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The Hachette vs Internet Archive lawsuit is about much more than our own library collection, explains @mariabustillos in @thenation. 🧵 thenation.com/article/cultur… #EmpoweringLibraries 
What’s bad about that idea? Well, it could mean libraries, as public institutions, are no longer protected from corporate greed.
Libraries may no longer be able to choose the books in their collections, preserve works for posterity, or protect patron’s privacy.
Did you know that the Internet Archive has a physical archive that houses millions of books (as in: actual, physical, paper books)? For every book that we lend to users online, we have a physical copy that is preserved in our archive. A 🧵
We get our books the same way as other libraries: we buy books and we receive donated books. Some of those donations come from libraries that are reevaluating their physical collections, like Hamilton Public Library: blog.archive.org/2021/05/26/beh…
And some books come to us from libraries that are shutting down forever, like Marygrove College. The school closed in 2019 & rather than sell off the collection, the Board donated the entire library to us for preservation & digitization: blog.archive.org/2020/10/20/dig…
1/3 As most of you know, we are currently facing a lawsuit brought by 4 corporate publishers who want to stop the Internet Archive from lending books. #EmpoweringLibraries
2/3 Yesterday, both parties in the lawsuit filed summary judgment briefs. Today, we are hosting a press conference about this development. #EmpoweringLibraries
3/3 The press conference is invitation-only but we’ll be live-tweeting key moments throughout the morning. Stay tuned. #EmpoweringLibraries
Today is the Day of Remembrance, commemorating the day when FDR signed Exec. Order 9066, authorizing the mass incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans.
@InternetArchive & @DenshoProject present the Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration:
archive.org/details/digita…
@InternetArchive & @DenshoProject present the Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration:
archive.org/details/digita…
With a grant from the @NatlParkService, we have purchased & digitized 600+ books about the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans, making these often out-of-print books available to researchers, students, @Wikipedia editors & the public.
3/ Ranging from children's books, photo anthologies to scholarly works, the Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration is among the largest collections of online books about this subject.
#history #JapaneseAmericans #WWII
#history #JapaneseAmericans #WWII
At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book.
We never destroy a book by cutting off its binding.
Instead, we digitize it the hard way--one page at a time.
#digitalbooks
We never destroy a book by cutting off its binding.
Instead, we digitize it the hard way--one page at a time.
#digitalbooks
2/ We use the Scribe, a book scanner our engineers invented, along with the software that it runs.
Our scanning centers are located in universities and libraries around the world, from Boston Public Library to the University of Toronto to the Wellcome Library and beyond.
Our scanning centers are located in universities and libraries around the world, from Boston Public Library to the University of Toronto to the Wellcome Library and beyond.
3/ Eliza is one of our fastest and most accurate scanners. Next she will execute quality control checks and fix any errors. Then she ships the book back to our Physical Archive for long-term preservation.
