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 InterLibrary loan lives! Record numbers are getting articles and chapters through this reliable free method from the Internet Archive. The long tail holdings are needed! 384 libraries are now getting docs through one system. Go @internetarchive go #ILL Digitizing Aruba's History, Culture & Heritage. go aruba go @internetarchive (6 minutes youtube)  @brewsterkahle and they forced a huge increase in the prices of ebooks, to match paper books. @brewsterkahle Owning and controlling information is the same kind of imperative for publishers that preserving and disseminating it is for the IA. It, not books, is their asset. Yet it's so hard to value individually that they simply hoard it until some nugget shows potential, and they will milk it dry and speculate and diversify to improve their odds. It is as much quantity as quality, and the more, the better. Past sales be damned; there's always a chance for more as long as you own it. "The Internet Archive Just Backed Up an Entire Caribbean Island By becoming the official custodian of an entire nation’s history for the first time, the Internet Archive is expanding its already outsize role in preserving the digital world for posterity." https://www.wired.com/story/internet-archive-backed-up-aruba-caribbean-island/ Rotate Your Owl.... for Science (remember to turn the sound on) It is so important to preserve shockwave animations from our earlier days. so important. :) Go @internetarchive . Please donate https://archive.org/donate   @brewsterkahle @internetarchive Please donate to @internetarchive to stand by your library. 100Petabytes and growing-- building a record of our time for us all to enjoy.
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@brewsterkahle @internetarchive I gave them a fiver a while back, when they had a few pages of a web site I thought I had lost forever. I'm certain they'll be helpful again, and will gladly pay again... @brewsterkahle @internetarchive I’m in! I’ve read countless books there, and I love that I could get access that helps me as a visually impaired reader/scholar!  @internetarchive The internet archive has done SO much more for me than the wikipedia ever did. 10 years of Preserving old software! @internetarchive "10 years on, the Internet Archive now offers over 250,000 emulated games and programs that run in your browser" https://betanews.com/2023/09/20/internet-archive-emulation-station-10-years/ @brewsterkahle @internetarchive You've got me curious: how come game corps don't throw endless DMCA requests over some of this stuff? IA's old game collection is *huge*. @brewsterkahle @internetarchive The internet archive did nothing wrong. The current copyright laws are wrong. Now the Washington lawyers want to destroy digital collections of scratchy 78rpm records, 70-120 year old, built by dedicated preservationists online since 2006. Who benefits?
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 @brewsterkahle the minute they filed suit and unleashed headlines across the internet, millions of people who weren't aware of the collection are now checking it out (and hopefully downloading it) Burning Man-esque Test pattern! (Am I the only one that loves testpatterns?) from a 1980's newspaper microfilm reel we are digitizing. Gosh American film tech was amazing! And our digitization imaging tech is pretty great. Look at the clarity of 4pt type.  Loving historic Canadian Government Document cover graphics. These are being scanned as part of Democracy's Library project in Canada at the University of Toronto. Up for Donating Books? try the @internetarchive new app to find out which ones will help fill out the collections (if you go through this, we can sometimes cover postage) Randomly scanning your or friend's books to see if the Internet Archive already has it... Again, try the app. (I find it fun, but it might just be me) Search for "donate books" in the apple or google app stores. Please donate to the Internet Archive if you can. We are a bargain! Serving millions every day with books music video and web archives. Please help keep everything freely available. The Great 78 Project twitter bot is now on Mastodon! Each hour it posts 1 newly digitized 78rpm record you can play. Give it a shot-- it is nice to have something good happening out there in Internet-landia. @great78 http://great78.archive.org/ go @internetarchive !
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@brewsterkahle @great78 @internetarchive @jalefkowit Wow! This is absolutely lovely! Thank you! (Which reminds me: I definitely must donate to Internet Archive…) @brewsterkahle @great78 @internetarchive Just listening to "Africa Music Rythmns in the Jungle"👍 👍  The Internet Archive fulfills lots of #ILL requests each day (and on holidays/weekends). Each one takes a person to do it, so we spread it out to staff around the world. I love that the highest years are the 1990's... Keeping our cultural memory alive!
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@brewsterkahle I've just watched a workshop and immediately setup the Custom Group/Custom holdings path to IAILL in our ILLiad. 👍 @brewsterkahle I have an interest in a niche bit of history - the bicycle culture in the San Francisco, CA, USA region 1860 - 1940 -and archive.org has been a most helpful resource! Examples: |
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@brewsterkahle @internetarchive ILL is awesome. I have gotten access to 4 books already this year, with at least that many requests waiting for some kind library to fulfill.