eBooks: A Live Stream of the Books in Browsers Event Later This Week Will Be...
If you have an interest in ebooks, the future of publishing, future of reading, etc. the following event will be of interest. In fact, it’s required viewing. This Thursday and Friday at the Internet...
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Milestones: Internet Archive Digitizes 5000th Book at Duke University
The Scribe Scanner From the Devil’s Tale Blog (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University): The Internet Archive just reached an important milestone by digitizing 5,000...
View ArticleInternet Archive Will "Go Dark" For 12 Hours Tommorrow to Protest/Raise...
Stay Tuned for More Details About IA Services “Going Dark Tomorrow” From an Internet Archive Blog Post by Brewster Kahle: The Internet Archive believes that it is critical to protest and raise...
View ArticleDigitization: Montreal's Jewish Public Library Yiddish Audio Collection to Go...
From The Canadian Jewish News Thousands of hours of Yiddish audio books and literary programming taped at the Jewish Public Library (JPL) from at least the early 1950s are about to enter the digital...
View ArticleMontana: "New State Librarian Leads Digitization"
From the Helena Independent Record: Not that long ago, the Montana State Library, in charge of making state documents available to the public, circulated just a few hundred publications outside its...
View ArticleThe Internet Archive's "Physical Archive" Profiled in New York Times
From the NY Times Article, “In a Flood Tide of Digital Data, an Ark Full of Books”: Forty-foot shipping containers stacked two by two are stuffed with the most enduring, as well as some of the most...
View ArticleAudio: Internet Archive Founder Brewster Kahle Interviewed on Canada's CBC Radio
Internet archivist Brewster Kahle chatted with host Jim Brown during CBC’s “Q” program on Tuesday morning. You can listen to the interview here. It begins at 1:51 in the program and runs about 14...
View ArticleInternet Archive Launches All-HD Collection of 35mm Stock Footage (Free)
via Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing: Rick Prelinger sez: I’m delighted to let everyone know about our newest Internet Archive collection which, for want of a cooler title, we’re calling 35mm Stock Footage....
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Brown University: John Carter Brown Library Puts Historic Documents Online
From The Brown Daily Herald: The John Carter Brown Library is home to more than 50,000 rare books and 16,000 reference books and secondary sources. But due to the changing nature of students’ study...
View ArticleWell Deserved Praise for Brewster Kahle
The following comments (and more) appear in a Times Colonist (Victoria, British Columbia) column by Dave Obee. Brewster and his wife were visiting Vancouver Island earlier this week. We 100% agree with...
View ArticleAdvertising: The Internet Archive Now Provides Access to AdViews Database of...
The AdViews database from the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History in Duke University’s Special Collection Library has been online for several years and offers...
View ArticleOnline Archive of University of Michigan Web Sites, Pages Now Publicly Available
The California Digital Library (CDL) has announced that the University of Michigan Web Archive curated by Nancy Deromedi and Michael Shallcross was recently made publicly access on the web. The...
View ArticleWeb Archiving: Cornell Selects Archive-It to Capture and Preserve 8 Million...
From The Cornell Daily Sun: Internet Archive will begin preserving Cornell’s online content starting this month after the University signed a contract with the Internet archiving company in March....
View ArticleeBooks: Almost 4 Million Editions From Open Library Now Include OCLC Numbers...
The Open Library collection of (and free to access) book info including many free full-text eBooks has just added the OCLC number and a direct link to the WorldCat bibliographic record for more than...
View ArticleEvent: June 5th In Richmond, CA: The Internet Archive Will Have an Open-House...
At the end of January we shared a link to a story about the Internet Archive purchasing a 45,000-square-foot building and the large yard next door at 2512 and 2514 Florida Ave. in Richmond, CA. If...
View ArticleVideo: Brewster Kahle Gives a Tour of the Book Scanning Area at the Internet...
David Weinberger the co-director of the Harvard Library and Innovation Lab, is sharing some more interesting and informative video with all of us. This time, we see and hear from Brewster Kahle, the...
View ArticleBrewster Kahle Asks "Why Preserve Books? The New Physical Archive of the...
The new Physical Archive of the Internet Archive officially launched over the weekend and IA Founder, Brewster Kahle, as written a fact filled overview about why there is a need to build a physical...
View ArticleThe Internet Archive Enables Its Digital Video Library to Support HTML5
From a News Release: The Internet Archive, the leading non-profit repository of digital media assets, announced today that it has adopted Kaltura’s Video solution to enable its entire digital video...
View ArticleNew Research Paper: "How Much of the Web is Archived?"
“How Much of the Web is Archived?” (3 pages; PDF) by Scott G. Ainsworth, Ahmed Alsum, Hany SalahEldeen, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson Presented at JCDL 2011 Earlier This Month From a Web...
View ArticleInternet Archive Canada Must Let 75% of Its Workforce Go
Some unfortunate news to begin the weekend. Let’s hope new funding for IA Canada will allow the program to cancel the need to let workers go or if the staff decrease does happen proper funding returns...
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