🗂️ Ever seen those tiny images of old documents on sheets of film? That’s microfiche! So, how do they go from film to the Internet Archive? See how these and more are digitized at the Physical Archive tour! 📆 Tues, Oct 20 🕕 6–8 PM 📍 IN-PERSON: Richmond, CA 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1997613506...

Preserving and sharing knowledge is connected with preparing for an uncertain future, and allowing people to do that in unexpected ways encourages innovation. Listen to our Futures Club session with Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive: https://tr.ee/sbwuiM

📚 What happens when a library doesn’t just preserve knowledge, but gives people the tools to use it? Find out at Democracy’s Library: Tools for Participation, an IN-PERSON Internet Archive event. 📅 Wed, Oct 21 • 5–10 PM 📍 Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave, SF 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1998015902...

Local and state government records help communities understand their history and participate in public life. But digital records can be hard to preserve and access. The Internet Archive’s new ATLAS program will help address that. Learn more 👉 blog.archive.org/2026/09/10/a... 🧵

🌐 The internet doesn’t remember everything. CARTA Presents: “DIGITAL GHOSTS - ACCESS TO WEB ARCHIVES THROUGH DATA AND CREATIVITY” looks at how creative visualization can make online decay visible, and what disappearance means for cultural memory. Oct. 7, 8 AM PT 🎟️ us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

“Fix the Wayback Machine!” We’ve heard you. The Wayback Machine has been dealing with waves of high-volume automated traffic. Mark Graham, director of the Wayback Machine, explains what’s happening and what we’re doing about it. ➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/09/15/a...

🌐 Celebrate the Wayback Machine & the many other Internet Archive tools that help people preserve, explore, share & build knowledge together! Join us IN PERSON for Democracy’s Library: Tools for Participation! 📅 Wed, Oct 21 • 5–10 PM 📍 300 Funston Ave, SF 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1998015902... 🧵

🌐 Web archives are never complete. What happens when the gaps become the story? Dr. Andrea Kocsis (U. Edinburgh) explores this in CARTA's "Digital Ghosts" webinar, Oct. 7, 8 AM PT; five works on link decay, disappearing music & the web's fragility. ✍️ Register today: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

How @archive.org pulled together the BET Digital collecrion and made it usable: wayback-labs.sf.archive.org/bet-explorer...

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Much of BET’s digital journalism is no longer available on the live web. Internet Archive has preserved more than 199,000 BET articles over the years. They can now be accessed through the Wayback Machine & a new pilot explorer: wayback-labs.sf.archive.org/bet-explorer/

If you see something, save something. Web pages disappear daily—changed, moved, deleted, or just forgotten. 🕳️ Save Page Now lets you preserve a webpage before it disappears. See something worth keeping? Save it today. ➡️ web.archive.org/save/ #ToolsYouCanUse

Just Released: Summit on Local News #Preservation Report (via @archive.org) Direct to Report archive.org/details/loca... Direct to Blog Post blog.archive.org/2026/09/01/l... #media #localnews

The Internet Archive isn't just a place to find things. You can: 🔖 Save something before it disappears. 🔎 Discover something you didn't know existed. ✍️ Contribute to a collection. 🤝 Connect with people doing preservation. SAVE. DISCOVER. CONTRIBUTE. CONNECT. ➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/08/17/r... 🧵

We have digitization centres in the UK, Canada, the US and Asia. For more info about the process: digitization.archive.org/digitization/

Digitization » Internet Archive Digitization Services

Learn how Internet Archive digitizes collections with non-destructive scanning, metadata integration, and global access through Archive.org's open platform.

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We've been getting a lot of questions about how the Internet Archive digitizes books. The short answer: page by page, by hand. You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it. Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/m...

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Internet Archive Canada has a six week 5k$ builders fellowship program @internetarchiveca.bsky.social deadline is tonight. Applicants can be located anywhere in the world! bc-ai.ca/fellowship

📚🎵🎞️ Go behind the scenes at the Physical Archive! Join us IN PERSON Tuesday, Oct. 20, 6–8 PM in Richmond, CA, for a special tour of the preserved collections and learn how materials move from donation & preservation to digitization & access. Sign up ⤵️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1997613506...

💃 Copyright uncertainty can keep culture out of public view, even when it’s preserved. In RECLAIMING FAIR USE, Patricia Aufderheide, Peter Jaszi & Dave Hansen discuss how communities use fair use to make cultural collections more accessible. 🎧 futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/rec... 🧵

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Google Search Is Dying. What Comes Next Is Worse | The Walrus

As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing

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🚀 Applications are opening for the AI Builders Fellowship! Internet Archive Canada and BC + AI are offering a $5,000 fellowship for builders, researchers, artists, and developers to create something new from one of Canada's largest public archives. internetarchivecanada.org/2026/08/01/i...

Public archives deserve to be used—not just preserved. Internet Archive Canada is partnering with BC + AI to launch Builders Fellowship: a $5,000 opportunity to build something using more than 22 million scanned pages of Canadian government publications. internetarchivecanada.org/2026/08/01/i...

👉️️ Tue Aug 11 → 7pm • in-person & online Producer @danielbekerman.bsky.social (The VVitch, The Apprentice) shares why he's building a worker-owned co-op streaming platform, changing the medium before the message gets bleaker! ✚ discussions & breakouts! guild.host/events/civic...

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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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... 🧵

📖 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... 🧵

✨ Looking for more DWeb camping? ✨ Co-Adapt. Co-Create. Co-Here. Six days left to get last-minute tickets for DWeb Camp Cascadia, by @dwebyvr.org 💕 Salt Spring Island, Canada, Jul 30 - Aug 3. A few shots from last year:

What does 30 years of the Canadian web look like? Now you can explore it yourself. @internetarchivecanada's new kiosk at @vpl.ca lets visitors navigate 100,000 archived .ca sites through a game-like interface. Because digital memory should be for everyone. internetarchivecanada.org/2026/06/19/e...

🌐 The web changes daily. Too much of it disappears. 🕳️ 38% of URLs that existed 10 years ago are no longer available on the live web. Internet Archive's @mark.bsky.social & Chris Freeland on why preserving the web matters, via @currentaffairs.bsky.social. 🔗 www.currentaffairs.org/news/who-wil...

Happy Canada Day! 🍁 Over one million items — 550 years of Canadian history, in ~90 languages — are free to explore at archive.org/details/toronto. Parliamentary debates, opera libretti, 15th-century incunabula, and more, built by libraries across Canada. internetarchivecanada.org/2026/07/01/w...

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📣 Librarians! Attending #ALAAC26 this weekend? 📚 Stop by Booth 2130 with our literacy partner, Better Worlds Books 📖, to talk to us and snag a sweet Wayback Machine sticker! See you there!

2026 marks 30 years of web archiving — and @internetarchivecanada is celebrating with a public kiosk at @vancouverlibrary.bsky.social where visitors can browse 100,000 archived Canadian websites using a game controller. Digital memory, made accessible. internetarchivecanada.org/2026/06/19/e...