As the COVID-19 pandemic caused public institutions, including libraries, to shut down, the Internet Archive (IA) website jumped into the breach. On March 24, 2020, it launched the National Emergency ...

The Internet Archive is an invaluable resource, a digital library for the planet that gives people free access to digitized books, magazines, software, music, and even websites (thanks to the Wayback ...

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Before there was high-speed internet in Santo Domingo Pueblo, a tribal community about 40 miles from Albuquerque, New Mexico, leaders would pass around a Verizon hotspot to help run their tribal ...

A potentially landmark copyright lawsuit could affect how libraries are able to scan their own book collections. A potentially landmark copyright lawsuit could affect how libraries are able to scan ...

The fate of a nonprofit online book library is in the hands of a judge after four book publishers filed a lawsuit for copyright infringement. Reading time 2 minutes A federal judge heard oral ...

A lesson I learned early in life: never piss off a librarian. Apparently District Court Judge John G. Koetl skipped out on a formative traumatic-shushing experience, because his recent ruling against ...

Electronic reserve / Tom Delaney -- BARD and the Bodleian Library / Richard Gartner -- Implementing PC Gopher in a college library / Steven J. Herro -- Planning basics for a library FTP site / Martin ...

It's hoped that a successful appeal will allow Internet Archive to restore its full listing and continue lending the books. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

A treatise on a stuffed hippopotamus, an 18th-century English primer for Danish sailors and a description of the first engine-driven submarine are among 250,000 books to be made available online in a ...