Author Archives: chrisfreeland

About chrisfreeland

Chris Freeland is the Director of Open Libraries at Internet Archive.

Revised wish list now available: 1.5M books we want

Posted on September 10, 2018 by chrisfreeland

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

Posted on May 21, 2018 by chrisfreeland

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 →

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Let’s Build a Great Digital Library Together…Starting with a Wishlist

Posted on March 14, 2018 by chrisfreeland

We are looking for partners to help us build a great physical collection of books to be preserved, digitized, and made available through our Open Libraries project. Working with more than 500 library partners, the Internet Archive has already helped … Continue reading →

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