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University of California Libraries to partner with Archive-It
This week, the University of California California Digital Libraries and the UC Libraries announced a partnership with Internet Archive’s Archive-It Service. In the coming year, CDL’s Web Archiving Service (WAS) collections and all core infrastructure activities, i.e., crawling, indexing, search, … Continue reading
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Partnership Promotes Jobs and Builds Free Global Library
As part of their Building Libraries Together initiative the Internet Archive is testing a new socially-responsible jobs model with Bay Area Rescue Mission (BARM) of Richmond, California. The Internet Archive has been digitizing books for nearly 10 years, but needed … Continue reading
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Lost Landscapes of San Francisco: Fundraiser Benefitting Internet Archive — Friday, December 19, 2014
Rick Prelinger’s Lost Landscapes of San Francisco is back for one final performance this year! Now you can catch this perennially sold-out show and your ticket donation will benefit the Internet Archive, a nonprofit digital library which hosts the Prelinger Collection. Please give … Continue reading
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New York Times: The Internet Archive, Trying to Encompass All Creation
Thanks to the New York Times for doing a great write-up of our annual celebration. Check it out!
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Archive of Contemporary Music and the Internet Archive Team up to Create a Music Library
When the personal record collection of music producer Bob George hit 47,000 discs, he knew something had to be done. “I wanted to give them away, but they were mostly punk, reggae and hip-hop,” he recalled, “and no established library … Continue reading
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Archive-It: Crawling the Web Together
A post by the Archive-It team Today Phase 1 of the 5.0 release of the Archive-It web application was released for use by the 326 partners using the Archive-It service. In 1996 when the Internet Archive was founded, we used … Continue reading
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Millions of historic images posted to Flickr
by Robert Miller, Global Director of Books, Internet Archive “Reading a book from the inside out!”. Well not quite, but a new way to read our eBooks has just been launched. Check out this great BBC article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28976849 Here is … Continue reading
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Zoia Horn, librarian and activist, dies
July 12, 2014 marked the passing of an extraordinary librarian, Zoia Horn. Ms. Horn was best known in library circles for spending three weeks in jail in 1972 for having refused to testify before a grand jury regarding information relating … Continue reading
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Happy Hour at The Interval, Tuesday July 8 at 6pm
The Long Now Foundation works to encourage long term thinking in our increasingly “now” oriented culture (read more about them and their projects below). Long Now just opened a new cafe, bar and event space called The Interval at Fort Mason Center. … Continue reading
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