🎤 STARTING IN 15 MINUTES! 🆓 Join us soon for a free livestream booktalk with author Simone O. Elias in conversation with Sonia Mansfield about Elias's new book, PORCELAIN RAGE: A MANIFESTO FOR THE GEN Z WOMAN. 🕕 6 PM PT / 9 PM ET 📡 Join the #livestream: www.youtube.com/live/vf0w9qq... #Books

Aruba’s digital heritage collection holds nearly 180,000 items for a community of just 110,000 people. 📚 In A LANGUAGE WORTH SAVING, Peter Scholing shares how Coleccion Aruba is preserving Papiamento & cultural knowledge carried through language. 🎧 futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/van... 🧵

Libraries pay millions to rent ebooks they never own. So maybe it's no surprise Penguin Random House is sponsoring arguments against stronger library ebook rights. www.libraryjournal.com/story/news/m...

Moving Beyond the Publisher Playbook: Why State-Level Contract Law is Essential to the Future of Digital Library Rights

The era of mere “firefighting” and polite, incremental negotiation is over. The library sector is asking for relief from ebook pricing schemes that consume tremendous amounts of public dollars while p...

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NPR: How long will the Grateful Dead's songs survive? www.npr.org/2026/08/03/n... Internet Archive: For generations to come. ➡️ archive.org/details/Grat... 🌹💀

How long will the Grateful Dead's songs survive?

The Grateful Dead endured an original run of 30 years, but its appeal has survived just as long in a world where the band no longer exists. The question now is not whether the music will continue, but...

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🗓️ Planning your week? 🎤 Join us in-person or online for the booktalk PORCELAIN RAGE: A MANIFESTO FOR THE GEN Z WOMAN with Simone O. Elias. 📅 Tues Aug 4 Livestream: 🕕 6 PM PT / 9 PM ET 📡 www.youtube.com/live/vf0w9qq... 🎟️ In-person registration: www.eventbrite.com/e/1995153257... 🧵

📚 Preservation isn't only about protecting the past. In A LANGUAGE WORTH SAVING, Peter Scholing shares how Aruba's National Library uses digitization to make cultural heritage accessible. On Future Knowledge's #VanishingCulture series. 🎧 Listen: futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/van... 🧵

🌐 On World Wide Web Day, we’re celebrating the Wayback Machine’s milestone of archiving more than 1 trillion web pages, preserving decades of the web we’ve built. Explore decades of web history with the #WaybackMachine: web.archive.org #Wayback1T #WorldWideWebDay @mark.bsky.social

🌐 Happy World Wide Web Day! Created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1989, the World Wide Web transformed how we share knowledge online. In 2025, Sir Tim was honored as an Internet Archive Hero Award recipient for his lasting impact on the web. More 👇 blog.archive.org/2025/11/05/c... #WorldWideWebDay

📖 At 16, Simone O. Elias wrote PORCELAIN RAGE: A MANIFESTO FOR THE GEN Z WOMAN. Her book explores femininity, culture, history, mental health & the pressures shaping a generation. Elias chose to publish it as an open-access book on the Internet Archive. Get it FREE! archive.org/details/porc... 🧵

🌈 2010. 🎶 Erasure's Always plays as you mash Z, chasing that high score 🏆 and your best sparkly unicorn life 🦄 ROBOT UNICORN ATTACK still runs thanks to preservation & emulation via Ruffle. Flash is gone 👋, but your favorite games don't have to be. 🌐 Play it now! archive.org/details/robo...

📚 When the pandemic closed schools & libraries, students studying Papiamento still needed books. In A LANGUAGE WORTH SAVING, Peter Scholing shares how librarians, authors & the Internet Archive digitized texts so students could keep learning. 🎧 futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/van... 🧵

📚 Why bypass a traditional publisher? At 16, Simone O. Elias chose the open-access route for her 2nd book, PORCELAIN RAGE: A MANIFESTO FOR THE GEN Z WOMAN, making it free & available to everyone through the Internet Archive. Learn more about Elias & the book: blog.archive.org/2026/07/27/s... 🧵

Free speech matters. So does verifying what's true. Without a stable historical record, accountability suffers. A new paper, THE POLITICAL THREATS OF VANISHING CULTURE AND THE NEED TO PROTECT OUR FUTURE MEMORY, explores why. 📖 Read or download ⬇️ journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/artic... 🧵

📚 Research can uncover stories even experts never found. 🌍 African folklorist Laura Gibbs shares how Internet Archive’s full-text search helped her find 60 versions of a folktale, including one in an early 1900s issue of Good Housekeeping. 🎧 Listen: futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/van... 🧵

welcome to the first episode of "why haven't i done this before?" printed my short web comic for @archive.org as if it's drawn for paper printing but only in b&w so it looks like a manga.

