• The Fight Continues - Internet Archive Blogs
    http://blog.archive.org/2023/03/25/the-fight-continues

    Today’s lower court decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is a blow to all libraries and the communities we serve. This decision impacts libraries across the US who rely on controlled digital lending to connect their patrons with books online. It hurts authors by saying that unfair licensing models are the only way their books can be read online. And it holds back access to information in the digital age, harming all readers, everywhere.

    • La Bibliothèque Solidaire du confinement #BiblioSolidaire

      Les bibliothèques sont fermées, les chercheur.se.s confinés chez eux.elles... Mais la recherche et l’enseignement continuent !

      Tou.te.s, nous avons besoin pour nos cours, mémoires ou thèses d’avoir accès à des ouvrages qui nous sont inaccessibles en bibliothèque mais que d’autres chercheur.se.s pourraient avoir dans leur bibliothèque personnelle.

      Le concept est donc simple : partagez ici une publication pour demander si quelqu’un a la référence donc vous avez besoin, et cette personne pourra vous l’envoyer par message privé. Certains membres postent aussi le contenu de leurs bibliothèques, vous pouvez les contacter via le groupe pour avoir accès à certains ouvrages.

      En revanche, ce groupe public ne peut héberger aucun document dont ceux qui le partagent publiquement ne sont pas les auteurs : tous les échanges se font entre membres, sous leur responsabilité propre.

      Nous avons mis en oeuvre un système de classement par sujets pour s’y retrouver dans les différentes disciplines, et vous pouvez utiliser des hashtag pour affiner encore le sujet de votre publication.

      Ce groupe a été créé suite à une idée apparue sur Twitter.

      https://www.facebook.com/groups/bibliothequesolidaire/about

    • Announcing a National Emergency Library to Provide Digitized Books to Students and the Public

      To address our unprecedented global and immediate need for access to reading and research materials, as of today, March 24, 2020, the Internet Archive will suspend waitlists for the 1.4 million (and growing) books in our lending library by creating a National Emergency Library to serve the nation’s displaced learners. This suspension will run through June 30, 2020, or the end of the US national emergency, whichever is later.

      During the waitlist suspension, users will be able to borrow books from the National Emergency Library without joining a waitlist, ensuring that students will have access to assigned readings and library materials that the Internet Archive has digitized for the remainder of the US academic calendar, and that people who cannot physically access their local libraries because of closure or self-quarantine can continue to read and thrive during this time of crisis, keeping themselves and others safe.

      This library brings together all the books from Phillips Academy Andover and Marygrove College, and much of Trent University’s collections, along with over a million other books donated from other libraries to readers worldwide that are locked out of their libraries.

      This is a response to the scores of inquiries from educators about the capacity of our lending system and the scale needed to meet classroom demands because of the closures. Working with librarians in Boston area, led by Tom Blake of Boston Public Library, who gathered course reserves and reading lists from college and school libraries, we determined which of those books the Internet Archive had already digitized. Through that work we quickly realized that our lending library wasn’t going to scale to meet the needs of a global community of displaced learners. To make a real difference for the nation and the world, we would have to take a bigger step.

      “The library system, because of our national emergency, is coming to aid those that are forced to learn at home, ” said Brewster Kahle, Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive. “This was our dream for the original Internet coming to life: the Library at everyone’s fingertips.”

      Public support for this emergency measure has come from over 100 individuals, libraries and universities across the world, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). “Ubiquitous access to open digital content has long been an important goal for MIT and MIT Libraries. Learning and research depend on it,” said Chris Bourg, Director of MIT Libraries. “In a global pandemic, robust digital lending options are key to a library’s ability to care for staff and the community, by allowing all of us to work remotely and maintain the recommended social distancing.”

      We understand that we’re not going to be able to meet everyone’s needs; our collection, at 1.4 million modern books, is a fraction of the size of a large metropolitan library system or a great academic library. The books that we’ve digitized have been acquired with a focus on materials published during the 20th century, the vast majority of which do not have a commercially available ebook. This means that while readers and students are able to access latest best sellers and popular titles through services like OverDrive and Hoopla, they don’t have access to the books that only exist in paper, sitting inaccessible on their library shelves. That’s where our collection fits in—we offer digital access to books, many of which are otherwise unavailable to the public while our schools and libraries are closed. In addition to the National Emergency Library, the Internet Archive also offers free public access to 2.5 million fully downloadable public domain books, which do not require waitlists to view.

