Can You Help us Make the 19th Century Searchable?
In 1847, Frederick Douglass started a newspaper advocating the abolition of slavery that ran until 1851. After the Civil War,…
How Internet Archive and controlled digital lending can help course reserves this fall
Webster Library’s Course Reserves Room, Concordia University by Librarianpam under CC BY-SA 4.0 I host regular webinars about the Internet…
Libraries lend books, and must continue to lend books: Internet Archive responds to publishers’ lawsuit
Yesterday, the Internet Archive filed our response to the lawsuit brought by four commercial publishers to end the practice of…
Archive-It and Archives Unleashed Join Forces to Scale Research Use of Web Archives
Archived web data and collections are increasingly important to scholarly practice, especially to those scholars interested in data mining and…
Copyright Expert on Publishers Lawsuit: “The idea that lending a book is illegal is just wrong”
On July 22, 2020, Pamela Samuelson, Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law and Information at the University of California,…
Libraries have been bringing older books to digital learners: Four publishers sue to stop it
I wanted to share my thoughts in response to the lawsuit against the Internet Archive filed on June 1 by…
Juneteenth – Freedom Day
The Emancipation Proclamation went into effect on January 1st, 1863, legally freeing 3.5 million enslaved people in the Confederate states.…
How Can You Help the Internet Archive?
With the Internet Archive being mentioned prominently in the news for the past couple of weeks, we’ve had thousands of…
Revered Buddhist Monk Reflects on Transformational Change
Long before the Covid-19 pandemic, before the righteous uprisings for racial justice swept across the world, the Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi…
Impacts of the temporary National Emergency Library and controlled digital lending
Our team of librarians launched the NEL on March 24 to help those who were disconnected from their physical libraries,…
