What’s New in February 2022

Here are some of the notable new additions to the Internet Archive from February 2022. (Logging in might be required to borrow certain items.) Notable new collections:  We’ve been reorganizing some of the items uploaded by our users, and these collections of magazines struck us as particularly interesting: Books 45,073 This month we’ve added books in … Read more

Library as Laboratory Recap: Supporting Computational Use of Web Collections

For scholars, especially those in the humanities, the library is their laboratory. Published works and manuscripts are their materials of science. Today, to do meaningful research, that also means having access to modern datasets that facilitate data mining and machine learning. On March 2, the Internet Archive launched a new series of webinars highlighting its efforts to … Read more

Take Action: Defend the Internet Archive

The Internet Archive needs your help. A coalition of major record labels has filed a lawsuit against the Internet Archive—demanding $700 million for our work preserving and providing access to historical 78rpm records. These fragile, obsolete discs hold some of the earliest recordings of a vanishing American culture. But this lawsuit goes far beyond old records. It’s … Read more

Community Webs Digitization Grant Reveals Stories of San Francisco’s Immigrant Communities

The following guest post from Christina Moretta, Photo Curator and Acting San Francisco History Center Manager at San Francisco Public Library, is part of a series written by members of Internet Archive’s Community Webs program. Community Webs advances the capacity of community-focused memory organizations to build web and digital archives documenting local histories. San Francisco History Center (SFHC) … Read more

Aruba’s Digitized Slavery Documents Added to UNESCO’s International Memory of the World Register

The Internet Archive is proud to join in celebrating a major milestone in the preservation of global cultural heritage: documents related to the history of slavery in Aruba have been officially added to UNESCO’s Memory of the World (MoW) International Register. The digitized documents have been preserved and are accessible online through the Coleccion Aruba and the Internet … Read more

Brewster Kahle Accepts Project Uil Award from Dutch Wikipedia Community

Brewster Kahle accepting the “Project Owl”, which he was awarded by the Dutch Wikipedia community. Telderszaal, Academiegebouw (Leiden). Wiki info. The Internet Archive was recently honored for its valuable contribution to the Dutch-language Wikipedia community at an event at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle accepted the 2024 Project Uil award at … Read more