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Weaving ‘Tapestries’: Introducing A New Tool for Digital Storytelling and Archiving
Between text, images, audio clips and videos, there are so many elements at your fingertips to tell a story in the digital era. A new expressive tool is now…
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From Main Street to Capitol Hill, the Case for Democracy’s Library
At a time when free speech is under attack and the public record is fragile, supporters gathered in San Francisco on October 21 to celebrate the Internet…
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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Physical Archive
Internet Archive’s digital librarian, Brewster Kahle, leads a tour through the Physical Archive. Visitors who came to the open house at the Physical…
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Internet Archive Honors Poynter and IRE for Preserving Local News Online
As newsrooms across the United States close, years of reporting are at risk of disappearing. Stories documenting local elections, holding public officials…
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Annual Celebration 2026: Street Fair to Showcase Internet Archive’s Projects and Allies
Every year, the Internet Archive throws a party at our headquarters, celebrating a different facet of our ongoing preservation work. The theme for 2026 is…
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Celebrating 2026 Internet Archive Artist in Residence: Christopher Burch
Written by VITA HEWITT “Echoes of Absence and Mythos: The Un-Archivists of Shitocracy” comes straight from the hands of artist Christopher Burch and opens on…
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Building the Hero Award: The Story Behind Taekyeom Lee’s 3D-Printed Model of the Internet Archive
The Internet Archive Hero Award, as designed by Taekyeom Lee. Taekyeom Lee is an educator, designer, maker, and researcher. The associate professor of graphic…
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The People, Counted: Browse Raw Census Records at the Internet Archive
The U.S. Census has been in the headlines lately, as proposed changes to the 2030 count have sparked debate over who gets counted and what information should…
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Internet Archive to Demo Wayback Machine at Friday’s Uniqlo Street Festival
The Internet Archive is joining other area nonprofits for the Uniqlo Street Festival on Friday, October 9, 2026, alongside the opening of Uniqlo’s new flagship…
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Who Is Government Information For? Information Stewardship Forum 2026 Report
Democracy’s Library exists as a project of the Internet Archive to make government publications and information broadly accessible and available. But…
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Internet Archive to Honor Poynter Institute and Investigative Reporters and Editors with 2026 Hero Award for Preserving Local News Online
The Internet Archive is proud to announce that the Poynter Institute and Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) will receive the 2026 Internet Archive Hero…
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100+ Years of Student Radio History in the DLARC College Radio Collections
Happy College Radio Day! In honor of the annual celebration of student radio (this year on October 2), we invite you to explore the college radio collections…
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Every Night Is Different: Ryley Walker on Preserving Live Music
Ryley Walker says he’s flattered when people tape his live performances and post them on the Internet Archive. If he knows ahead of time, the 37-year-old…
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An Update on Wayback Machine Access
We’ve heard you: “Fix the Wayback Machine!” Here’s what’s going on. The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine has been hit by…
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Negativland, Culture Jamming, and the Art of Making Something New
In 1980, Negativland released its first self-titled album with handmade covers and distributed it through a few record stores in the California Bay Area. “We…
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Internet Archive Receives IMLS Grant to Expand Access to Local and State Government Information
Internet Archive has received funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to support the development of ATLAS (Access To Local And State…
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Keep Our Servers Running: Your Recurring Donation Goes 3X This September
“Universal access to all human knowledge is within our grasp. Our job is to put the best our world has to offer within the reach of our children.” —Brewster…
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National Summit on Local News Preservation Report
On June 17, 2026, the Internet Archive hosted the National Summit on Local News Preservation in National Harbor, Maryland. Organized through our Today’s News…
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A Computer History Time Capsule
Once upon a time, before the Internet, computer hobbyists went to great lengths to learn about their new technology. Many of these learning opportunities were…
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Book Scanning Goes Viral…Again
Five years after Eliza Zhang’s book-scanning video reached millions of people, the Internet Archive’s page-by-page approach to digitization is capturing…
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Preserving a Creative Legacy: How CARTA is Safeguarding Artists’ Websites
Artists today use their websites as more than a business card– they are an online portfolio, CV, document of artistic evolution, and works of art in their own…
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Archiving Democracy: How the U.S. End of Term Web Archive Preserves Government History
