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Controlled Digital Lending Takes Center Stage at Library Leaders Forum
The following blog post was written by freelance writer Caralee Adams about the Internet Archive’s Library Leaders Forum, held on October 23 at San Francisco Public Library. As enthusiasm grows for making library collections more accessible, the Internet Archive hosted … Continue reading
Posted in Books Archive, Education Archive, Event, Lending Books, News
Tagged controlled digital lending, Library, openlibrary
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archive.org download counts of collections of items updates and fixes
Every month, we look over the total download counts for all public items at archive.org. We sum item counts into their collections. At year end 2014, we found various source reliability issues, as well as overcounting for “top collections” and … Continue reading
Posted in Audio Archive, Books Archive, Education Archive, Image Archive, Live Music Archive, Movie Archive, Music, Software Archive, Technical, Video Archive
Tagged collections, documentation, downloads, statistics
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Over 1 Million Digital Books Now Available Free to the Print-Disabled
Associated Press Story The books on our Open Library site. Press release: More than doubling the number of books available to print disabled people of all ages, today the Internet Archive launched a new service that brings free access to … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Audio Archive, Books Archive, Education Archive, News, Open Library
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NASA partners with Internet Archive to archive digital imagery
From Jon Hornstein at Internet Archive’s NASA images: NASA gave a nice shout-out to the Internet Archive for helping them address their Open Government Initiative requirements. http://www.nasa.gov/open/plan/records-management.html Here’s a couple of choice quotes . . . “. . . (the … Continue reading
Posted in Cool items, Education Archive, Image Archive, News, Video Archive
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BloomEnergy, the Bloombox, Free Energy and Tesla
A hot topic on the heels of the 60 Minutes segment last night. Is the Bloombox the long sought solution to cheap clean energy? Is Mr. K.R. Sridhar the modern day Nicola Tesla? At the risk of boring you all I … Continue reading
Posted in Education Archive, News, Video Archive
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An All-Star Team
It has been about seven months since NASA and Internet Archive teamed up to create nasaimages.org. Through a Space Act Agreement, NASA has granted Internet Archive unprecedented access to all of the NASA centers’ media archives. While media from NASA … Continue reading
Posted in Audio Archive, Cool items, Education Archive, News, Video Archive
Tagged NASA, nasaimages.org
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Travel Films From Watson Kintner
Before “wandering through the stacks” at Internet Archive, I had never heard of Watson Kintner. Although he is far from a household name, the chemical engineer who lived from 1890-1979 provided thorough and unique documentation of his extensive travels for … Continue reading
Math Class Then and Now
Maintaining Classroom Discipline (1947): Mr. Grimes is the math teacher from hell: watch him berate his students and their small rebellions. Happily, the wise fatherly narrator suggests a better teaching mode and Mr. Grimes magically transforms. Inertia (2004): This math … Continue reading
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Tuition-free University Lectures
The Archive’s Education Collection provides free university courses and lectures (usually videotaped). The newest collection in the Education Collection is the University Channel Public Affairs Lectures. Watch guest speakers such as Kofi Annan, Condoleeza Rice, Robert Rubin, Cornel West, Hans … Continue reading
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