The next webinar in the series will be
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2025 6:12 am
Transforming data into useful information requires data engineering. As librarians consider how to respond to inquiries for data, they should look at their tech resources, workflow and capacity. While more complicated to produce, the potential has expanded given the size, scale and longitudinal analysis that can be done.
“We are getting more and more computational use data requests each year,” Bailey said. “If librarians, archivists, cultural heritage custodians haven’t gotten these requests yet, they will be getting them soon.”
Up next in the Library as Laboratory series:
held March 16, and will highlight five innovative web archiving research projects from the Archives Unleashed Cohort Program. Register now.
Posted in Event, News, Web & Data Services | Tagged digital humanities, library as laboratory, web archiving |
What’s New in February 2022
Posted on March 4, 2022 by Alexis Rossi
Here are some of the notable new additions to the Internet Archive from February 2022. (Logging in might be required to borrow certain items.)
Notable new collections:
We’ve been reorganizing some of the items uploaded by accurate cleaned numbers list from frist database our users, and these collections of magazines struck us as particularly interesting:
The Planetary Report: 216 issues of a scientific magazine all about planets.
Film and Cinema Magazines: Magazines dealing with film, movies, cinema and related subjects, including film making.
Hobby Magazines: Magazines dedicated to hobbies.
Books 45,073
This month we’ve added books in more than 20 languages. Here are a few good ones to start with:
The audio archive contains recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by our users.
The LibriVox Free Audiobook Collection 118
Founded in 2005, Librivox is a community of volunteers from all over the world who record audio versions of public domain texts: poetry, short stories, whole books, even dramatic works, in many different languages.
The Live Music Archive is a community committed to providing the highest quality live concerts in a lossless, downloadable format, along with the convenience of on-demand streaming.
Netlabels 263
The Netlabels collection hosts complete, freely downloadable/streamable, often Creative Commons-licensed catalogs of virtual record labels.
The Internet Arcade is a web-based library of arcade (coin-operated) video games from the 1970s through to the 1990s, emulated in JSMAME, part of the JSMESS software package. Containing hundreds of games ranging through many different genres and styles, the Arcade provides research, comparison, and entertainment in the realm of the Video Game Arcade.
Posted in 78rpm, Audio Archive, Books Archive, Cool items, Lending Books, Live Music Archive, News |
Independent Publisher Drives Innovation, Sells eBooks to Internet Archive
Posted on March 2, 2022 by Caralee Adams
Publisher of 11:11 Press says it sells—rather than licenses—books to libraries for online lending to reach a broad audience.
The goal of 11:11 Press is to have its books in every library in the world, according to its founder and publisher, Andrew Wilt.
Andrew Wilt, 11:11 Press
“We are big supporters of libraries because they allow equal access to knowledge and preserve culture,” said Wilt, whose independent press based in Minneapolis sells its books at a discount to nonprofits. “From a publishing standpoint, our authors care about being read so we want to get our books to as many people as possible.”
The Internet Archive recently bought the entire catalog of books from 11:11 Press and made them available online for controlled digital lending to one person at a time.
“Honestly, I don’t know why anyone would not want to have their books in a library, especially the Internet Archive, which is more relevant now than it has been any other time,” Wilt said. “It used to be the library of the future. But in our era of remote learning and people working from home, the Internet Archive is the library of the present. You don’t have to go into an actual physical building. It’s available for anyone with an internet connection. It’s probably the most relevant lending institution at the moment.”
“We are getting more and more computational use data requests each year,” Bailey said. “If librarians, archivists, cultural heritage custodians haven’t gotten these requests yet, they will be getting them soon.”
Up next in the Library as Laboratory series:
held March 16, and will highlight five innovative web archiving research projects from the Archives Unleashed Cohort Program. Register now.
Posted in Event, News, Web & Data Services | Tagged digital humanities, library as laboratory, web archiving |
What’s New in February 2022
Posted on March 4, 2022 by Alexis Rossi
Here are some of the notable new additions to the Internet Archive from February 2022. (Logging in might be required to borrow certain items.)
Notable new collections:
We’ve been reorganizing some of the items uploaded by accurate cleaned numbers list from frist database our users, and these collections of magazines struck us as particularly interesting:
The Planetary Report: 216 issues of a scientific magazine all about planets.
Film and Cinema Magazines: Magazines dealing with film, movies, cinema and related subjects, including film making.
Hobby Magazines: Magazines dedicated to hobbies.
Books 45,073
This month we’ve added books in more than 20 languages. Here are a few good ones to start with:
The audio archive contains recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by our users.
The LibriVox Free Audiobook Collection 118
Founded in 2005, Librivox is a community of volunteers from all over the world who record audio versions of public domain texts: poetry, short stories, whole books, even dramatic works, in many different languages.
The Live Music Archive is a community committed to providing the highest quality live concerts in a lossless, downloadable format, along with the convenience of on-demand streaming.
Netlabels 263
The Netlabels collection hosts complete, freely downloadable/streamable, often Creative Commons-licensed catalogs of virtual record labels.
The Internet Arcade is a web-based library of arcade (coin-operated) video games from the 1970s through to the 1990s, emulated in JSMAME, part of the JSMESS software package. Containing hundreds of games ranging through many different genres and styles, the Arcade provides research, comparison, and entertainment in the realm of the Video Game Arcade.
Posted in 78rpm, Audio Archive, Books Archive, Cool items, Lending Books, Live Music Archive, News |
Independent Publisher Drives Innovation, Sells eBooks to Internet Archive
Posted on March 2, 2022 by Caralee Adams
Publisher of 11:11 Press says it sells—rather than licenses—books to libraries for online lending to reach a broad audience.
The goal of 11:11 Press is to have its books in every library in the world, according to its founder and publisher, Andrew Wilt.
Andrew Wilt, 11:11 Press
“We are big supporters of libraries because they allow equal access to knowledge and preserve culture,” said Wilt, whose independent press based in Minneapolis sells its books at a discount to nonprofits. “From a publishing standpoint, our authors care about being read so we want to get our books to as many people as possible.”
The Internet Archive recently bought the entire catalog of books from 11:11 Press and made them available online for controlled digital lending to one person at a time.
“Honestly, I don’t know why anyone would not want to have their books in a library, especially the Internet Archive, which is more relevant now than it has been any other time,” Wilt said. “It used to be the library of the future. But in our era of remote learning and people working from home, the Internet Archive is the library of the present. You don’t have to go into an actual physical building. It’s available for anyone with an internet connection. It’s probably the most relevant lending institution at the moment.”