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CLIR Now Accepting Applications for Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices Grant Program CLIR Now Accepting Applications for Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices Grant Program August 5, 2025, Alexandria, VA: The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is no...

CLIR is now accepting applications for Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices! Grants from $50K to $300K support the digitization of rare materials that center on underrepresented communities. Initial apps due Oct. 20.

🌐 www.clir.org/2025/08/auv4...

“Recent events have strengthened the need to keep Flash preserved—for example, shutdowns of the Cartoon Network’s website wiped out hundreds of Flash games and animations that only existed on the site, and will never show up on a DVD or streaming service.” Jason Scott Free-range archivist

Once the lifeblood of online creativity—from silly games to iconic animations—Flash has all but disappeared from the live web. 🕳️

In our latest Vanishing Culture essay, free-range archivist Jason Scott @textfiles.com explores why Flash deserves to be preserved.

🔗 blog.archive.org/2025/08/06/v...

Don’t miss the #DWeb Weekend, happening in 10 days at @archive.org in San Francisco!

With Prof. Christian Tschudin, Andreas Dzialocha, David Thompson, Ying Tong Lai, @taoeffect.com, Michael Toomim, Eric Harris-Braun, and Duke Dorje.

ℹ️ + RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/dweb-weeke...

Speaker profile artwork for Christopher Whitaker

🚨 Speaker Spotlight: @civicwhitaker.com

Christopher is the Executive Director of the Alliance of Civic Technologists and has spent years growing the civic tech community.

Don’t miss Christopher and a lineup of civic innovators who impact how we serve the public.

🎟️ civic-spark.com

Podcast cover for Episode #6 of "Future Knowledge" titled "Four Digital Rights for Memory Institutions." The design features a portrait of a woman with glasses and wavy blonde hair (likely Lila Bailey), along with collage-style imagery including a vintage computer labeled "NEW," a classical statue head, modernist buildings, and a stylized observation tower. Guests listed are Lila Bailey, Brewster Kahle, Caroline de Cock, Adam Sofronijević, Stephen Wyber, Raymond Hernandez, and Peter Scholing. Bold typography and retro-futuristic visuals create a vintage sci-fi aesthetic.

What rights do libraries & archives need to preserve our shared cultural heritage in the digital age? We explore the Four Digital Rights statement with global librarians, incl. Stephen Wyber of @ifla.org.

🎧 futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/fou...

Co-hosted with @authorsalliance.bsky.social

Strength in Numbers: IFLA Joins Our Future Memory + Future Knowledge Podcast Episode - Internet Archive Europe Building on the momentum of our Our Future Memory campaign, we’re thrilled to share two major developments: 🌍 IFLA Joins the Statement This week, the International Federation of Library Associations…

📢 Big news from @internetarchive.eu:

🌍 @ifla.org has signed the Four Digital Rights for Memory Institutions, asserting that in the digital age, libraries, archives & museums must be able to:

📥 Collect
🛡️ Preserve
📖 Provide Access
🤝 Cooperate

Learn more 🔗 www.internetarchive.eu/2025/07/30/s...

Hi 👋 Librarian at the Internet Archive here.

Last week’s announcement that @archive.org is now a Federal Depository Library sparked some great questions—so we put together a new FAQ to explain what this means (and what it doesn’t). 👉 help.archive.org/help/federal...

FAQ from @archive.org on becoming an FDLP. TL;DR it's a feature, not a bug. Onward (next time with fewer acronyms).

help.archive.org/help/federal...

Cover of Rotunda magazine, Summer/Fall 2003, with Art Deco vase

Cover of Rotunda Magazine, Summer 1975, with illustrated owl.

Looking for some summer reading? We recently digitized these beautiful and educational issues of Rotunda: archive.org/details/rotu..., the magazine of the Royal Ontario Museum @romtoronto.bsky.social.

Image promoting an event. Features DWeb logo, a stylized image of the night sky with constellations, and headshots of speakers Ksenia Ermoshina, Brendan "B5" O'Brien, Ana Jamborcic, and Johann Michalove. Text reads: Decentralized Tech to Resist Authoritarianism, lightning talks, July 30, 10 am PT, virtual.

What tech can people use right now to organize?
Find out at this week's DWeb Virtual Meetup.
Presentations, demos, & talk on tools for mutual power
📅 Wed, July 30
🕙 10 AM PT / 1PM ET / 19 CET
📍 ONLINE
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1510991800...

@GETDWeb.net

Interested in how libraries preserve government information? Join us for a conversation with James Jacobs ⬇️ & his co-author—ALSO NAMED JAMES JACOBS (!!)—on August 28: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...

CNI 2025 - Brewster Kahle - Libraries at Risk:Borrowed Infrastructure and and Institutional Resilience This is "CNI 2025 - Brewster Kahle - Libraries at Risk:Borrowed Infrastructure and and Institutional Resilience" by EDUCAUSE on Vimeo, the home for high…

📚 “Every citizen should know that libraries are under attack.”

In a new interview‬, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle outlines the structural threats facing libraries today & the paths forward for an enduring library system.

@cni-org.bsky.social @brewster.kahle.org

vimeo.com/1103555091/8...

Please join us for a virtual book talk August 28th at 10am PST hosted by the Internet Archive (FREE!) to talk about our new book “Preserving Government Information: Past, Present, and Future.” freegovinfo.info/node/14881/

Why is it important to preserve news in the digital age? The Vanishing Culture Report

"It is obviously the case that we are creating information, culture, and benchmarks for society faster than we can figure out how we’re going to make sure they’re preserved." - Philip Bump @pbump.com, in a Q&A for the Vanishing Culture report.

