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An Old-fashioned Book Drive! Please help make the Open Library Book collection even bigger.
From Open Library: The Internet Archive has been scanning books for some years now, and we’re always looking for more. In addition to 1,000,000+ eBooks available to anyone available through Open Library, we’ve announced the release of modern books for … Continue reading
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Over 1 Million Digital Books Now Available Free to the Blind and Print-Disabled
The Washington Post is carrying the story of the new service launched today, Open Library Accessible Books. We’re really excited about this. The Open Library team has been working very hard to create a fantastic way to bring books to … Continue reading
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New York City
Just back from a sightseeing trip of New York City. After visiting so many famous landmarks I decided to check out what we have at the Archive. I dig the riveting machine in this movie of the construction of the … Continue reading
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Millions of documents from over 350k federal court cases now freely available
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
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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Announcing the Open Library redesign
We’re very excited to announce the “soft launch” of our brand new Open Library site! This is version 1 of a reconstructed Open Library, and we’re going to keep it “soft” at a special URL until we’re sure it’s stable … Continue reading
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Open Library Redesign soft launch on special url
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
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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Before, After and the writing quill
Being a graphic designer I take a keen interest in typography. I came across a book explaining the origins of roman, serif and cursive letterforms: http://www.archive.org/details/freehandletterin00wils I noticed it was copyright 1906. So, being from San Francisco it got me … Continue reading
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60,000 books from Library of Congress go online
Library of Congress wrote an article about their project to mass digitize brittle books. Almost 60,000 are available now and more are scanned every day. These books are in the public domain and come with no restrictions on their use. … Continue reading
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A Future for Books: BookServer launch event
The Internet Archive launched BookServer to a group of 500 in San Francisco. The BookServer is a new distributed lending and vending system for books on the Internet. We will demonstrate a live system where: Publishers and booksellers are selling … Continue reading
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Guest Blogger: Barbara Janis of the Presidio Trust
The Presidio Trust is a unique organization. It is a federal agency guiding the transformation of a former military post into a self-sufficient national park. The documents added to the Internet Archive record the steps in this evolution. The main … Continue reading
Celebrate Banned Books Week 2009
If you wander into your local bookstore or library within the next week, it’s likely you will see a shrine of sorts to banned books. Those who ban books work to lock up particular controversial writing from readers, but an … Continue reading
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Travels with the FWP
“To support writers, editors, researchers, and historians during the Great Depression, the United States government created a program called The Federal Writers’ Project as part of the Works Project Administration, under FDR’s New Deal. The most famous works coming out … Continue reading
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Tagged Federal Writers' Project, FWP, Prelinger Library, travel guides
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Special Collections From the UCLA Scanning Center
More and more libraries are partnering with Archive.org to provide online access to their special collections. With this post we feature some of the fascinating collections made available online by the University of California Los Angeles The UCLA Elmer Belt … Continue reading
The Library of Congress at Your Fingertips
To visit The Library of Congress has long been thought of as a distinguished event for the privileged few. Most people throughout the world are unable to get to Washington D.C., so the plethora of resources housed in the library … Continue reading
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Swirl, Sniff, Sip With The Bancroft Library
The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley preserves some of the most intriguing rare and hard-to-find books in the country. According to their Web site, their holdings include 60,000 manuscript items, 8,000,000 photographs/pictorial materials, 43,000 microforms, and 23,000 … Continue reading
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Home of the Brave
Gentlemen and ladies, please remove your hats for the singing of our national anthem. We sing it at the beginning of sporting events, during worship services, at memorials for veterans, and in grade school music class. The first verse of … Continue reading
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Tagged francis scott key, national anthem, star-spangled banner
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Yiddish Literature Online
A note from Internet Archive’s founder, Brewster Kahle: Over ten thousand Yiddish texts, estimated as over 1/2 of all the published works in Yiddish, are now online based on the work of the National Yiddish Book Center, volunteers, and the … Continue reading