      We recognize that authors and publishers are going to be impacted by this global pandemic as well. We encourage all readers who are in a position to buy books to do so, ideally while also supporting your local bookstore. If they don’t have the book you need, then Amazon or Better World Books may have copies in print or digital formats. We hope that authors will support our effort to ensure temporary access to their work in this time of crisis. We are empowering authors to explicitly opt in and donate books to the National Emergency Library if we don’t have a copy. We are also making it easy for authors to contact us to take a book out of the library. Learn more in our FAQ.

      A final note on calling this a “National Emergency” Library. We lend to the world, including these books. We chose that language deliberately because we are pegging the suspension of the waitlists to the duration of the US national emergency. Users all over the world have equal access to the books now available, regardless of their location.

      How you can help:

      –Read books, recommend books, and teach using books from the National Emergency Library
      –Sponsor a book to be digitized and preserved
      – Endorse this effort institutionally or individually
      – Share news about the National Emergency Library with your social media followers using #NationalEmergencyLibrary
      – Donate to the Internet Archive

      If you have additional questions, please check out our FAQ or contact Chris Freeland, Director of Open Libraries.

      Update 3/30: To read our latest announcement about the National Emergency Library, please read our post Internet Archive responds: Why we released the National Emergency Library

      http://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-emergency-library-to-provide-digitized-books-to-

      Link to the #NationalEmergencyLibrary:

      https://archive.org/details/nationalemergencylibrary

  • Si vous n’aviez pas encore assez de choses à lire, l’Internet Archive supprime les listes d’attente et met directement à disposition 1,4 millions de livres. Bon là le nombre de ressources deviennent tellement énormes que juste le temps de choisir quoi télécharger, on arrivera à la fin du confinement.

    Announcing a National Emergency Library to Provide Digitized Books to Students and the Public | Internet Archive Blogs
    https://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-emergency-library-to-provide-digitized-books-to-

    To address our unprecedented global and immediate need for access to reading and research materials, as of today, March 24, 2020, the Internet Archive will suspend waitlists for the 1.4 million (and growing) books in our lending library by creating a National Emergency Library to serve the nation’s displaced learners. This suspension will run through June 30, 2020, or the end of the US national emergency, whichever is later.

    #Internet_Archive

  • 400 000 heures d’actualités à la télévision américaine sur une carte

    Le site Archive.org a analysé les enregistrements de 400 000 heures de programmes d’actualité de chaines de télévision américaines réparties sur 4 ans pour en extraire les lieux qui sont cités.
    Cette carte animée permet de voir les événements et les lieux importants vus des Etats-Unis, ceux qui sont négligés et leur évolution dans le temps.

    https://blog.archive.org/2013/12/13/mapping-400000-hours-of-u-s-tv-news
    https://archive.org/tvgeo

    #tv #data #usa #carte

  • Over 1,000,000 Torrents of Downloadable Books, Music, and Movies | Internet Archive Blogs
    http://blog.archive.org/2012/08/07/over-1000000-torrents-of-downloadable-books-music-and-movies

    The Internet Archive is now offering over 1,000,000 torrents including our live #music concerts, the Prelinger #movie collection, the librivox audio #book collection, feature films, old time radio, lots and lots of books, and all new uploads from our patrons into Community collections (with more to follow).

    #bittorrent #pair_à_pair #

    C’est une bonne nouvelle. Que des « grands » acteurs y passent aidera à faire passer l’idée que le pair-à-pair c’est bien, enfin on peut l’espérer.

  • Scanning a Braille Playboy | Internet Archive Blogs
    http://blog.archive.org/2011/08/17/scanning-a-braille-playboy

    There are lots of these scanning centers affiliated with or run by the Internet Archive worldwide, often in alliance with libraries or academic institutions, bringing in a whole range of materials – not just books. Audio, video, microfiche and a few other mediums are being brought in via a very well engineered combination of machines, processes and trained staff. This link gives a lot of information if you’re a group who has a bunch of books to scan in and want a great open service to work with.


    #livres #archive #archive.org #scanner #diy