🕗 The microfiche livestream runs until 8pm PT tonight—then switches over to silent films & NASA images from Internet Archive collections. 🚀🎞️ Scanning resumes tomorrow during normal hours: 📅 Mon–Fri ⏰ 7:30am–3:30pm PT 📴 (Closed on U.S. holidays) 🎬 Watch: https://www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5RVh7U

👀 Watch government transparency in action—frame by frame. We just launched a live feed from the microfiche digitization lab! 📽️ Real-time scanning of government documents & records for Democracy's Library. 🔗 https://www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5RVh7U

📚 Fair use empowers libraries, learners, journalists & creators—it’s essential to a healthy digital society. With turmoil at the Copyright Office, @npub1ftlr...3e6s urges us: don’t lose sight of fair use. Read the post ➡️

Protect Fair Use, Especially Now | Internet Archive Blogs

Can a digital “sale” be real if it can vanish overnight? Sen. Ron Wyden, Internet Archive, Public Knowledge & allies are calling on the FTC to protect true ownership in the digital marketplace. More ➡️

Public Interest Groups to FTC: Make Digital Ownership Real | Internet Archive Blogs

🎮 From Pac-Man to Nosh Kosh—retro games shaped generations. But many are vanishing. Only 13% of classic games from 1960–2009 are still available. Some, like Jewish educational games by Yaakov Kirschen, who died on April 14 at 87, were almost lost forever. Journalist Josh Renaud @npub1ayx6...mhpy explains why preserving niche software matters in the latest essay from the Vanishing Culture report. 🔗 Read the full essay:

Vanishing Culture: Recovering Lost Software | Internet Archive Blogs

📺 Just released by the BBC: a powerful video on the mission of the @internetarchive & the @waybackmachine. “A time machine for the web,” preserving everything from lost government websites to books & records—before they vanish. 🔗 Explore:

Wayback Machine

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The Internet Archive received the 2024 Project Uil award from the Dutch Wikipedia community, recognized for its immense value in supporting open knowledge. Brewster Kahle accepted the award, reflecting on the Internet Archive’s role in fixing over 22 million broken Wikipedia links and helping to ensure digital knowledge remains accessible. Learn more ➡️

Brewster Kahle Accepts Project Uil Award from Dutch Wikipedia Community | Internet Archive Blogs

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See the American West in 3-D! On April 23, the Internet Archive will host a special live event in San Francisco featuring a stereo slideshow of rare 1860s railroad photographs by Civil War photographer Andrew J. Russell. Restored from original glass plates by the Golden Gate Stereoscopic Society, these striking views bring history to life. Free and open to the public. 6–8 PM at 300 Funston Ave. Details:

Free Live Event! Andrew J. Russell and the Westward Expansion in 3-D – Golden Gate Stereoscopic Society

Documents bearing witness to the lives of enslaved people in Aruba are now recognized by UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register. These documents are preserved at Aruba's National Archives & National Library, and are accessible at the Internet Archive. Learn more:

Aruba’s Digitized Slavery Documents Added to UNESCO’s International Memory of the World Register | Internet Archive Blogs