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...

Support the Biodiversity Heritage Library: about.biodiversitylibrary.org/get-involved... @biodivlibrary.bsky.social @archive.org

Ways to Give – About BHL

Inspiring discovery through free access to biodiversity knowledge. The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available…

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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...

📣 TOMORROW! 📣 There’s still time to join us for THE FIGHT FOR THE PUBLIC RECORD, a LIVE #FutureKnowledge #podcast conversation on one of the defining information challenges of our time. 📅 Tues, Jun 23 🕙 10AM PT 📍ONLINE 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/the-fight-... @merrileeiam.bsky.social

Amsterdam, June 25 Internet Archive Europe is hosting two events: Borrel social, RSVP - o.lu.ma/URS6cNpSn9 And a discussion with Mozilla.ai running open source agents on your terms. RSVP - o.lu.ma/3tXIXyLIGP

Today is International Archives Day. As publishers block the Wayback Machine over AI concerns, 250+ journalists are urging them to reconsider. Preserving the public record matters. www.internetarchive.eu/2026/06/09/t... Sign: savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders #ArchivesForJustice

The Wayback Machine holds 30 years of the web. News publishers are blocking it. - Internet Archive Europe

International Archives Day falls today, Tuesday 9 June. The theme for this year's International Archives Week is #ArchivesForJustice: Rights, Memory, and Futures. The timing is pointed. As reported by...

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🧵1️⃣/4️⃣ The Internet Archive helped uncover a 100-year conservation mystery. Researchers discovered why some bowhead whale populations are recovering from centuries of commercial whaling using Arctic whaling logbooks preserved via the Internet Archive. Read more: theconversation.com/centuries-ol...

My presentation on Democracy's Library at the @archive.org from the Spring @cni-org.bsky.social meeting is now available! If you want to learn more about my work, I'm the first 15 minutes of this recording. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9--u...

Sustaining the Public Record: Collaborative Stewardship of Government Information and Research Data

YouTube video by CNI: Coalition for Networked Information

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Many publishers rely on archived journalism for accountability & research, yet some are blocking the Wayback Machine from preserving it! 📝 Sign the open letter calling on these organizations to stop blocking web archiving & protect access to the public record ⤵️ www.savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders

❤️ Love the Wayback Machine? Some publishers and news organizations are blocking it from archiving journalism—cutting off the public record & future accountability. Want them to stop? ✍️ Sign the open letter to support preserving journalism in the Wayback Machine ⤵️ www.savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders

🧵1/3 🎮 What if cultural history disappears because no one is allowed to preserve it? Jordan Mechner, creator of Prince of Persia, reflects on the fragility of games, media, and cultural memory in his essay in VANISHING CULTURE, from the #InternetArchive. Read it here: archive.org/details/vani...

The Price McIntosh Bursary offers up to $5,000 to support Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, and members of visible minorities who wish to pursue studies in fields related to libraries and archives! To apply: library-archives.canada.ca/eng/services...

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Join us in welcoming Internet Archive Switzerland!🇨🇭 This independent non profit foundation is a mission-aligned organization with Internet Archive, Internet Archive Canada & Internet Archive Europe, with the common goal of Universal Access to All Knowledge. Visit their website: internetarchive.ch

Tell publishers to keep the news in the Wayback Machine: www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/

Annalee Newitz@annaleen.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Meanwhile, publishers are blocking the Internet Archive, a digital library, from archiving their journalism due to fears of "AI scraping." That's right -- the same papers selling their work to AI companies are blocking a nonprofit archive due to "fears of AI." (2/3) www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/more...

ABC killed fivethirtyeight.com, pulling down thousands of stories and dashboards. I can bring them back, but I can offer you https://fivethirtyeightindex.com, my new index of everything captured by archive.org.

🧵 Wayback Machine director Mark Graham is thanking the hundreds of journalists speaking out in support of the #WaybackMachine and the importance of preserving the online historical record. 🌐📰 Read Mark's letter ➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/05/11/a... @mark.bsky.social #WaybackMachine

The Internet Archive at 30: Can the web’s memory bank withstand the AI era? f-st.co/UUPVJBk

The Internet Archive at 30: Can the web's memory bank withstand the AI era?

Three decades after Brewster Kahle founded the Internet Archive to preserve humanity’s digital record, the nonprofit behind the Wayback Machine is confronting AI scraping fears, antagonistic publishers, and rising storage costs that threaten the future of the open web.

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TOMORROW (May 14), I'm doing a free virtual event for the Electronic Frontier Foundation with Wendy "Abolish Silicon Valley" Liu, on the theme of "How to Disenshittify the Internet": www.eff.org/event/effect... eof/

EFFecting Change: How to Disenshittify the Internet

The internet didn’t get worse by accident; it’s been systematically molded into what we have today. Join Wendy Liu live in conversation with Cory Doctorow about Cory's latest book, Enshittification. C...

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News organizations block the Wayback Machine even as their reporters depend on it 📰 In PRESERVING THE WEB IN THE AGE OF AI, Mark Graham, Director of the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive, addresses the issue. 🎧 Listen on Future Knowledge ⤵️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/pre... 🧵⬇️

It's census day! On Odesi, we have census data dating back to 1665, pre-confederation. Explore Canadian census data on Odesi here: oculsp.ca/5ohq5

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Internet Archive@archive.org · 3mo ago

🧵 1️⃣/5️⃣ Announcing Internet Archive Switzerland: Expanding a Global Mission to Preserve Knowledge 🇨🇭🌍 Visit Internet Archive Switzerland ➡️ internetarchive.ch