🔗 blog.archive.org/2024/11/04/v...

🕳️ #VanishingCulture

Screenshot of the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies blog announcing the 5,000th item digitized

📚 The Institute of Governmental Studies Library at @UCBerkeley has digitized over 5,000 local government documents from California, preserving rare reports & essential records for researchers & the public.

Learn more ➡️ archive.org/details/igsc...
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@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social

Nothing like getting GOOD news on a Friday!

Andrew Ilersich A Network Status Map for the TTC Civic Tech TORONTO Hacknight #502 IN PERSON AND ONLINE Tues July 22 → 7pm

Andrew Ilersich presents on Tuesday about TTCmap.ca, a real-time network status map that shows all the current TTC subway service disruptions in one place

Plus our usual project and discussion breakouts, naturally

Come join us!

𝟳𝗽𝗺 𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀 𝟮𝟮 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 in person and online 👍

guild.host/events/civic...

Check out Canadian historian @ianmilligan1.bsky.social and Internet Archive founder @brewster.kahle.org discussing Canada’s role in preserving our digital heritage (moderated by @takarasmall.bsky.social).

🎧 Listen to the Future Knowledge #podcast

futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the...

We’re hiring! Join AIP’s research team as an Archives Fellow or Intern to help highlight women’s contributions to the physical sciences. Great part time opportunities for grad students.

Apply here:
- Fellow: workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...
- Intern: workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

Digital ownership matters for preservation of the published record - libraries can’t preserve what we don’t own.

Check out what BRIET is doing to help libraries build lasting digital collections ⬇️

Cover image of magazine Dark Fantasy No. 22, March 1980

@queensu Library has been collaborating with the @internetarchive.bsky.social on a digitization project that uses Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) to make copies of small print-run fanzines or zines of science fiction/fantasy/speculative fiction available.
internetarchivecanada.org/2025/07/15/s...

Illustration for the "Future Knowledge" podcast, Episode #4, The Internet Con with Cory Doctorow. Features a photo of Doctorow in his office set against a surreal, retro-futuristic background that blends past and future elements, including a bust of a Roman figure, an old Macintosh-type computer, etc. At the bottom, bold text reads: “FUTURE KNOWLEDGE.”

🎙️ If you missed the most recent episode of FUTURE KNOWLEDGE, now’s a great time to listen. Cory Doctorow talks about THE INTERNET CON: his guide to loosening Big Tech’s grip & reclaiming a more open web.

🎧 Listen & subscribe ⤵️
futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the...

Yes! Coming this fall - 1 trillion pages captured! Help us celebrate by letting us know what your favourites are. 🎉 #WaybackMachine

Fabric: Alternative Futures with Tech Unconference · Luma Technology is deeply woven into our culture. However too often, the public conversation of tech focuses on either unrestrained hype or outright…

this friday (july 11) + saturday (july 12) :)
lu.ma/uvdp3g1j

Off Hours? Watch a 2hr stream at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gibUecoF1bEEver wonder how government documents, locked away on tiny sheets of microfiche, b... lofi Archive radio 🎞️ beats to scan/read microfiche to

Twice the shifts, twice the microfiche 📄💪
Democracy’s Library scanning livestream now runs from 7:30 AM to midnight PT.

Tune in & watch public records from across the country preserved in real time:
📡 www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPg2...

#GovernmentDocs #LiveNow #Livestream

From @internetarchive.eu: "Internet Archive Europe proudly announces the launch of Our Future Memory, a global campaign dedicated to safeguarding the digital rights of libraries, archives, and museums worldwide." www.internetarchive.eu/protecting-t...

Screenshot of the website "Our Future Memory" Protecting the Past to Power the Future The Digital Rights Statement aims to safeguard the essential digital activities of libraries, archives, and museums (collectively referred to as “memory institutions”). It urges policymakers and communities to ensure these institutions retain the same rights and responsibilities online that they have historically held offline.

Today at LIBER 2025 in Lausanne, we launched Our Future Memory—a campaign to guarantee libraries & archives the digital rights to collect, preserve, lend & cooperate.
Stand with us: ourfuturememory.org
#ProtectOurFutureMemory

www.internetarchive.eu/protecting-t...

I didn’t see it get much/any attention, but the Canadian government has launched a consultation on a potential Canada-EU Digital Trade Agreement. Could cover everything from IP to AI to privacy rules. Submission deadline is August 23rd.
international.canada.ca/en/global-af...

Actor Dylan Cote and the title card from the short film 'Moving Pictures Aren’t What They Used to Be,' a short film by Jeremy Floyd, which earned an Honorable Mention for the 2025 Public Domain Day Remix Contest.

A frame of Dylan Cote from the short film 'THE WAYBACK MACHINE,' a short film by Diego Diaz and Can Sark, which earned an Honorable Mention for the 2025 Public Domain Day Remix Contest.

A frame of Dylan Cote from the short film 'THE WAYBACK MACHINE,' a short film by Diego Diaz and Can Sark, which earned an Honorable Mention for the 2025 Public Domain Day Remix Contest.

Learn how Diego Diaz & Can Sark's THE WAYBACK MACHINE won an Honorable Mention in the Internet Archive’s 2025 Public Domain Day Film Remix Contest: a tongue-in-cheek look at the public domain.

➡️ ronrockycoloma.com/2025/05/19/t...
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🍁 Happy Canada Day! 🍁
Celebrate by exploring our rich history through amazing digital collections from libraries and archives across the country 🇨🇦
📚 Discover newspapers, books, city directories & more:
🔗 archive.org/details/toronto
#CanadaDay #DigitalArchives #CanadianHistory #DemocracysLibrary