuit. Have you been affected? Share your story with us and help us fight to restore access.
👉 forms.gle/G2GXK6xwMZ3t...
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Share Your Story: The Impact of Losing Access to 500,000 Books
The publishers' lawsuit against the Internet Archive (Hachette v. Internet Archive) has resulted in the removal of more than 500,000 books from our lending library, including over 1,300 banned and cha...
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‪dweb.bsky.social‬ ‪@dweb.bsky.social‬
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Starting in ~1 hour! 🌲 June 2024 DWeb Virtual Meetup on sustaining and measuring the impact of public goods. 🌲 Following the event, come join us in Gather Town for an informal hang out and chat with friends old and new! www.eventbrite.com/e/june-2024-...
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June 2024 DWeb Meetup — Sustaining and Measuring the Impact of Public Goods
Join us for this virtual meetup discussion on sustainable funding and impact measurements for physical or digital public goods.
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What if online platforms were designed with democracy in mind? GOVERNABLE SPACES presents projects doing just that. Learn about ambitious, Bay Area-based projects that enable ordinary users to co-govern their online lives. 📅 June 8 ⏰ 4pm PT 🎟️: lu.ma/governable-s...
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Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Everyday Tech · Luma
What would it look like if online platforms were designed with democracy in mind? This event presents projects that are doing just that—building values like…
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‪Internet Archive‬ ‪@archive.org‬
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Our Monthly Giving Circle can access exclusive virtual events. Next up: Mark Graham, Director of the Wayback Machine, for a conversation around the Internet Archive & journalism! To access this event & other perks, join our Monthly Giving Circle: blog.archive.org/2024/06/03/j...
Webcast: Journalism and the Internet Archive with Mark Graham
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‪Kay Savetz‬ ‪@savetz.bsky.social‬
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I uploaded to
@archive.org
an educational computer game dev company document I've waited for for years: SUPERBOOTS Business Plan (1984) archive.org/details/supe... Superboots lab was at the Capital Children's Museum in D.C., sponsored by Atari. Its 1st (only?) program was PAINT! for Atari 8-bits.
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SUPERBOOTS Business Plan : Peter S. Hirshberg, David Penzias : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Superboots was an educational software development effort sponsored by Atari. The Superboots software development lab was located at the Capital Children's...
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If only the DDoS attack we faced looked as intriguing as the viruses in our Malware Museum... Check out the collection, as featured in our Best of the Archive newsletter: mailchi.mp/archive.org/...
Rainbow-hued graphic from malware
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Yes, we're under a DDoS attack, but we're still rolling with our Public Domain Movie Night this Friday! Watch "Show People" starring Marion Davies. 🎬🍿 Come support and enjoy! 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/marion-dav...
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Marion Davies in "Show People" Screening - Hosted by the Internet Archive
Aspiring actress Peggy seeks fame in Hollywood aided by comedian Billy. But as her stardom rises, will it overshadow his?
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Sorry to say, archive.org is under a ddos attack. The data is not affected, but most services are unavailable. We are working on it & will post updates in comments.
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Interested in the effects of disinformation on democracy? Join our VIRTUAL
with BARBARA McQUADE, author of the NYT bestseller ATTACK FROM WITHIN. Co-hosted with Authors Alliance. 📅 June 6 ⏰ 10am PT / 1pm ET 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...
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Book Talk: Attack from Within
Join us for a VIRTUAL book talk with BARBARA McQUADE on her NYT bestseller, ATTACK FROM WITHIN, about disinformation's impact on democracy.
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Why is The Wayback Machine so important for preserving our digital culture? According to new analysis from Pew Research Center: ❌ 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible ❌ 23% of news webpages contain at least one broken link 🔗 www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...
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When Online Content Disappears
A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible.
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📣 If you’re in the Bay Area this afternoon, come celebrate the 10th anniversary of Authors Alliance, featuring a keynote from Cory Doctorow! Tickets are still available 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/authorship...
