📚As a library, deeply concerned about everyone's access to knowledge, it's hard to overemphasize why this Washington Post Perspective is so important.

washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
2/ That illustration says it all.
It's what digital library shelves will look like in a few years. Empty except the current bestsellers. Why? Because publishers refuse to sell ebooks to libraries, only license them thru subscriptions. (Think Netflix for library books.)
3/ And now Amazon is refusing to sell or license its ebooks and audiobooks to libraries at all. @GeoffreyFowler: "Amazon treating digital collections differently than print is a 'particularly pernicious new form of the digital divide,' the @ALALibrary told Congress."
4/ @geoffreyfowler writes: "Another problem: Libraries can’t archive for posterity what they don’t have access to."

@library_futures is a new organization fighting for libraries' rights in the digital age. Follow them & help libraries fight for the right to own & lend books.

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12 Mar
So, just how does a small-ish nonprofit like the @InternetArchive manage to serve & preserve 70 petabytes of data, 24/7 to 1+ million patrons each day?

A small, smart Infrastructure team keeps the discs spinning & data flowing. Here @jonahedwards explains
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2/ Every week, our @InternetArchive staff gathers for "Friday Lunch" & a presentation by a staff member. @jonahedwards leads our core infrastructure team. Here, he's walking us through the numbers.
3/ Our motto inside the Archive is "Bits in (store stuff forever) & Bits Out (serve stuff to you all over the world.)" If we can do that, we're succeeding.

Doing that ourselves by maintaining servers, racks, cable...well it's part of the mission.
#UniversalAccesstoAllKnowledge
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25 Feb
🎶Here's 230,000+ 78 rpm recordings: archive.org/details/78rpm
🎸🥁🎙️ And an eclectic mix of 6000+ "Unlocked Recordings" --pre-1972 LPs now available. archive.org/details/unlock…
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24 Feb
#Beat publisher, @CityLightsBooks co-founder & #poet #LawrenceFerlinghetti died yesterday at age 101.

Back in 2015, @internetarchive was honored to have him over for a "Radical Theater Dinner" w/ Bread & Puppet Theater founder, Peter Schumann & leaders of the SF Mime Troupe. ImageImage
2/ That evening, #Ferlinghetti generously autographed his books of poetry, reminisced with old friends, and recited one of his works by heart.

#poetry #RadicalMusings ImageImageImage
3/ In the @internetarchive, we are honored to house 260+ films, interviews, books & zines featuring #Ferlinghetti, including this 1965 film of the poet ruminating from his home in #SanFrancisco.
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20 Feb
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…
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
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19 Feb
Miss yesterday's How-To Session about the @OpenLibrary Explorer?

Never fear, the webinar video is now available: archive.org/details/open-l…
Try the Open Library Explorer at openlibrary.org/explore & share your feedback.
#Libraries, want to see your books in the Explorer? Email us: openlibrary@archive.org
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19 Feb
The donation by @carlmalamud of his lovingly curated cookbooks, got us thinking. What's in the @InternetArchive's cookbook collections?

The biggest collection is this one, featuring 11,752 books on cooking & home economics:
archive.org/details/cbk

#Cooking
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3/ Italy's most famous chef included these meticulous engravings on the ideal 16th c. kitchen, the tools, utensils & operations needed to cook for a Pope.
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