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Calling libraries, librarians and web archive enthusiasts!

Here’s a guide on how to celebrate the 1 Trillion Web Pages archived since 1996

blog.archive.org/2025/10/07/c...

Public records, private view.

I used to read behind a private shade, alone with ink, no footprints made.

Now every page I try to see,
demands I share my identity.

Login to read, login to learn.
Who’s reading me while I read?
Whose ledger marks the page I turn?

GitHub - whyrusleeping/konbini Contribute to whyrusleeping/konbini development by creating an account on GitHub.

A little proof of concept I've been working on, it's a version of Bluesky that you can run locally, even on your laptop, that pulls just the data you care about from the firehose, indexes it, and provides you an interface to view and interact with posts.

Should have guessed it: "Due to a lack of apportionment of funds, this website is currently unavailable." oversight.gov is where many reports and audits are collected for Inspectors General across the exec branch. It takes some digging in wayback to access reports. web.archive.org/web/20250000...

YouTube video by Internet Archive lofi Archive radio 🎞️ beats to scan/read microfiche to

The Richmond scanning and archive center has been working on microfiche.
They have a night shift now so you can tune in to listen and watch the live stream by @sof.is day or night!

@archive.org digitizing live

Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It In 1989, Sir Tim revolutionized the online world. Today, in the era of misinformation, addictive algorithms, and extractive monopolies, he thinks he can do it again.

As announced in @newyorker.com, Sir Tim Berners-Lee will receive the 2025 Internet Archive Hero Award!
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Stylized image of a woman reading a book, adapted from a publisher's binding, with a banner reading "Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize 2025."

We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize! Stay tuned this week for more on the fascinating winning collection and honorable mentions:

themillions.com/2025/09/meet...

Athens Calling! Brewster Kahle at the Research and Intellectual Property Law Conference & Celebrates 1 Trillion Archived Web Pages - Internet Archive Europe The Hellenic Copyright Organization (HCO), together with Knowledge Rights 21 (KR21), is convening a major scientific conference on the intersection of research, access to knowledge, and intellectual p...

Athens, Sept 29: @brewster.kahle.org joins the Research & IP Law Conference to discuss building research collections + access to knowledge.
Internet Archive Europe closing cocktail celebrating 1 TRILLION web pages archived via the @waybackmachine.bsky.social!
🔗 www.internetarchive.eu/2025/09/24/a...

This year the @archive.org birthday celebration will honor the web’s history & future & include recognition for 1 trillion webpages archived.

Oct 21 Physical Archive + Scan Center Tour
Oct 22 The Web We've Built presentations & Party

Registration eventbrite.com/o/internet-archive-17912681148

Getting past current versions of university websites: using the Internet Archive in a project finding Australian sociology PhDs We describe a novel online research method using the Internet Archive to find missing university records. This method was used to locate sociology PhDs completed at Australian universities between ...

"Adding Internet Archive Wayback Machine searching to the existing methods substantially extended our ability to track down PhD theses. This method helped us locate many missing records"

Thanks @infodocket.bsky.social for point out this research by Adam Rajčan & Edgar A. Burns

In an hour join @freegovinfo.bsky.social & James A Jacobs for an online conversation about Gov. Data Preservation

12pm CDT, moderated by Shari Laster, hosts @archive.org & @authorsalliance.bsky.social

Registration
blog.archive.org/event/book-t...

And their free book at freegovinfo.info

Are you a musician who is comfortable doing your act on Zoom for 10 minutes to start our all-hands meetings?

blog.archive.org/2025/08/20/c...

Four rights:
*Collect digital materials
*Preserve digital collections
*Provide controlled digital access
*Cooperate across institutions 📚📜
blog.archive.org/2025/07/30/i...

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...

SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean? | KQED The Internet Archive, thanks to its designation by California Sen. Alex Padilla, joins a network of over 1,100 libraries that make government documents accessible to the public.

a KQED exclusive: the Internet Archive joins a network of federally recognized libraries that archive government records and make them accessible to the public. i wrote about how that affects Archive's legal challenges and what it means to be a library in the digital age
www.kqed.org/news/1204942...

Internet Archive is now an official US government document library The US Senate has granted the Internet Archive federal depository status, making it officially part of an 1,100-library government network.

As more and more government information disappears, we're glad to see @archive.org (which has done so much already to preserve our online history) become an official Federal Depository Library!

www.engadget.com/general/inte...

Europe Can Build Its Own Social Media Sebastian Vogelsang thinks policymakers are overlooking the potential for developing platforms on decentralized, open protocols.

European policymakers should designate open-source frameworks like the AT Protocol, the foundation for Bluesky, as critical infrastructure and invest in developing social-media apps on them, argues Sebastian Vogelsang.

Big crowd at #AALL25 for The Future of a Digitalized FDLP and Its Impact!

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-...

SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean? | KQED The Internet Archive, thanks to its designation by California Sen. Alex Padilla, joins a network of over 1,100 libraries that make government documents accessible to the public.

"San Francisco-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean?"

www.kqed.org/news/1204942...

SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean? | KQED The Internet Archive, thanks to its designation by California Sen. Alex Padilla, joins a network of over 1,100 libraries that make government documents accessible to the public.

awesome news. Congratulations @archive.org on being designated an FDLP library!! www.kqed.org/news/1204942...

Sites of shame map of WW2 detention facilities throughout the US

This "Sites of Shame" map of WW2 detention facilities across the US is incredible

maps.densho.org/sitesofshame/

The even trailer by Densho’s Brian Niiya is both beautiful and historic.

Image of a poster for: Join us for the launch of the Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration Films, a new online collection of 100+ films, spanning 80 years of footage, documenting the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. This virtual program will be moderated by Densho founder Tom Ikeda and feature a panel of speakers: film scholar and educator Frako Loden, filmmaker and former Internet Archives leader Wendy Hanamura, Densho Content Director and historian Brian Niiya, as well as Densho Communications Manager Jennifer Noji. These speakers will address the crucial role of film in preserving, commemorating, and teaching this critical history.

Today at Noon PT: Will be the launch of the Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration Films - a project of @archive.org & @denshoproject.bsky.social to make 100 films available for teachers, historians & the public.

To register 4 launch event: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

NEW: Visual Investigation

1,000 Pages Disappear from U.S. Government Websites
Signs of Information Manipulation Under the Trump Administration

vdata.nikkei.com/newsgraphics...

When evaluating healthy environments we see high populations of indicator species. Such as salamanders.
When evaluating healthy AI we should similarly see high results for indicator metrics. Such as salamanders. 🦎

Good idea, we can develop indicator metrics.

Similar to how environmental scientists use indicator species to signal changes in an ecosystem. For example, salamanders are often used to detect shifts in habitat conditions, and canaries served as early warnings in coal mines.

Congratulations to you and to them

They are lucky to have you!

Introducing Pay per crawl- enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access Pay per crawl is a new feature to allow content creators to charge AI crawlers for access to their content.

July 1 Cloudflare introduces pay to crawl
blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-...