Category Archives: Books Archive

Thank you, Robert Miller, for 2.5 million Books for Free Public Access

Posted on May 8, 2015 by brewster

I am both sad and happy that Robert Miller has accepted another position so will be leaving the Internet Archive after 10 years of fantastic achievements. He joined to help create a mass movement of libraries bringing themselves digital by … Continue reading →

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Internet Archive and CADAL Partner to Digitize 500,000 Academic Texts

Posted on April 15, 2015 by Jeff Kaplan

The Internet Archive and the Chinese Academic Digital Associative Library (CADAL), are pleased to announce that 500,000 English-language, academic books will be digitized through a partnership that leverages strengths from both organizations. This furthers an initiative begun in 2009, The … Continue reading →

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Sharing Data for Better Discovery and Access

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Jeff Kaplan

The Internet Archive and the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) are pleased to announce a joint collaborative program to enhance sharing of collections from the Internet Archive in the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). The Internet Archive will … Continue reading →

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$4 Million Available for Digitization in 2015 Application Deadline is April 30th Let’s Apply Together!

Posted on February 10, 2015 by Jeff Kaplan

Internet Archive wants to partner with you to bring your ‘Hidden Collections’ into the public domain and become part of a global digital library! The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon … Continue reading →

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archive.org download counts of collections of items updates and fixes

Posted on January 26, 2015 by traceypooh

Every month, we look over the total download counts for all public items at archive.org. ?We sum item counts into their collections. ?At year end 2014, we found various source reliability issues, as well as overcounting for “top collections” and … Continue reading →

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Crusading librarian for openness passes: Cathy Norton

Posted on December 23, 2014 by brewster

A live wire in the library field, and a firebrand for openness, Cathy Norton helped keep libraries free and open during this current digitization wave. Fun and opinionated, we learned that she had the background and evidence to make the … Continue reading →

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Partnership Promotes Jobs and Builds Free Global Library

Posted on November 25, 2014 by internetarchive

As part of their Building Libraries Together initiative the Internet Archive is testing a new socially-responsible jobs model with Bay Area Rescue Mission (BARM) of Richmond, California. The Internet Archive has been digitizing books for nearly 10 years, but needed … Continue reading →

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Millions of historic images posted to Flickr

Posted on August 29, 2014 by internetarchive

by Robert Miller, Global Director of Books, Internet Archive “Reading a book from the inside out!”. Well not quite, but a new way to read our eBooks has just been launched. Check out this great BBC article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28976849 Here is … Continue reading →

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Working to Stop Rewriting Copyright Laws via TPP Treaty

Posted on July 9, 2014 by brewster

The Internet Archive joined Our Fair Deal along with EFF and Public Knowledge to stop the US from using the Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty from changing our copyright laws.?? The coalition sent two open letters to TPP negotiators today on critical … Continue reading →

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Popular subjects in our book collection

Posted on February 21, 2014 by Alexis Rossi

We took a leisurely stroll through half a million books today, and we noticed that lots of the books were congregating around some popular categories. ?This isn’t an exhaustive list, we just thought it would nice to share a little … Continue reading →

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Borrow Top Children’s Books

Posted on October 10, 2013 by Alexis Rossi

Recently the New York Public Library published a list of their choices for the top 100 children’s books from the last 100 years. ? We took a look at the books we have available via Open Library, and it turns … Continue reading →

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450,000 Early Journal Articles Now Available

Posted on April 11, 2013 by brewster

Internet Archive announces today the addition of over 450,000 journal articles from the JSTOR Early Journal Content collection. Early Journal Content is a selection of pre-1923 materials from more than 350 journals and includes articles in the arts and humanities, … Continue reading →

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Launch of the DigiBaeck Project

Posted on October 15, 2012 by internetarchive

The Internet Archive, working with the Leo Baeck Institute, is pleased to be a part of the Oct 16, 2012 launch of their DigiBaeck project, a massive (formerly print) archival collection of history pertaining? to German speaking Jewry. Robert Miller, … Continue reading →

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Uploading images for text items (update on *_images.zip format)

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Hank Bromley

The old news Until about a year ago, if you wanted to upload a set of individual page images and have them be recognized as a “book” so we’d create the usual derivative formats from them, you had to mimic … Continue reading →

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We want to buy your books! Internet Archive Letter to Publishers

Posted on May 2, 2012 by peter

Thank you for your willingness to invest in the future of publishing and readership. Libraries and publishers have a lot in common: we connect writers with readers which promotes literacy, scholarship, and citizenship. We want to buy more digital books … Continue reading →

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Archive-It Team Encourages Your Contributions To The “Occupy Movement” Collection

Posted on December 7, 2011 by internetarchive

Since September 17th, 2011 when protesters descended on Wall Street, set up tents, and refused to move until their voices were heard, an impassioned plea for economic and social equality has manifested itself in similar protests and demonstrations around the … Continue reading →

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Thursday Night 5:30pm Books in Browsers in San Francisco

Posted on October 24, 2011 by brewster

Please join the Internet Archive and O’Reilly Media: Eleven of the most exciting ebook startups and leaders in publishing will present short-form “ignite talks” on Thursday night, October 27, at Books in Browsers: Ignite! Books in Browsers: Ignite! 300 Funston … Continue reading →

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Thank you Friends of the SF Public Library for 130,000 books

Posted on October 3, 2011 by brewster

130,000 books, records, and videos were donated and then cataloged, de-duplicated, and readied for scanning and long term preservation in 2 days.?? Thank you to the Friends of SFPL for our largest public donation ever.?? With this, we believe we … Continue reading →

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Volunteer – Help us get 200,000 books on Sunday!

Posted on September 20, 2011 by internetarchive

We have a windfall: the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library are offering all the unsold books from their yearly book sale to the Internet Archive if we can pack them up. The Archive will then move them to … Continue reading →

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3 Million Texts for Free

Posted on September 17, 2011 by brewster

Hundreds of libraries reached the milestone of offering 3 million freely downloadable texts yesterday through the Internet Archive website.? Our 3 millionth text is a Galileo pamphlet from the rare book collection of the University of Toronto. Internet Archive has … Continue reading →

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