Category Archives: Announcements

The Music Modernization Act is Bad for the Preservation of Sound Recordings

Posted on March 30, 2018 by Lila Bailey

There’s a bill working its way through Congress called the Music Modernization Act (the current bill is a mix of several bills, the portion we are concerned with was formerly called the CLASSICS Act) that has us very concerned about … Continue reading →

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Digital opportunity for the academic scholarly record

Posted on March 20, 2018 by Brewster Kahle

[MIT Libraries is holding a workshop on Grand Challenges for the scholarly record.  They asked participants for a problem/solution statement.  This is mine. -brewster kahle] The problem of academic scholarly record now: University library budgets are spent on closed rather … Continue reading →

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Some Very Entertaining Plastic, Emulated at the Archive

Posted on March 18, 2018 by Jason Scott

It’s been a little over 4 years since the Internet Archive started providing emulation in the browser from our software collection; millions of plays of games, utilities, and everything else that shows up on a screen have happened since then. … Continue reading →

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Let’s Build a Great Digital Library Together…Starting with a Wishlist

Posted on March 14, 2018 by chrisfreeland

We are looking for partners to help us build a great physical collection of books to be preserved, digitized, and made available through our Open Libraries project. Working with more than 500 library partners, the Internet Archive has already helped … Continue reading →

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10 Ways To Explore The Internet Archive For Free

Posted on March 7, 2018 by Katie Barrett

The Internet Archive is a treasure trove of fascinating media, texts, and ephemera. Items that if they didn’t exist here, would be lost forever. Yet so many of our community members have difficulty describing what exactly it is…that we do … Continue reading →

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards Grant to the Internet Archive for Long Tail Journal Preservation

Posted on March 5, 2018 by jefferson

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a research and development grant to the Internet Archive to address the critical need to preserve the “long tail” of open access scholarly communications. The project, Ensuring the Persistent Access of Long Tail … Continue reading →

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27 Public Libraries and the Internet Archive Launch “Community Webs” for Local History Web Archiving

Posted on February 28, 2018 by jefferson

The lives and activities of communities are increasingly documented online; local news, events, disasters, celebrations — the experiences of citizens are now largely shared via social media and web platforms. As these primary sources about community life move to the … Continue reading →

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TV News Record: Television Explorer 2.0, shooting coverage & more

Posted on February 23, 2018 by Nancy Watzman

A round up on what’s happening at the TV News Archive by Katie Dahl and Nancy Watzman.  Explore Television Explorer 2.0 Television Explorer, a tool to search closed captions from the TV News Archive, keeps getting better. Last week GDELT’s … Continue reading →

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Expanding the Television Archive

Posted on February 22, 2018 by Wendy Hanamura

When we started archiving television in 2000, people shrugged and asked, “Why?  Isn’t it all junk anyway?” As the saying goes, one person’s junk is another person’s gold. From 2010-18, scholars, pundits and above all, reporters, have spun journalistic gold … Continue reading →

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TV News Record: New search, important data, & more fact-checks

Posted on February 9, 2018 by Nancy Watzman

A round up on what’s happening at the TV News Archive by Katie Dahl and Nancy Watzman. Additional research by Robin Chin. This week we present new TV news search features, inventory data of TV news recordings from GDELT, and … Continue reading →

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