Category Archives: Announcements

Top 10 Reasons to Support the Internet Archive

Posted on November 26, 2019 by Wendy Hanamura

Today, the Internet Archive launches is End of Year Fundraising Campaign. We’re lucky to have a 2-to-1 Matching Grant for the next few weeks, so your impact will be tripled if you give today. Of the 1.1 million people who use … Continue reading →

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Fighting Misinformation Online

Posted on October 30, 2019 by Lila Bailey

On Tuesday, the Internet Archive joined Public Knowledge, the Wikimedia Foundation and the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic from Berkeley Law to brief the Congressional Internet Caucus on efforts to combat misinformation online. Misinformation is a complex issue … Continue reading →

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Weaving Books into the Web—Starting with Wikipedia

Posted on October 29, 2019 by Brewster Kahle

[announcement video, Wired] The Internet Archive has transformed 130,000 references to books in Wikipedia into live links to 50,000 digitized Internet Archive books in several Wikipedia language editions including English, Greek, and Arabic. And we are just getting started. By … Continue reading →

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The Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now is New and Improved

Posted on October 23, 2019 by Mark Graham

Every day hundreds of millions of web pages are archived to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. Tens of millions of them submitted by users like you using our Save Page Now service. You can now do that in a way … Continue reading →

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Unlocking the Potential for Every High School Library: 2019 Internet Archive Hero Award

Posted on October 23, 2019 by Lila Bailey

Announced today, Phillips Academy has received the Hero Award from the Internet Archive for its leadership in adopting controlled digital lending for school libraries. The Hero Award is presented annually to an organization that exhibits leadership in making its holdings … Continue reading →

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How the Internet Archive is Digitizing LPs to Preserve Generations of Audio

Posted on October 23, 2019 by Faye Lessler

Imagine if your favorite song or nostalgic recording from childhood was lost forever. This could be the fate of hundreds of thousands of audio files stored on vinyl, except that the Internet Archive is now expanding its digitization project to … Continue reading →

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Everyone Deserves to Learn

Posted on October 22, 2019 by Lila Bailey

The nation’s K-12 school libraries are hurting. Although the student population is rising in many districts, the number of librarians and media specialists dropped by nearly 20 percent from 2000 to 2015. Budgets are being reduced and some schools are … Continue reading →

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Calculating the True Value of A Library that is Free

Posted on October 22, 2019 by Wendy Hanamura

By Omar Rafik El-Sabrout We live in the era of Venmo and CashApp, when after a nice meal with friends, you no longer have to argue over who will pick up the bill. On the surface, this is an extremely … Continue reading →

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Jai Hind! Jai Gyan! India on the Internet Archive

Posted on October 20, 2019 by Carl Malamud

In India, many speeches begin or end with the phrase “Jai Hind.” Jai means “long live” and “Hind” of course is the great Republic of India, the largest democracy in the world. Jawaharlal Nehru popularized this phrase, and it became … Continue reading →

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The Wayback Machine: Fighting Digital Extinction in New Ways

Posted on October 18, 2019 by John Hickey

Extinction isn’t just a biological issue. In the 21st century, it’s a technical, even digital one, too. The average web page might last three months before it’s altered or deleted forever. You never know when access to the information on … Continue reading →

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