🗣️ Myths & folklore are powerful because they evolve. Understanding this depends on preserving the record. Folklore scholars Helen Nde & Laura Gibbs discuss why preserving sources helps us understand how stories and meanings change. 🎧 Listen: futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/van... 🧵

🎬 That's a wrap on our 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest retrospective! This supercut stitches together highlights from this year's entries, showing how filmmakers transformed #publicdomain films, books, cartoons, music, and more from 1930 into something new. ▶️ archive.org/details/2026...

📚 Culture doesn't have to be censored to disappear. 🕳️ Sometimes all it takes is an expired license. 📼💿 The paper THE POLITICAL THREATS OF VANISHING CULTURE AND THE NEED TO PROTECT OUR FUTURE MEMORY digs into why. 📖 Read or download it ⬇️ journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/artic... 🧵

📖 Some folktales are preserved word for word. 🗣️ Others adapt to help communities make sense of the present. 🌍 In this Future Knowledge episode, scholars Helen Nde & Laura Gibbs explore African storytelling and how culture is preserved. 🎧 Listen ⤵️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/van... 🧵

🎞️ In January, @NPR.org covered our 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest, where filmmakers turned newly public 1930 works into fresh creations. 🎬 Our winners series has wrapped—a great time to revisit why the public domain fuels creativity. 🎧 Hear the full story ⤵️ www.npr.org/2026/01/21/n...

🌐 Websites vanish. News archives go offline. Textbooks are withdrawn. Government reports are deleted. A new paper, THE POLITICAL THREATS OF VANISHING CULTURE AND THE NEED TO PROTECT OUR FUTURE MEMORY, asks what happens next. 📖 Read or download it ⬇️ journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/artic... 🧵

🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, JULES RIMET CUP (1930) 🏆⚽ 🖼️ The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Cup was designed by French sculptor Abel Lafleur. Cast in gold-plated sterling silver on a blue lapis lazuli base. See it in our collections ➡️ archive.org/details/jule... 🧵1️⃣/3️⃣👇

Power outage in San Francisco took archive.org offline overnight. We’re back!

Fun @archive.org artifact: An album by Sol Babitz explaining (with examples) why baroque music was being played so, so wrong. He would get so passionate on the subject at musicology colloquiums that police would intervene. Also his daughter was Eve Babitz. archive.org/details/lp_t...

If you don't know the words to search for, history can feel like it never existed. Brooke Palmieri explores how finding queer history requires more than institutions; it takes community knowledge and new ways of looking. 🎧 Listen & subscribe: futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/van... 🧵

Future Knowledge | Vanishing Culture #3: Saving Queer Memory with Brooke Palmieri

Queer history has often been overlooked, erased, or excluded from traditional archives. In the third episode of our special six-part series on Vanishing Culture, host Vida Vojić speaks with writer,...

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Wonder how websites, books, government info & digital history are preserved? Subscribe to the Internet Archive's #EmpoweringLibraries newsletter for updates on the Wayback Machine, digital preservation, upcoming events, and the people working behind the scenes. ➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/07/17/k...

WHAT A NIGHT SAN FRANCISCO. thank you @booksmith.bsky.social and @archive.org for proving love and thank you to the sisters of perpetual indulgence SF CHAPTER who have joined the portland chapter and made me a DOUBLE SAINT. what an honor thank you buckaroos. LOS ANGELES SHOW IS TONIGHT

Casual reminder that anyone can still play the 1990 version of MECC's Oregon Trail online thanks to @archive.org archive.org/details/msdo...

Oregon Trail, The : MECC : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Archive

The Oregon Trail is a series of strategy computer games. The first game was originally developed by Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger in 1971...

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🎬 Why does MOROCCO (1930) still captivate after nearly 100 years? Filmmaker & scholar Denah Johnston explores the film's enduring appeal in this excerpt from our post-screening Q&A. Watch the full discussion + much more of our gala Morocco screening event at blog.archive.org/2026/06/24/t...