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Whenever I’ve had a book published I have celebrated every sale. But the biggest cause for celebration – the sale that always made me most proud – was when a library acquired a copy or two. Individuals may purchase a book, shelve it or pass it along to a friend, and thereafter ...

The Internet Archive responded, explaining how libraries could extend access digitally to books that were in their physical collections. This helped make a big difference on the ground, and Kahle says policies are changing so libraries are confident in serving their digital learners. For instance ...

Here are some of the top songs from 1922, to give you a taste:

April Showers by Al Jolson
Hot Lips by Paul Whiteman
‘Way Down Yonder in New Orleans by Margaret Young
The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise by Isham Jones Orchestra
Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Goo’bye) by Al Jolson
Ory’s Creole Trombone by ...

In this final session of the Internet Archive’s digital humanities expo, Library as Laboratory, attendees heard from scholars in a series of short presentations about their research and how they’re using collections and infrastructure from the Internet Archive for their work.
Speakers:

Forgotten ...

I was happy, then, to participate in the Open Library project, by putting my own work into an anthology to be published for digital lending. I understand—at a deep level, the level on which I wonder how I will pay the mortgage and what I will eat in my old age—how alarming the Open Library can sound ...

Sarah Lamdan was working as an academic law librarian at the City University of New York in 2017 when something concerning caught her eye.

“I was really startled and confused because I didn’t understand how Lexis and Westlaw would be doing ICE surveillance,” said Lamdan, who wondered about the ...

Many have now seen how, when someone deletes their Twitter account, their profile, their tweets, even their direct messages, disappear. According to the MIT Technology Review, around a million people have left so far, and all of this information has left the platform along with them. The mass exodus ...

Copyright in the US (and via the Berne Convention and other lobbying, worldwide) has been increasingly extended over the years, often following the impending expiration of the Steamboat Willie copyright, and it has done so in the face of a 20th century that knew much shorter terms (and which led to ...

Join us for a VIRTUAL book talk with author Joanne McNeil about her latest book, WRONG WAY, which examines the treacherous gaps between the working and middle classes wrought by the age of AI. McNeil will be in conversation with author Sarah Jaffe.

This is the first Internet Archive / Authors ...

然而，在与更广泛的网络社区接触后，我接触到了形形色色的人，他们从事着直接相关的项目，每个人的身份和角色都交织在一起。我记得我遇到一位科幻小说作家，当时我就想：“哇，这真是一个有趣的补充，我觉得我以前在会议上不会自然而然地邀请他们来！” 我也得以忘却会议是什么，是什么样子的，你知道，我会带着我的小公文包去参加，然后做演讲，因为学术界就是这样的。然后，会议的氛围更加轻松，可以与各种各样的人进行开放的交流。所以我觉得这真的很有趣，让我大开眼界，哇，我们确实需要让更多的人参与到我们参加的这些会议中来，因为设计师和研究人员、开发人员一样重要。

，从零开始开发网状网络究竟需要什么。我总是会回想起这一点 ...