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🛒 Remember the iconic Kmart in-store audio that set the holiday shopping vibe? 🎄🛍️ Travel back to December 1990 & relive the holiday magic with these preserved recordings: https://archive.org/details/KmartDecember1990 #ThrowbackThursday

When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, works of art & culture from 1928 will enter the public domain in the US, meaning they can be remixed & reused in new creative works. And 1928 was a big year, thanks to a famous mouse...

Join our celebrations: https://blog.archive.org/2023/12/05/weird-tales-from-the-public-domain-freeing-culture-from-corporate-captivity/

Giving Tuesday means giving the gift of knowledge!

Your support helps us continue to house over 99+ petabytes of public media data like texts, movies, audio, images, and more - items users rely on daily for research, education, cultural findings, and so much more. https://archive.org/donate/?origin=mstdn-eoy2023

From today until December 31, 2023, every donation to the Internet Archive will be matched 1-to-1, doubling the impact of your gift this holiday season!

Help us continue to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge: https://archive.org/donate/?origin=mstdn-eoy2023

"We aren’t just fighting for libraries, we are fighting for our humanity." -Supervisor Connie Chan, recipient of the 2023 Internet Archive Hero Award, for authoring & unanimously passing a resolution supporting the Internet Archive & the digital rights of all libraries. Learn more: https://blog.archive.org/2023/10/19/internet-archive-celebrates-research-and-research-libraries-at-annual-gathering/

We hear this often—"Why would the Internet Archive preserve & digitize an out-of-print textbook from the 1930s?"

Because you never know when the information within is going to solve a decades-long puzzle, like this fascinating story about American theoretical physicist Richard Feynman: https://gwern.net/maze

Introducing the Whole Earth Index: a nearly complete free online archive of Whole Earth publications. The Internet Archive helped digitize the materials & hosts the collection for all to access. https://wholeearth.info/

Explore how the Wayback Machine has been a vital tool in uncovering the evolution of digital media & the spread of disinformation online for researchers Liliana Bounegru & Jonathan Gray: https://blog.archive.org/2023/10/09/from-fake-news-to-open-data-studying-the-histories-of-digital-media-using-the-wayback-machine/

Today, the Internet Archive submitted its appeal in Hachette v. Internet Archive. As we stated when the decision was handed down in March, we believe the lower court made errors in facts and law, so we are fighting on in the face of great challenges. https://blog.archive.org/2023/09/11/internet-archive-files-appeal-in-publishers-lawsuit-against-libraries/

What the Hachette v. Internet Archive decision means for our library: https://blog.archive.org/2023/08/17/what-the-hachette-v-internet-archive-decision-means-for-our-library/ #DigitalRightsForLibraries

“When people want to listen to music they go to Spotify. When people want to study sound recordings as they were originally created, they go to libraries like the Internet Archive. Both are needed. There shouldn’t be conflict here.” - @brewsterkahle

Read our full statement about the recording industry lawsuit against our library: https://blog.archive.org/2023/08/14/internet-archive-responds-to-recording-industry-lawsuit-targeting-obsolete-media/

We ❤️ interlibrary loan - it's a library superpower! Learn how librarians like Laurie are connecting their patrons with materials from our collection in our ILL help doc: https://help.archive.org/help/inter-library-loan-ill-at-the-internet-archive/ #EmpoweringResearch

We submitted a letter to the court today in the ongoing lawsuit against our library. We’re fighting for the rights of libraries to use their print collections in the digital age: https://blog.archive.org/2023/08/11/our-fight-is-far-from-over/ #DigitalRightsForLibraries #EmpoweringResearch

Calling all gamers and history buffs! @internetarchive is a treasure trove for arcade enthusiasts. Explore our vast collection of arcade manuals and uncover the secrets behind your favorite games. It's a trip down memory lane you won't want to miss! https://archive.org/details/arcademanuals?tab=collection

NOW AVAILABLE: 600 Hebrew & Judaica manuscripts from Columbia University's Rare Book & Manuscript Library ▶️ https://archive.org/details/culhebrewmss?tab=collection&sort=-publicdate

“Fans have helped build it. Bands have supported it. And the Internet Archive has continued to scale it to be able to meet the demand.” @brewsterkahle on the Live Music Archive, now home to >250,000 recordings! https://blog.archive.org/2023/07/31/live-music-archive-collection-now-tops-250000-recordings/

We lost our blue check mark on Twitter. We’ll always have it in The Wayback Machine… https://web.archive.org/web/20230420025328/Twitter.com/internetarchive

We will appeal. #DigitalRightsForLibraries
http://blog.archive.org/2023/03/25/the-fight-continues/

We’re going to court TOMORROW to defend the digital rights of all libraries! Library Futures will be hosting a live blog during oral argument and a live discussion afterwards. Here's how to participate: http://blog.archive.org/2023/03/17/heres-how-to-participate-in-mondays-oral-arguments/

If the publishers win the lawsuit against our library, researchers lose ? Renee DiResta (@Noupside) of the Stanford Internet Observatory explains why the Internet Archive is crucial for her research team in this age of "information glut" #researchers #EmpoweringLibraries