Category Archives: Announcements

12 Hours Dark: Internet Archive vs. Censorship

Posted on January 17, 2012 by brewster

The Internet Archive believes that it is critical to protest and raise awareness of pending legislation in the United States:  House Bill 3261, The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and S.968, the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). Archive.org is going dark … Continue reading →

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Happy News Year! An Exhibit of International News

Posted on January 4, 2012 by brewster

In celebration of the new year, we’d like to take you on a tour of news broadcasts from around January 1st from more than 60 stations in 30 countries. We hope the Happy News Year exhibit will highlight the amazing … Continue reading →

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Please Donate to the Internet Archive

Posted on December 7, 2011 by brewster

Dear Supporters of the Archive, In the last year, the number of people using the Internet Archive has increased to two million people every day, and our collections of free books, music, video, and web pages have also grown by … Continue reading →

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Thank you Friends of the SF Public Library for 130,000 books

Posted on October 3, 2011 by brewster

130,000 books, records, and videos were donated and then cataloged, de-duplicated, and readied for scanning and long term preservation in 2 days.   Thank you to the Friends of SFPL for our largest public donation ever.   With this, we believe we … Continue reading →

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3 Million Texts for Free

Posted on September 17, 2011 by brewster

Hundreds of libraries reached the milestone of offering 3 million freely downloadable texts yesterday through the Internet Archive website.  Our 3 millionth text is a Galileo pamphlet from the rare book collection of the University of Toronto. Internet Archive has … Continue reading →

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Understanding 9/11: A Television News Archive

Posted on August 24, 2011 by internetarchive

We are proud to announce the launch of Understanding 9/11: A Television News Archive, a library of news coverage of the events of 9/11/2001 and their aftermath as presented by U.S. and international broadcasters. A resource for scholars, journalists and … Continue reading →

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In-Library eBook Lending Program Expands to 1,000 Libraries

Posted on June 25, 2011 by internetarchive

Internet Archive announces 1,000 Library Partners from 6 countries have joined to build and lend a pool of 100,000+ eBooks; Extending the Traditional In-Library Lending Model. San Francisco, CA – Today, the Internet Archive announced that the 1,000th library from … Continue reading →

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Why Preserve Books? The New Physical Archive of the Internet Archive

Posted on June 6, 2011 by internetarchive

by Brewster Kahle, June 2011 Books are being thrown away, or sometimes packed away, as digitized versions become more available. This is an important time to plan carefully for there is much at stake. Digital technologies are changing both how … Continue reading →

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In-Library eBook Lending Program Launched

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Grace Neveu

Internet Archive and Library Partners Develop Joint Collection of 80,000+ eBooks To Extend Traditional In-Library Lending Model San Francisco, CA – Today, a group of libraries led by the Internet Archive announced a new, cooperative 80,000+ eBook lending collection of … Continue reading →

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Digitizing All Balinese Literature

Posted on January 30, 2011 by Grace Neveu

The Balinese, with the help of the Internet Archive and Ron Jenkins of Wesleyan University, have started digitizing the libraries of Balinese literature. They are in the running for being the first culture to have their entire literature go online, … Continue reading →

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Internet Archive Needs Your Help

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Grace Neveu

DEAR FRIENDS OF THE ARCHIVE This year the Internet Archive needs your help. In 2009-2010 we were able to employ hundreds of low income, out of work parents using a stimulus wage subsidy. Most of these parents worked to scan … Continue reading →

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Over 1 Million Digital Books Now Available Free to the Print-Disabled

Posted on November 26, 2010 by Grace Neveu

Associated Press Story The books on our Open Library site. Press release: More than doubling the number of books available to print disabled people of all ages, today the Internet Archive launched a new service that brings free access to … Continue reading →

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SF Event: Books in Browsers

Posted on October 23, 2010 by Grace Neveu

130 publishers, librarians, toolmakers, booksellers gathered to re-imagine and re-invent the book ecosystem in the digital world including a speech celebrating it. Books in Browsers to read, buy, and borrow. -brewster

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Digital Lending Library

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Grace Neveu

Checking out digital versions of books that are automatically returned after two weeks is as easy as logging onto the Internet Archive’s Open Library site, announced digital librarian and Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle. By integrating this new service, more … Continue reading →

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Milestone reached! 250,000 books from uToronto

Posted on June 25, 2010 by Grace Neveu

When I talked with Carole Moore, the fantastic librarian from University of Toronto, about 6 years ago, she had a vision of scanning 250,000 books from their libraries. Well, a few days ago she succeeded. ( http://www.archive.org/details/university_of_toronto ) It has … Continue reading →

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Millions of documents from over 350k federal court cases now freely available

Posted on April 6, 2010 by internetarchive

Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy, working with the Internet Archive and volunteers has launched RECAP, a project to make US Federal Court Documents available for no cost to the public. RECAP is a Firefox Internet browser extension that … Continue reading →

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Two Million Free Texts Now Available

Posted on March 31, 2010 by internetarchive

The Internet Archive is pleased to announce an important manuscript, Homiliary on Gospels from Easter to first Sunday of Advent, as the 2,000,000th free digital text. Internet Archive has been scanning books and making them available for researchers, historians, scholars, … Continue reading →

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Awards for the Internet Archive

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Grace Neveu

The Internet Archive received 2 awards recently that we are proud of. One is for social benefit from the Free Software Foundation. Coming from those that helped restructure the software domain in the era of burdensome copyrights and patents, we … Continue reading →

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Open Library Redesign soft launch on special url

Posted on March 17, 2010 by internetarchive

Open Library, a project of the Internet Archive, is a site with a web page for every book. It strives to become a wikipedia of books. 23M books, over 1 million free ebooks, wiki editable, completely great. A new version … Continue reading →

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70,000 books from Cornell Libraries online now

Posted on February 12, 2010 by internetarchive

Today Cornell and the Internet Archive announce that over 70,000 public-domain books are available free online (many still to come). These are beautiful books that are now available with no restrictions. Thank you Cornell, Kirtas, and Microsoft. The Internet Archive … Continue reading →

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