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“Technology embodies a set of values,” opened Internet Archive’s Director of Partnerships, Wendy Hanamura, in Ethics of the Decentralized Web & Uses in Humanitarian Work, the final session with METRO Library Council and Library Futures. “What values drive our current web?” Watch Video: While most of the audience responded by discussing web monetization or opined about … Read more
Internet Archive has begun gathering content for the Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications (DLARC), which will be a massive online library of materials and collections related to amateur radio and early digital communications. The DLARC is funded by a significant grant from the Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC), a private foundation, to create … Read more
On January 1, 2025, creative works from 1929 and sound recordings from 1924 will enter the public domain in the US. 1929 marked the last gasp of the roaring 20s and ushered in the Great Depression, a major economic crisis that would span the next 12 years. One thing we can see nearly a century … Read more
First, let’s get one myth out of the way: The Internet Archive has not been up, rock-steady and with no loss of service or connection, for twenty-eight years. Starting out as a project to archive online materials, with a lot of speculative ideas of how to handle data at scale, the archive.org website was hosted at a shifting … Read more
On Friday, October 7, the Internet Archive filed a reply brief against the four publishers that sued Internet Archive in June 2020: Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, John Wiley & Sons, and Penguin Random House. This is the final brief in support of our motion for summary judgment (our previous motions can be found here and here) where we have asked the … Read more
By Erin McKean, editor of VERBATIM. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly began as a simple six-page pamphlet in 1974, a project launched by lexicographer Laurence Urdang as content marketing — before that was ever a term — for his reference-book publishing company. The quarterly soon outgrew that narrow focus, and within a few years was as many as thirty-two … Read more
A new digital rights management (DRM) technology that is open source—and embraced by publishers—is gaining traction in the library eBook world. Readium LCP was developed five years ago to protect digital files from unauthorized distribution. Unlike proprietary platforms, the technology is open to anyone who wants to look inside the codebase and make improvements. It … Read more
Highlights include 1980s radio interviews with LL Cool J, Sonic Youth and more, 1960s amateur radio footage, college radio oral histories, and radio station correspondence from the 1940s-1960s By Jennifer Waits, Curator of the DLARC College Radio Collection Feast your eyes and ears on the latest additions to the college radio collection within the Digital Library of Amateur … Read more
By Herb Greene – Billboard, page 9, 5 December 1970, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27041998 As the Grateful Dead are honored at the Kennedy Center Honors broadcast on Sunday (airing December 22 at 8:30pm ET on CBS & streaming), we’re celebrating their legacy with a look at the top ten most popular recordings in the Internet Archive’s Grateful Dead … Read more
The following guest post from writer and book artist Eve Scarborough 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. What is type ephemera and why does it need to be preserved? Type ephemera, specifically the kind collected by Letterform Archive, refers to paper goods … Read more