Beginning in January 2025, we witnessed an unprecedented removal of material from U.S. federal websites — documents related to education, health, science, and…
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It’s Never Too Early to Think About Your Legacy
The Internet Archive has cultivated thousands of planned giving supporters over the years who have decided when making their legacy plans to include the…
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Service Restored from Overnight Power Outage
Yesterday, the Internet Archive experienced a power outage that took some of our services offline and degraded others. The power outage at one of our…
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Registration is Now Open For Internet Archive’s Annual Celebration
Democracy’s Library: Tools for ParticipationWednesday, October 21, 2026Internet Archive, San FranciscoREGISTER: In person | Virtual Democracy invites…
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Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward
Long before the current kerfuffle about LLMs, Generative AI Artwork, and asking your tax preparation chatbot for a cookie recipe, the concept of artificial…
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Vanishing Culture Episode #6: What We’ve Learned with Vida Vojić & Alice Bridgwood
What does it mean to preserve culture in an age of disappearing websites, platform-controlled media, and fragile digital memories? In the final episode of our…
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Internet Archive to New York: Don’t Kill the Good Bots in the Fight Against Bad Bots
We’re joining with EFF and other civil society groups asking the Governor of New York to veto the Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act. Here’s why. News publishers…
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The Case for Crowdfunding at Scale: How Donors are Fundraising With Us and Creating a Path to Lasting Preservation
Preserving humanity’s memory isn’t cheap. Servers need power, storage needs upgrading, and physical collections need scanning teams working around…
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Vanishing Culture Episode #5: A Language Worth Saving with Peter Scholing
Languages can vanish just as easily as books, websites, or archives—and when they do, entire ways of understanding the world can disappear with them. In the…
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Author Simone O. Elias Bypasses Traditional Publishing with Open Access Release
Sixteen-year-old Simone O. Elias has a lot to say about her generation and the way it is perceived by society. Rather than wait for a traditional publisher…
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Bringing Forgotten Music Back to Life with Optical Music Recognition
Just as printed letters can be scanned and converted into digital text, emerging technology can transform sheet music into sound. A new effort is underway to…
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Vanishing Culture Episode #4: Keeping African Folktales Alive with Helen Nde & Laura Gibbs
Folktales are more than stories—they are living records of culture, identity, and collective memory. In the fourth episode of our special six-part series on…
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Keeping Knowledge Accessible Starts Here: Subscribe to the Empowering Libraries Newsletter.
Every day, information professionals at libraries, archives, museums and research organizations all over the world work to ensure that knowledge remains…
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The Hidden Political Costs of Vanishing Culture
In a new article, “The Political Threats of Vanishing Culture and the Need to Protect Our Future Memory,” Michael Menna and Lila Bailey argue that…
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Vanishing Culture Episode #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…
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Google Summer of Code Contributors Improve Open Library’s Patron Experience
This year, as part of Google Summer of Code (GSoC), the Internet Archive is collaborating with two outstanding contributors to make it easier for patrons to…
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Vanishing Culture Episode #2: The Stories Hidden in Cookbooks with Katie Livingston
Food is having a cultural moment. As America marks its 250th anniversary, new cookbooks celebrate endangered culinary traditions, UNESCO calls recipes…
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Introducing Department of Decentralization, DWeb Camp 2026 partner
Since December last year, when we decided DWeb Camp would take place in Europe, we’ve been hard at work to evolve the spirit of our unique event and adapt it…
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Vanishing Culture Episode #1: What We Stand to Lose with Luca Messarra
As more of our cultural heritage moves online, a troubling question is emerging: what happens when the things we create, share, and cherish simply disappear?…
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Introducing the Vanishing Culture Podcast Series: Exploring What We Stand to Lose
Vanishing Culture is a special six-part series from the Future Knowledge podcast, produced by the Internet Archive and Authors Alliance, exploring what happens…
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The Declaration of Independence, America at 250 and Past Centennials
As America celebrates its Semiquincentennial (250th anniversary) this year, explore a curated list of materials preserved at the Internet Archive documenting…
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Preserving the First Draft of History: Reflections from the National Summit on Local News Preservation
Local news is disappearing. Since 2005, the United States has lost nearly 3,500 newspapers. 213 counties have no local news outlet at all and another 1,524…