Category Archives: News

Giving New Life to Out-of-Print Books Through Controlled Digital Lending

Posted on September 19, 2019 by Lila Bailey

Dean Bartoli Smith’s book of poetry about growing up in Baltimore came out in 2000. American Boy was long past its sales life until it was resurrected by being digitized by the Internet Archive and made available through one-at-a-time digital … Continue reading →

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Internet Archive & DPLA’s Enhanced Mueller Report Wins Best Non-Fiction Book of 2019 from Digital Book World

Posted on September 13, 2019 by Jenica Jessen

This week, the Internet Archive and Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) were honored for the Best Book of 2019 at the annual Digital Book World Awards for their work to create an enhanced version of the Mueller Report. The … Continue reading →

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Boston Public Library Leads Once Again in Digital Lending

Posted on September 10, 2019 by Lila Bailey

By continuing to find new opportunities to make older books, often lost or just inaccessible to the public, available online, Boston Public Library is sparking new enthusiasm among the reading public. “It’s like a giant treasure hunt for book lovers … Continue reading →

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MIT Press Embraces New Access Models to Fulfill Mission

Posted on September 4, 2019 by Lila Bailey

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Press was the first university press to sign an agreement with the Internet Archive to scan older print books for which it had no digital copies to make them available for one-at-a-time lending, a … Continue reading →

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Protecting Books From Harm With Controlled Digital Lending

Posted on August 28, 2019 by Lila Bailey

Michelle Wu began working at the University of Houston Law Library in the wake of flooding from Tropical Storm Allison in 2001. Some parts of the city had 14 feet of water and the library took in at least 8 … Continue reading →

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SAVE THE DATE: Internet Archive’s Biggest Party of the Year

Posted on August 28, 2019 by Wendy Hanamura

This October, the Internet Archive is going global and we invite you to join us for World Night Market, Wednesday, October 23rd from 5-9 PM at our headquarters in San Francisco. This annual bash is your passport to explore the … Continue reading →

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Helping Libraries Transform their Physical Collections

Posted on August 20, 2019 by chrisfreeland

This is the first in a series of blog posts highlighting how libraries and publishers are addressing the challenges of providing digital access to materials in their print collections.  Using controlled digital lending, libraries and publishers have a new model … Continue reading →

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Librarians Share Benefits of Controlled Digital Lending

Posted on August 8, 2019 by Lila Bailey

This summer, representatives from the Internet Archive joined librarians and advocates in Washington D.C., to talk with  policymakers about how Controlled Digital Lending, or CDL, helps their communities. The resounding response from Congressional offices was that CDL “just makes sense” … Continue reading →

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Remembering the First DWeb Camp, July 2019

Posted on July 31, 2019 by francessawyer

By Frances Sawyer With a sharp yip and a deep ‘Ohhh’ cried into the Pacific evening sky, Kanyon “Coyote Woman” Sayers-Roods welcomed hackers, activists, artists, policymakers, and engineers from around the globe to the California Coast, traditional land of the … Continue reading →

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Summertime in the Internet Archive Stacks

Posted on July 30, 2019 by Jason Scott

Around the Internet Archive headquarters (and most of the United States), it’s summertime, meaning high temperatures, a lot of kids out of school, and a sense of taking it easy and being up for some relaxing and fun walks through … Continue reading →

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