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Authorship in an Age of Monopoly and Moral Panics
Join us to celebrate Authors Alliance’s 10th Anniversary, live and in-person!
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‪Ian Linkletter‬ ‪@linkletter.bsky.social‬
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I'll never forget my dinner with Brewster Kahle (and other brilliant folks) at the Internet Archive Canada headquarters. I am so inspired.
Ian Linkletter and Brewster Kahle smiling and standing next to the Internet Archive Canada's servers.
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🌐 Ever wonder what happens to .gov websites before & after presidential elections? We archive them! Help our team preserve US government info by nominating sites today 👉 blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
Screenshots of whitehouse.gov from Presidents Bush, Obama, Trump & Biden.
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‪Julian "Jaz" Rignall‬ ‪@jazrignall.bsky.social‬
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our occasional reminder that pretty much every video game magazine ever has been scanned and is browsable on @archive.org . It's an incredible resource: archive.org/details/comp... archive.org/details/vide... archive.org/details/comp...
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Explore your dream destination (like the streets of Osaka pictured here) with our collection of Street Scenes from 160 cities worldwide, all from the comfort of home. Check out this month’s Best of the Archive newsletter: mailchi.mp/archive.org/...
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Take a Walk Around the World
All from the comfort of your home, with our collection of pedestrian footage from cities across the globe
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When the Harkness Eye Institute moved after 90+ years, the fate of the library within was in question. Some materials moved, but not the large runs of bound, print journals. That's when our donations team sprang into action to help preserve these useful materials 👉 blog.archive.org/2024/05/06/e...
“I did not realize the Internet Archive would take a collection like this. People spent huge amounts of effort putting these works together. It would have been unfortunate to just throw it all away.” Dr. Daniel Casper, Columbia University professor emeritus
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NEXT WEEK: Join our chat between authors
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social
&
@tedunderwood.me
📚 In BIG FICTION, Sinykin explores how changes in the publishing industry have affected fiction, literary form & what it means to be an author. 📅 Thurs, May 9 @ 10am PT / 1pm ET 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...
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Book Talk: Big Fiction
Author DAN SINYKIN explores how changes in the publishing industry have affected fiction, literary form & what it means to be an author.
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‪David Menestres‬ ‪@abstracttruth.bsky.social‬
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Tortoise has 175 shows going back to 1992 for your listening pleasure at
@archive.org
‪Sarah Hennies‬ ‪@sarahhennies.bsky.social‬
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I just found out kind of by accident that a Tortoise/Sea & Cake show I saw thirty fucking years ago is just out there on the internet for me to listen to whenever I want. archive.org/details/Tort...
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https://archive.org/details/Tortoise1995-05-07/Tortoise1995-05-07d1t01.flac
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‪Joe Germuska‬ ‪@joe.germuska.com‬
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Thanks to
@archive.org
for the pointer to this excavation of Psyche Pscene, a late 60's early 70's independent zine published here in Chicago jessejarnow.com/2024/04/psyc...
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psyche pscene, 1967-1972 : Jesse Jarnow
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🗣️ Free range archivist Jason Scott takes Whisper, the open source speech recognition project, out for a spin on 5+ years worth of his weekly podcasts, preserved on archive.org ▶️ blog.archive.org/2024/04/28/t...
Sample transcript from Whisper
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In the Archive, embracing your inner child is always encouraged! Give it a try by parsing through this collection of Chuck E. Cheese merchandise from the 90s and early aughts. This and more in our April Best of the Archive Newsletter: mailchi.mp/archive.org/...
Chuck E. Cheese coupons
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Move over Mickey...Let's give a round of applause to Tigger, who also moved into the public domain this year, thanks to his debut in 1928's "The House at Pooh Corner" 📚🐯 Read, remix, and share for free! archive.org/details/the-...
Illustration of Winnie the Pooh meeting Tigger for the first time, from The House at Pooh Corner (1928).
