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For the Love of Literacy–Better World Books and the Internet Archive Unite to Preserve Millions of Books
Announced today, Better World Books, the world’s leading socially conscious online bookseller, is now owned by Better World Libraries, a mission-aligned, not-for-profit organization that is affiliated with longtime partner, the Internet Archive. This groundbreaking partnership will allow both organizations to … Continue reading
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Controlled Digital Lending Takes Center Stage at Library Leaders Forum
The following blog post was written by freelance writer Caralee Adams about the Internet Archive’s Library Leaders Forum, held on October 23 at San Francisco Public Library. As enthusiasm grows for making library collections more accessible, the Internet Archive hosted … Continue reading
Posted in Books Archive, Education Archive, Event, Lending Books, News
Tagged controlled digital lending, Library, openlibrary
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Helping Libraries Transform their Physical Collections
This is the first in a series of blog posts highlighting how libraries and publishers are addressing the challenges of providing digital access to materials in their print collections. Using controlled digital lending, libraries and publishers have a new model … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Lending Books, News
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Hamilton Public Library joins Open Libraries
In an effort to meet users’ growing needs around access to library materials, Hamilton Public Library has joined the Internet Archive’s Open Libraries program. “In today’s rapidly changing access to digital content, it is important that the broader library community … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Books Archive, News, Open Library
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Boston Public Library’s 78rpm Records Come to the Internet: Reformatting the Boston Public Library Sound Archives
Following eighteen months of work, more than 50,000 78rpm record “sides” from the Boston Public Library’s sound archives have now been digitized and made freely available online by the Internet Archive. ”This project and the very generous support and … Continue reading
Posted in 78rpm, Announcements, Audio Archive, News
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Open Libraries Forum: recap & reflection
On October 18 more than 50 library leaders from across the U.S. and Canada joined us at our headquarters in San Francisco for our Open Libraries Forum. We’ve been holding an annual forum for more than ten years, using the … Continue reading
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Wasted: A case study for controlled digital lending
The recent nomination and appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court offered a timely opportunity to demonstrate how controlled digital lending can be used by libraries to circulate digital copies of books that are out of print or … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Books Archive, Lending Books, News
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Revised wish list now available: 1.5M books we want
Earlier this year we released our Open Libraries wish list, which brought together four datasets to help inform our collection development priorities for Open Libraries. After working with the wish list for a few months and reviewing our approach, we … Continue reading
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Internet Archive awarded grant from Arcadia Fund to digitize university press collections
Internet Archive has received a $1 million dollar grant from Arcadia – a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin – to digitize titles from university press collections to make them available via controlled digital lending. The project, Unlocking … Continue reading