Category Archives: News

Wasted: A case study for controlled digital lending

Posted on November 13, 2018 by chrisfreeland

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 →

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Bread and Puppet Theater: The Basic Bye-bye Show

Posted on November 1, 2018 by jeff kaplan

On October 27, 2018 The Internet Archive presented The Basic Bye-bye Show by the Bread and Puppet Theater.  The Basic Bye-bye Show is a series of quiet object fantasies in black, white, and grey inside a small fabric stage printed with … Continue reading →

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Decades of music celebrating Audiovisual Heritage

Posted on October 27, 2018 by Alexis Rossi

In honor of World Day for Audiovisual Heritage (October 27) we’d like to take you on a brief tour through seven decades of digitized music and audio recordings from 1900 through 1970.  We’ve been working to digitize 78rpm discs for the … Continue reading →

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Bread and Puppet Theater: The Basic Bye-bye Show

Posted on October 19, 2018 by BZ Petroff

[Now done, some pictures from the event] The Internet Archive is proud to present a show by the Bread and Puppet Theater on Saturday October 27, 2018 at 7:00 pm.  The Basic Bye-bye Show is a series of quiet object fantasies … Continue reading →

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“Make It Weird”: Building a collaborative public library web archive in an arts and counterculture community

Posted on October 18, 2018 by jefferson

This post is reposted from the Archive-It blog and written by guest author Dylan Gaffney of the Forbes Library, one of the public libraries participating in the Community Webs program. Whether documenting the indie music scene of the 1990s, researching the … Continue reading →

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Soundwave 8 Biennial Festival at the Internet Archive: XUXA SANTAMARIA

Posted on October 16, 2018 by BZ Petroff

We are excited to have the experimental music and video duo XUXA SANTAMARIA perform an original work “Untitled (Wall)” at the Internet Archive as part of the Soundwave 8 Biennial Festival on Friday October 26, 2018 at 7pm. XUXA SANTAMARIA … Continue reading →

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Low Vision? Disability? 1.8 Million digital books free, now Worldwide

Posted on October 16, 2018 by Brewster Kahle

  You can take action now to expand access to 1.8million books worldwide. Individuals can qualify now to access 1.8 million digitized books, free.   Internet Archive has recently expanded its program for those with low vision and disabilities. Libraries, hospitals, … Continue reading →

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The Music Modernization Act is now law which means some pre-1972 music goes public

Posted on October 15, 2018 by jeff kaplan

The Music Modernization Act is now US law and the final version of this bill, which seeks to fix a wide range of problems in music copyright law, is not perfect, but it’s better than the version we opposed a … Continue reading →

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Seder-Masochism Screening at the Internet Archive

Posted on October 12, 2018 by BZ Petroff

The Internet Archive presents the movie Seder-Masochism by Nina Paley on Saturday October 13 at 7:30 pm at our headquarters in San Francisco, with a discussion with Nina Paley afterwards. The doors will open at 7:00 pm. Seder-Masochism is a … Continue reading →

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Internet Archive expands access to millions of books for people with disabilities

Posted on October 11, 2018 by John Gonzalez

Now, disabled users that are certified by a growing number of organizations can borrow hundreds of thousands of modern books and download mostly older books all for free. Individuals that are already a qualified user of  NLS-BARD, Bookshare, or Ontario … Continue reading →

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