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Reply to
Life Is Amazing publisher
Because that's not the law in the US? In any case, it's not the libraries themselves that make Public Lending Right payments in the UK, the money comes from central government. web.archive.org/web/20230129...
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Public Lending Right: About us
PLR is the right for authors to receive payment for the loans of their books by public libraries
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Today, we filed our final brief in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the publishers’ lawsuit against our library. For four years we've been fighting for library rights—what our founder, Brewster Kahle, calls “a battle for the soul of libraries in the digital age.” 👉 blog.archive.org/2024/04/19/i...
Internet Archive logo in white on black.
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‪John Conor Ryan‬ ‪@johnconorryan.bsky.social‬
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Please read this clear and important thread on how preposterous the arguments are against
@archive.org
and its important project of digitizing books for you and for posterity. Summary: there's no case of harm caused by the Archive's work. Thanks
@fightforthefuture.org
‪Fight for the Future‬ ‪@fightforthefuture.org‬
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Tomorrow, #InternetArchive will file their reply brief in the suit from major #publishers to end the right of IA and all #libraries to own and preserve spyware-free digital #books. Reading what they’re replying to, we’ve gotta ask: Who is the real “Napster” here? A thread.
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Internet Archive's founder & digital librarian, Brewster Kahle, reflects on last week's move by the island nation of Aruba to endorse digital rights for memory institutions. Why is it so important for libraries to own, not lease, their collections? 👉 blog.archive.org/2024/04/18/a...
“The ‘Spotify for Books’ model is not the way we want our libraries to go.” Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive
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‪Fight for the Future‬ ‪@fightforthefuture.org‬
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Tomorrow,
will file their reply brief in the suit from major
to end the right of IA and all
to own and preserve spyware-free digital
. Reading what they’re replying to, we’ve gotta ask: Who is the real “Napster” here? A thread.
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“Give them the opportunity to search for the truth.” That’s what the Prime Minister of Aruba, Evelyn Wever-Croes, said about the next generation of digital learners in a conversation yesterday with our founder, Brewster Kahle. Aruba is leading the way! blog.archive.org/2024/04/09/a...
Brewster Kahle talks with the Prime Minister of Aruba in her office.
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Aruba leads the way as the FIRST nation to sign a statement safeguarding the digital rights of memory organizations online. 🌐 This historic move sets a powerful precedent for protecting our digital heritage. Read more: blog.archive.org/2024/04/09/a...
From left: Aruba’s National Librarian, Astrid Britten (Director, Biblioteca Nacional Aruba), signs the statement protecting memory organizations online as Raymond Hernandez (Director, Archivo Nacional Aruba) and Brewster Kahle (Founder, Internet Archive) look on.
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Join us for a showing of "Charade," the Audrey Hepburn / Cary Grant classic that accidentally entered the public domain in the US upon its release because of a copyright notice omission. 📍 300 Funston,
📆 Friday, April 12 ⏰ Doors @ 6:30pm, film @ 7 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/audrey-hep...
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Audrey Hepburn in
Enjoy this stylish thriller starring Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant. The screening will be held in the vintage Internet Archive Greatroom!
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When we all went remote 4 years ago, our staff struggled to stay connected. After some trial & error, we landed on something we're still doing to this day—we hire musicians to perform before our weekly zoom staff meetings! And yes, they're archived: blog.archive.org/2024/04/01/e...
Essential Music Concerts from Home
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Have you reserved your seat for this week's book talk? Unlocking the Digital Age: The Musician's Guide to Research, Copyright, and Publishing by Andrea I. Copland and Kathleen DeLaurenti Online Wed, Apr 3 10am PT / 1pm ET www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...
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Book Talk: Unlocking the Digital Age
Join us for a book talk with ANDREA I. COPLAND & KATHLEEN DeLAURENTI, helping early career musicians navigate the digital era.
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Learn how Forbes Library used Internet Archive's Community Webs program to help curate a more inclusive historical record about the history of Black lives in rural New England: blog.archive.org/2024/03/20/a...
