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Introducing the Whole Earth Index: a nearly complete free online archive of Whole Earth publications. The Internet Archive helped digitize the materials & hosts the collection for all to access. https://wholeearth.info/
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Announced today: Internet Archive joins the Partnership on AI ▶️ https://partnershiponai.org/partnership-on-ai-welcomes-four-new-partners/ “When people want to listen to music they go to Spotify. When people want to study sound recordings as they were originally created, they go to libraries like the Internet Archive. Both are needed. There shouldn’t be conflict here.” - @brewsterkahle Read our full statement about the recording industry lawsuit against our library: https://blog.archive.org/2023/08/14/internet-archive-responds-to-recording-industry-lawsuit-targeting-obsolete-media/
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@internetarchive @brewsterkahle I've used the archive for academic assignments. I concur that this is its purpose.  @internetarchive @brewsterkahle Some people, when they want to listen to music, listen to their own music collection accumulated over decades, and don't go near streaming services. Spotify doesn't rule the world. That said, I don't get why, other than they're just greedy jerks, UMG and Sony are bringing this case. We submitted a letter to the court today in the ongoing lawsuit against our library. We’re fighting for the rights of libraries to use their print collections in the digital age: https://blog.archive.org/2023/08/11/our-fight-is-far-from-over/ #DigitalRightsForLibraries #EmpoweringResearch We ❤️ interlibrary loan - it's a library superpower! Learn how librarians like Laurie are connecting their patrons with materials from our collection in our ILL help doc: https://help.archive.org/help/inter-library-loan-ill-at-the-internet-archive/ #EmpoweringResearch 🎯✅ "the Internet Archive has a big collection of Flash games, and you can search the entire archive to find even more." https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-play-old-flash-games-ruffle/ @internetarchive flash games were my childhood, so i’m eternally grateful to ruffle and the archive for keeping that part of it alive “Fans have helped build it. Bands have supported it. And the Internet Archive has continued to scale it to be able to meet the demand.” @brewsterkahle on the Live Music Archive, now home to >250,000 recordings! https://blog.archive.org/2023/07/31/live-music-archive-collection-now-tops-250000-recordings/  @internetarchive @brewsterkahle It is an invaluable resource for #DIY musicians. I have archived lots over there. An old group I was in from #NM has been heard by 10s of thousands more people than it would have been, for instance- ¡para!helion is now known around the globe What happens when a bear finds a GoPro? Creator Tom Scott found out & has shared the raw footage on Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/grizzly-bear-selfie Watch the full story on Tom's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq4ZkfojSis  @internetarchive uh, is this GoPro doing an end-to-end trip through a bear? I'm pretty sure I don't want to see that. PhD student Spencer Kaplan is an anthropologist of technology. Last summer Kaplan used the Wayback Machine to study trust relationships across the blockchain community on Twitter. What did he learn? Find out in our latest #EmpoweringResearch profile: https://blog.archive.org/2023/07/24/empowering-anthropological-research-in-the-digital-age/ 🎤 We've partnered with Bowling Green State University Music Library & Bill Schurk Sound Archives to preserve a treasure trove of historic 78rpm recordings! 🎵 Read more about this fantastic collaboration & listen in now: blog.archive.org/2023/07/18/bowling-green-state-university-music-library-and-bill-schurk-sound-archives-partners-with-internet-archive/ NEW AT ARCHIVE.ORG: A photo collection of more than 1,400 historic coins from all over the world, dating from 1643 to 2015. Shown here is a Hesse-Cassel 1/24 Thaler from 1788: https://archive.org/details/hesse-cassel-km-529-groschen-1788-df 🪙Explore the full collection: https://archive.org/details/valley-of-coins?&sort=date @internetarchive Neat! For possible code-art-playfulness purposes, is there an easy way to download the full collection of images?  We’re going to court TOMORROW to defend the digital rights of all libraries! Library Futures will be hosting a live blog during oral argument and a live discussion afterwards. Here's how to participate: http://blog.archive.org/2023/03/17/heres-how-to-participate-in-mondays-oral-arguments/
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 Brad Bigelow is a fan of overlooked authors & forgotten novels. On NeglectedBooks.com, Bigelow reviews lesser-known books, many of which he finds in our library, in hopes of giving the authors belated exposure & saving all-but-forgotten stories ➡️ http://blog.archive.org/2023/03/13/shedding-new-light-on-forgotten-authors-neglected-books/
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@internetarchive Is this from when you decided to become the pirate bay for currently published works by living authors? It may determine the future of all libraries, but not in the way you're implying. Just thinking about the people who were sad the manga series they read from pirate websites were discontinued. @internetarchive for donations to fight the suit, should we make general donations or is there a specific url/fund to support? As most of you know, our library is being sued by 4 corporate publishers who want to stop the Internet Archive from lending books. The date for oral argument has just been set for March 20. What's at stake? Lia Holland from @team elaborates: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2023-02-23-statement-major-decision-on-libraries-digital-rights-a-step-closer-on-march-20
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@internetarchive @team I have to ask, when you started making the books in question available for lending, did you follow the proper library procedures, whatever they happen to be? I agree entirely with the aims of the Internet Archive and libraries in general. Having read this statement, I do wonder if the focus on the "greedy maw of Big Publishing" might not be counter-productive in a society (seen from the UK anyway) which seems to prioritise money/wealth over just about everything else. I'm only an outsider looking in, but having had retrospective restrictions placed on my ebooks (I still have a number I've bought and can no longer (...) New post from @brewsterkahle: We have added a Mastodon Server https://blog.archive.org/2022/11/13/we-have-added-a-mastodon-server/
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 Will IA be scraping and archiving peoples' toots without their knowledge and/or consent? |
@internetarchive That's a real blast from the past.
@internetarchive I love having this resource, but it desperately needs a search feature. Especially if you are going to call it an index.
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