A new volunteer effort to save documents and other artifacts before they disappear…
Source: How The Archive Corps Is Saving Documents Before They Disappear – The Atlantic
A new volunteer effort to save documents and other artifacts before they disappear…
Source: How The Archive Corps Is Saving Documents Before They Disappear – The Atlantic
Reference question of the day was about finding public domain images. Everyone’s got their go-tos. If I am looking for illustrations or old photos specifically I’ll often use other people’s searches on top of the Internet Archive’s content. Here’s a little how to.
1. Check the Internet Archive Book Images feed on Flickr. What I often do is search (which finds the words that surround the images) and then click straight through to the book (which is always linked in the metadata) and then fish around. For example…
The Internet Archive has updated its website.
The Internet Archive is a non-profit library offering access to millions of free books, movies, and music, plus an archive of 400+ billion web pages
Check it out: archive.org
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine.
The Internet Archive will now keep a physical copy of every book, record and movie that it is able to attract or acquire, all with the goal of making sure that there is at least one physical copy of a book or record or film preserved.
The Internet Archive, Now Preserving Printed Books As Well via ReadWriteWeb