Aruba leads the way as the FIRST nation to sign a statement safeguarding the digital rights of memory organizations online. 🌐 This historic move sets a powerful precedent for protecting our digital heritage. Read more: blog.archive.org/2024/04/09/aru… #LibraryDigitalRights #Aruba

Aruba slave records, in handwriting, but full text searchable based on great work by National Library of Aruba and others, with the Internet Archive

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It's #NationalLibraryWeek & we're shining a spotlight on our incredible admin team. They work tirelessly behind the scenes, ensuring our events & spaces (both physical & virtual) are welcoming to all members of our global community.

EXCLUSIVE: 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. wired.trib.al/xKww4Kx

Explore the treasures that Aruba has made available via the Coleccion Aruba, preserved & accessible to all on the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/aruba

Aruba's rich history is now at your fingertips! 🏝️ Explore the island nation's digital heritage, history & culture via Coleccion Aruba. Learn about the people behind the portal & the researchers who depend on it for access: blog.archive.org/2024/04/08/aru…

Libraries should be able to own & preserve digital media. #VanishingCulture

When we all went remote 4 years ago, our staff struggled to stay connected. After some trial & error, we landed on something we're still doing do this day—we hire musicians to perform before our weekly zoom staff meetings! And yes, they're archived: blog.archive.org/2024/04/01/ess…
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University Librarian James O'Donnell remarks on the importance of library preservation & the publishers' lawsuit against the Internet Archive in Popula:

A University Librarian Asks: How Do We Rescue the Past? popula.com/2024/03/25/a-u…

Last night's showing of LOST LANDSCAPES was a powerful reminder of the magic that happens when community comes together. 📽️ Library spaces help foster connection, nostalgia & preservation of memories. Thank you to all who joined us!

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The lawsuit against our library is about more than the Internet Archive - it is about the role of all libraries in the digital age. blog.archive.org/2023/12/15/int…

The world’s largest publishers just filed a new legal brief on why all libraries—not just @InternetArchive—shouldn’t be able to own+preserve surveillance-free digital books.

If they win, 500,000+ books will stay banned from the archive.

authorsalliance.org/2024/03/15/pub…

Sad news that the Medical Heritage Library (MedHeritageLibrary) will close on June 30. The collection of more than 350,000 digitized rare books & historic American medical journals will remain at Internet Archive, preserved & available for all to access: archive.org/details/medica…

Librarian Benjamin Saracco used the Internet Archive to find books that frontline medical workers could use while their physical library was closed at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. That's what the publishers are trying to stop with their lawsuit against our library.

When Beth Noveck donated her father's personal library to the Internet Archive for preservation & digitization, she used the DONATE BOOKS app to identify books that weren't already in our collection.

Learn about the app: help.archive.org/help/donate-bo…

Learn more about the Noveck…

Nearly 4 years later, this remains the only tweet out of the entire lawsuit that really fundamentally bothered me on a deep level.

There’s nothing more punk than the public library—however, our collection of vintage punk rock flyers from the 70s & beyond comes close. Take a look at our vast repository of these flyers, which document the resistance movement. Featured in this month’s Best of the Archive…