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 Donations to the @internetarchive this year are helping-- Thank you! Donations have come in money, stocks, corporate matches, and crypto. As well as physical materials, time, uploads. Thank you all for keeping the Library building collections and offering Free Public Access! https://archive.org/donate Interlibrary loan requests keep coming in even over xmas eve-- often from Asia and the Middle East. Short story "The Hypnotist" by Ambrose Bierce Fulfilled. Scholarship marches on! 2025 Public Domain Day Remix Contest: The Internet Archive is Looking For Creative Short Films Made By You! Virtual and in-person events on Jan 22, 2025. Deadline Jan 17. Please make a film! (my personal fav from last year, so captivatingly strange: https://archive.org/details/domaincullenjsanchez ) Leiden dissertations are still not destroyed, 400,000 dissertations go to the @internetarchive "Libraries The Leiden university library wanted to grind 400,000 dissertations into pulp, but waives that because The Internet Archive wants to take them over." https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/10/09/leidse-proefschriften-worden-toch-niet-vernietigd-400000-dissertaties-gaan-naar-de-vs-a4868698
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@brewsterkahle @internetarchive Wow, that viscerally hurts me, even as an ex-academic. Glad they're been saved, and digitally accessible I guess? Maybe they'll get more use then. I've found useful information in online PhD theses before. My own has a paper in it that never got published and I think is probably quite interesting even now, about cognition-dependent corticomuscular phase locking. I like the idea that it's at least *possible* it'll get some use some day. @brewsterkahle @internetarchive From The Netherlands, in which Leiden lies, thank you. Once more, the USA comes to our rescue where we cannot save ourselves. 🙏 @brewsterkahle @internetarchive thanks! (will we have a European/EC chapter of the Internet Archive at some point?) ? ? really, the experience at MIT should not be taken as something that necessarily goes for everyone else "Using DLARC, Amateur Radio Operators are Resurrecting Technical Ideas from the Past, Using 21st Century Tech" A new community archive project offers more than just nostalgia. I hope this is a model for other communities & personal digital archives Democracy's Library kicked off with Canada and the US. Canadian govdocs are under "Crown Copyright" which makes things less clear. The Libraries in Canada have just written a Best Practices to make it more clear on how to build Democracy's Library Canada. Go Canada! http://cfla-fcab.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Code_of_Best_Practice_Crown_Copyright-May2024.pdf  Don't be fooled! Librarians are a completely different genus, they are also extending their hours here in Toronto just so folks in the heat wave have somewhere with air-conditioning and no user fees. Imagine! Dangerous people, librarians. 😅 "Saved MTV News Is Back (Kind Of) Thanks to the Internet Archive After Paramount Global yanked over 20 years of music journalism, the non-profit Internet Archive created a searchable index of MTV News via its Wayback Machine" rolling stone. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/mtv-news-saved-internet-archive-1235051776/  "Saving the First Draft of History: When news sites suddenly shut down and former URLs are sold to the highest bidder, saving a publisher's archive becomes a time-consuming and rigorous full-time job in the digital age." nice piece featuring @mark of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine! https://niemanreports.org/articles/saving-the-first-draft-of-history/ 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 @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. 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. 12
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@brewsterkahle @internetarchive that has been my latest donation this year. Thank you so much guys for the amazing work that you are doing