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The following guest post from media historian Taylor Cole Miller is part of our Vanishing Culture series, highlighting the power and importance of preservation in our digital age. Read more essays online or download the full report now. DuMont Television Network. “Network ID.” 1954. https://archive.org/details/DuMont_Network             The nesting material of my university office is blank VHS tapes. A few of these tapes were well-worn security blankets … Read more

This year’s Library Leaders Forum kicked off on October 12 with news of promising research, digitization projects and advocacy efforts designed to best shape the library of the future. The virtual gathering also called on participants to take action in sharing resources and promoting a variety of public interest initiatives underway in the library community. Watch session … Read more

https://www.loc.gov/item/2019642586 It’s been over two years since a group of large book publishers sued the Internet Archive over our lending programs. After an expensive and lengthy discovery phase, arguments have now been fully briefed in the district court. What might we learn from the proceedings so far about how publishers see the future of libraries? The first thing we might learn … Read more

What are some of the new initiatives from the U.S. Government Publishing Office? Director Hugh Halpern offers an update, which has been incorporated into our program for tonight’s Building Democracy’s Library event. Many thanks to Director Halpern and the U.S. Government Publishing Office for sharing this update!

Carl Malamud is a man with a mission: To make public information freely available to the public. For more than three decades, Malamud has not just talked in theory about why government materials should be online—he has taken action to digitize and upload massive amounts of data himself. He is the reason many laws and … Read more

Democracies need an educated citizenry to thrive. In the 21st century, that means easy access to reliable information online for all.  To meet that need, the Internet Archive is building Democracy’s Library—a free, open, online compendium of government research and publications from around the world. “Governments have created an abundance of information and put it in the … Read more

This weekend, the Grateful Dead will be celebrated at the Kennedy Center Honors, recognizing their impact on music and culture. You can join in the celebration by listening to one of the 17,000 Grateful Dead concert recordings preserved at the Internet Archive. The Grateful Dead Collection, part of the Live Music Archive, features more than 17,000 concert recordings spanning … Read more

Friends and supporters of the Internet Archive gathered October 19 at the organization’s headquarters in San Francisco to celebrate the launch of Democracy’s Library. Plans to collect government documents from around the world and make them easily accessible online were met with enthusiasm and endorsements. Speakers at the event expressed an urgency to preserve the public … Read more

The following interview with singer-songwriter Elliott Adkins is part of our Vanishing Culture series, highlighting the power and importance of preservation in our digital age. Read more essays online or download the full report now. Elliott Adkins has a passion for recording old songs that have largely been forgotten. The 23-year-old musician was inspired after finding boxes of sheet music in his parents’ … Read more

As deep-cuts in the Archive go, these staff-recommended resources are ones you won’t want to miss! Time off over the holidays? Need a little break while visiting family? Sourcing recommendations for movie night? The Internet Archive has you covered.  We’ve gathered some of our staff’s favorite items (holiday-themed and otherwise) in our collections to share … Read more