A family in Hatfield, ca. 1889. L.H. Kingsley, photographer.
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If you've toured the Internet Archive with Brewster Kahle, there's always a stop to play "Prince of Persia" on our emulator. So you can imagine the fun when PoP game designer Jordan Mechner stopped by to talk about software preservation! Chat with Jordan tomorrow: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...
Jordan Mechner & Brewster Kahle play Prince of Persia.
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Don't worry if you missed the curtain call. 🎭 We've got you covered with 85 years of preserved playbills from Sumter Little Theatre, dating back to 1939. Check them out in this month's Best of the Archive newsletter: mailchi.mp/archive.org/...
Playbill detail for Sumter Little Theatre’s production of Anything Goes
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‪Maria BuSTILETTOooos‬ ‪@mariabustillos.bsky.social‬
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ASU University Librarian Jim O'Donnell on the implications of the
@archive.org
lawsuit, distilled into a single, simple question: How Do We Rescue the Past? popula.com/2024/03/25/a...
The future of intellectual property is bound up with accessibility, use, and reuse. A book or article that is not accessible in the space of intelligent consumption—a digitally dominated space—will disappear forever, like an ancient poet who never managed to get copied into the newfangled codex technology and lies today in the sands of Egypt hoping, for the most part in vain, that some archaeologist may yet dig up his papyrus roll. When (not if) humankind outsources much of what we now call reading to bots and agents and other AI interventions yet unborn, the inaccessible intellectual object will simply no longer have a meaningful existence.
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Last night's showing of LOST LANDSCAPES at the Internet Archive was a powerful reminder of the magic that happens when community comes together. 📽️ Library spaces help foster connection, nostalgia & preservation of memories. Thank you to all who joined us! Link to watch in comments ⬇️
People watch Lost Landscapes in the Great Room of the Internet Archive.
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JUST IN: Librarians and copyright scholars Kyle K. Courtney and Dave Hansen give their first impressions of the publishers' reply brief, released today, in the lawsuit against our library: kylecourtney.com/publishers-r...
Publishers’ reply brief in Hachette v. Internet Archive: First Impressions
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"During the pandemic, the importance of digital library access became strikingly apparent. It is unfortunate that the Publishers chose that moment of national emergency to sue a non-profit library for loaning books digitally."
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‪Rezi Orenji 😺🎵 ENVtuber‬ ‪@reziorenji.bsky.social‬
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The waiting room for my charity stream on Saturday is now up!! Check in the replies for the link, click that notification bell, and get ready for 12 nonstop hours of INTERNET ARCHIVE with GUESTS! GAMES! AND MORE!
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The stakes of the lawsuit against our library are clear: Libraries must have the right to innovate and adapt to new technology, so that we can continue preserving knowledge in the digital age. eff.org/document/hac...
"This case presents an opportunity for the Court to make clear that libraries, acting within the law, have the imperative to deploy technologies and build innovative services in furtherance of broad access to information." Kevin L. Smith and William M. Cross, library and information scholars, amicus brief in Hachette v. Internet Archive
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When Beth Noveck donated her father's library to the Internet Archive for preservation & digitization, she used the DONATE BOOKS app to identify books that we didn’t already own. Learn about the app: help.archive.org/help/donate-... Learn about the Noveck donation: blog.archive.org/2024/03/11/t...
Donate Books app logo in blue & black.
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The Book Collector’s Legacy 📚 We are honored to share the story behind the donation of the personal library of Rabbi Simon Noveck & his wife, Doris. Learn how the Noveck family worked with our donations team to preserve this unique collection: blog.archive.org/2024/03/11/t...
Simon & Doris Noveck. Image credit: Reiner Leist, American Portraits Prestel Publishing, 1999
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The 90s are back! Relive the decade with this publicly available version of popular drawing software, Kid Pix! As featured in our monthly collections highlight email: mailchi.mp/archive.org/...
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