Notices by Brewster Kahle (brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org), page 4

Interlibrary loans live @internetarchive #ILL

over 288 different libraries have borrowed from the @internetarchive

with over an average of 300 articles or chapters each.

Peer-to-peer (and free) cooperation between libraries-- lets do more of it in 2023-- ideas welcome.

https://help.archive.org/help/inter-library-loan-ill-at-the-internet-archive/

@internetarchive did the year-end accounting of #ILL InternLibrary Loan

79% articles, 21% book chapters. Average response was well under an hour (usually minutes).

most requests from our collection from early 1990's

But even so, we serve more print-disabled people than ILL requests each day.

ill@archive.org

Are 78rpm records the new vinyl? (hip, I mean)

78s in the fun Netflix tv series Wednesday,

78s in the creepy movie Zone 414.

Ok, I love 78s!
if there is a fad-- I hope it leaves enduring good explorations

350,000 78's to explore (more every month): https://archive.org/details/georgeblood

Try following @great78 : something you have never heard every hour.

The Wayback Machine is repeatedly used for fact checking. Yippie! go @internetarchive

Fact check links to 2 Wayback Machine captures
https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.334Y4KU

This fact check links to 3 Wayback Machine captures
https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.334V6X7

(thank you Roger Macdonald for finding these)

A common humanity -- reasons for hope for 2023 from washpo (citation at end) --Megan McArdle

I spend less time than I used to yelling at people on social media. Moreover, I talk to more and more people who say the same thing. People seem to have gotten bored with the pathological rage-seeking and virtue-signaling behavior that has characterized so much of the internet for the past five or 10 years — particularly for media and academia.

1/2

2/2:

The bullying disguised as piety, the compulsive need to find offense where none was intended, and the deliberate provocations intended to work the other side up into a frenzy are not what the cool people are doing anymore, thank heavens.

It was always fatiguing, and now, apparently, the excitement has been exhausted.

So my great hope for 2023 is that perhaps, instead of looking for reasons to hate each other, we might start rediscovering our common humanity.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/27/reasons-hope-2023/

Wayback Machine is useful to journalists. Very. But we need to archive. Very.

"Past statements of Mr. Santos are relatively clear however: An archived version of Mr. Santos’s former campaign website preserved by the Wayback Machine says that he “began working at Citigroup as an associate and quickly advanced to become an associate asset manager in the real asset division of the firm.”"

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/26/nyregion/george-santos-interview.html

(don't mean to be partisan, just timely)

Please donate.
https://archive.org/donate

@AccordionBruce @therotund @Acousticroutes @internetarchive

Yes the @internetarchive is, both the website and putting into items: https://archive.org/details/tomlehrersongs

I hope more writers musicians set their work free. Such an inspiration.

Be Prepared!

Fight for the Future PETITION: Mega-corporations are trying to ban libraries from owning digital books! Sign on now to tell @AmericanPublish
to turn over a new leaf in 2023 by standing up for libraries + diverse voices.

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/2023books

"We want an ebook to be a book. When you buy an ebook you should have the same rights as a buyer in the physical world. " - me in

latimes column on #ebookSOS

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-12-08/which-last-longer-ebooks-or-physical-books-the-answer-may-surprise-you

The Great 78 Project twitter bot is now on Mastodon!

Each hour it posts 1 newly digitized 78rpm record you can play.

Give it a shot-- it is nice to have something good happening out there in Internet-landia.

@great78 http://great78.archive.org/
https://archive.org/details/georgeblood

go @internetarchive !

What is the Democracy’s Library?

The aim of the new project-- Internet Archive Democracy’s Library is to collect, preserve and make freely available all the published works of all the democracies– the federal, provincial, and municipal government publications– so that we can efficiently learn from each other to solve our biggest challenges in parallel and in concert.

Lets build this together! @internetarchive

http://blog.archive.org/2022/11/30/what-is-the-democracys-library/

Liberating books! #librarygeeking

The Internet Archive has scanned thousands of books that have not gotten the date set via metadata matching, which means we dont know which are public domain... (1927 is coming up on Jan 1!)

so... now I have a command line to find candidate public domain books by grep'ing the full text for "Copyright 19XX" for xx between 00 and 27.

Now we have to QA, update, and liberate!

first results:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tIoFvqhWGl7Nry8DvVL9UYtZ3gSP-hU_ZCefksL4xJg/edit#gid=0

"The Internet Archive just put 565 Palm Pilot apps in your web browser / Dope Wars, Space Trader, Graffiti, memos, calculators and more: the Internet Archive’s instant Palm Pilot emulator is an app store before the App Store."

go @internetarchive ! go @textfiles !

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/25/23478396/internet-archive-palm-pilot-emulation-games-apps-dope-wars

Digital Books wear out faster than Physical Books
is why we need libraries to own digital books:

http://blog.archive.org/2022/11/15/digital-books-wear-out-faster-than-physical-books/