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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
From a bit.ly Blog Post Big news for little URLs today, as the Internet Archive announced that they will be taking the lead on301works.org, an effort designed to add permanence and reliability to the operation of URL shorteners. From the 301Works News Release: The Internet Archive and founding companies announce today the launch of 301Works.org, a service to [...]
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
From the Web Site: The Princeton Seminary library is delighted to be working in partnership with the Internet Archive, a 501(c)3 organization in San Francisco, to digitize a selection of out-of-copyright books from its collections. Approximately 21,000 items have been scanned to date. These books include historical sources about Princeton and Princeton Seminary, early editions of [...]
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Brewster Kahle has many titles. These days he’s best known as founder of the Internet Archive (home of The Wayback Machine) and founding member of the Open Content Alliance. From the Article: “We have to have universal access to everything, just like a library,” he says. “Do we want that under a single corporation’s control? It [...]
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
In August, we first posted about the Internet Archive (IA) asking GeoCities users to make sure their content was archived by the IA. Why? As of yesterday, GeoCities is no longer online. From the Article: Yahoo, which acquired the site for $3.57bn (£2.17bn) in 1999 at the height of the dotcom boom, said sites would no [...]
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
In August of this year we made NASA Images our Resource of the Week. NASA Images is a joint production of NASA and the Internet Archive. Both organizations are working together to create a single searchable resource where all NASA image, video, and audio collections can be accessed. During October, NASA Images added over 4,000 [...]
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Click World News (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
The Internet Archaeology project is a wonderful collaboration between artists, designers, and tech-minded people around the world, started by an artist named Ryder Ripps in New York. "Essentially we're going through older, overlooked websites and archiving content," says participant Stefan Moore, "But the main difference between this and archive.org is that here, there's a focus on showcasing...
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Don Reisinger from CNET offers a review of several places web authors and other users can find and access mutimedia material in the public domain. The sites discussed (it’s important to read) are: + Creative Commons + EveryStockPhoto + Flickr + Internet Archive: Audio + Internet Archive: Movies + Wikimedia Commons + Yahoo Creative Commons Search Source: CNET See Also: This [...]
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Congrats Brewster! The UTNE Reader is out with their list of “50 Visionaries Changing Our World” and Brewster Kahle from the Internet Archive and Open Content Alliance is on the list. You can Brewster’s entry here and review the entire list here. His entry includes a link to a Slate article about Kahle from 2005 and [...]
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
This New York Times article focuses on how patrons are using eBooks and eAudiobooks more and more these days. OverDrive, Google, Scholastic BookFlix and NetLibrary are mentioned in the article but no mentions of other sources (both free and fee-based) like Project Gutenberg, The Internet Archive, or ebrary.*** From the Article: About 5,400 public libraries now [...]
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Cool! Internet Archive News alerts us to the fact that the essential Wayback Machine (TWM) (a service of the Internet Archive) was mentioned on Law and Order SVU in the past couple of weeks. The IA blog post has a text summary of the show and includes the TWM mention (via the All Things Law [...]
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LisNews (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
When the LISNews Summer Series started, it was stated that the essays would be collected in book form. After an interesting variety of technical problems, that has now happened. The book is available in print form at cost here . While a downloadable version is also available via Lulu, it is priced with purpose. The digital version via Lulu sends a portion of the price back to Erie Looking Productions...
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LisNews (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
In an increasingly digitized world, the cyber cemetery has become the main publicly accessible depository for government records that don't exist on paper. The site is maintained by the University of North Texas and the U.S. Government Printing Office. Other entities, such as the Internet Archive, take periodic snapshots of Web sites to preserve information. But the Cyber Cemetery , which also has...
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 08/25/2009
From a Blog Post: Yahoo! announced that it will close the site on October 26, 2009, steering users towards their paid service instead. We have been archiving GeoCities sites for years in our crawls, but, as goes with the territory of being web archivists, we want to make sure to gather as many of the sites [...]
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 08/24/2009
Resource of the Week: Internet Archive’s NASAimages.org By Gary Price and Shirl Kennedy This past week, Internet Archive announced that you can now download high resolution image files directly from the website. The improved download features offer a choice of high or low resolution files for still images, allowing users to select the version best suited for their [...]
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 08/22/2009
From the Announcement: Internet Archive today [8/18] announced that high resolution files are available for download directly from the NASAimages.org website. The improved download features offer a choice of high or low resolution files for still images, allowing users to select the version best suited for their needs. Many images on the site have a dimension of [...]
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