Why is it important to preserve forgotten books? 📚🕳️ Discover how lost stories hold the key to cultural memory, creativity & knowledge in a new post from author & editor Brad Bigelow of Neglected Books:
Vanishing Culture: On the Importance of Remembering Forgotten Books | Internet Archive Blogs
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New Feature Alert: Access archived webpages directly through Google Search, now featuring a link to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. 🔗
New Feature Alert: Access Archived Webpages Directly Through Google Search | Internet Archive Blogs
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New op-ed from Public Knowledge in MIT Technology Review: "This decision harms libraries. It locks them into an e-book ecosystem designed to extract as much money as possible while harvesting (and reselling) reader data en masse." Why a ruling against the Internet Archive threatens the future of America’s libraries:
MIT Technology Review
Why a ruling against the Internet Archive threatens the future of America’s libraries
The decision locks libraries into an ecosystem that is not in readers' interests. Congress must act.
Internet Archive Responds to Appellate Opinion in Hachette v. Internet Archive "We are disappointed in today’s opinion about the Internet Archive’s digital lending of books that are available electronically elsewhere. We are reviewing the court’s opinion and will continue to defend the rights of libraries to own, lend, and preserve books." -Chris Freeland, Director of Library Services 🔗
Internet Archive Responds to Appellate Opinion in Hachette v. Internet Archive | Internet Archive Blogs
"The amount of economic harm that the publishers are presently suffering as a result of the IA has not only never been quantified, it has not even been roughly attempted to be quantified." From "Barbarians at the Gates: How the Internet Archive is putting publishers to shame" by Howard Burton for Ideas Roadshow
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Why is it important to preserve 78rpm recordings? As audio preservation expert George Blood explains, "78rpm discs were the way we learned about each other and entertained the world."
Vanishing Culture: On 78s | Internet Archive Blogs
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New spot on archiving the MTV News web site from NPR-affiliate KJZZ in Phoenix:
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Hundreds of thousands of articles from MTV News were taken offline. The Wayback Machine has archived them
Mark Graham is director of the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive, a nonprofit that archives more than a billion URLs every day. Graham joined...
 "We work diligently to archive large swaths of the public web. In particular, with regard to the MTV News site, we have been archiving that probably since its inception." - Mark Graham, director of the Wayback Machine
LISTEN: New podcast episode from Politico Tech featuring Mark Graham, director of Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, discussing the multi-institutional collaboration, End of Term Archive project. "Meet the man archiving Biden's presidency" 🔗 https://www.politico.com/podcasts/tech