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Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.

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📚 See incorrect book information online?

You can help fix it. ✏️

Open Library is a collaborative catalog. Volunteers can improve records, add information, correct metadata, and create records for unrepresented books.

Help make the catalog better.
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Cream graph-paper graphic with decorative pink line art and "contribute" wordmark, plus a pink ">" chevron tagline reading "tools you can use." Bold black text reads "Open Library (Edit Records)." Below, a pink folder icon with the Internet Archive logo and white text: "Help improve the world's largest open library catalog."
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Public records help us understand how government works. 🏛️

At ALA Round Tables on Oct 26, Merrilee Proffitt & Kelly Doyle Kim will discuss Democracy’s Library and ATLAS during “Saving Democracy, One Public Record at a Time.”

Learn more 👉 games.ala.org/everything-i...

Details & Livestream links👇🧵

Poster for ALA’s Everything Is On Fire Spectacular, Oct 16, beside text about an FMRT & IFRT session
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What if you could take a work of art, remix it, study it, share it, or build something new from it?

You can.
Public-domain works belong to everyone to be:
🛠️ Reused
🔀 Remixed
❤️ Enjoyed
🧠 Reimagined

So go find something.
Then make something new.

Free to (re)use.
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Four "Tools You Can Use" tiles in a 2x2 grid on cream graph paper with blue schematic line drawings. Top left, "Public Domain" above a blue folder with the Internet Archive logo and "Free to (re)use." Top right, a screenshot of the post "Welcome to the Public Domain in 2026" with a montage of vintage posters and book covers. Bottom left, bold black text: "Free to (re)use." Bottom right, "Discover something new in the public domain," with a multicolor line drawing of a columned building.
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📖 Papiamento is the native language of Aruba, Bonaire, & Curaçao, but smaller languages can disappear online as English & Spanish dominate.

📚 Read Peter Scholing's essay THE WIND-BLOWN LANGUAGE: PAPIAMENTO in VANISHING CULTURE, FREE:

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Light grey-green graphic quoting Peter Scholing, Digital Librarian, for the Vanishing Culture series, with the question "How do you keep a small island's culture alive when the world shuts down?" and the quote "Online access was not just expected... but became a basic necessity and a direct life-line for many people."
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WEBINAR TOMORROW!

🌐 Web archives preserve a record of the online world, but also gaps & disappearances.

CARTA Presents: "DIGITAL GHOSTS," visualising web archive fragility. Dr. Andrea Kocsis shares works on link decay & vanishing music.

📅 Weds. Oct. 7
🕗 8 AM PT
🎟️ us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Photo of an illuminated blue display screen showing the words "Digital Ghosts" in large white text over a glitchy, pixelated digital pattern, with a "Menace" sign visible on a glass panel in the foreground.
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I love it when a #creative person archives their work on the Internet Archive.

I began doing it years ago with my stories, and it's enriched my life.

Sell your #books.

Sell your #music.

Sell your art, vids, etc.

But also consider future generations.

Add your creations to the #InternetArchive.

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Every live show is different. That makes preserving live performances so compelling. 🎸 Ryley Walker's Live Music Archive collection now includes 95 shows dating back to 2017, giving fans a record of how his music changes from night to night. 📚 Walker's collection: archive.org/details/Ryle... 🧵

Screenshot of the Ryley Walker collection page on the Internet Archive. A photo of Walker singing and playing acoustic guitar sits at top left. Thumbnails of live recordings below include Empty Bottle, Caledonia Lounge, Nash Hall, Deep in the Valley, Baby's All Right, Ballsaal Berlin @ Europa-Park, Hotel Cecil, Hideout, Downtown Artery, Rough Trade, Tubby's, and Creative Alliance.
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🧅🌐 The Onion has been making the news absurd for decades. Founded as a college newspaper in 1988, it launched online in 1996, bringing its ridiculous headlines, stories & snark to the web. 30 years later, it’s still going strong.

Explore web history ➡️ web.archive.org
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Image with text at the top that reads: "Wayback Machine Then and Now" then "THEONION.COM". Below are Wayback Machine captures of The Onion web page from February 8, 1999, and September 7, 2026.
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🏆 Celebrating the champions of local news preservation! The Internet Archive will honor the Poynter Institute and Investigative Reporters and Editors with its 2026 Hero Award for preserving local news online.

Read more 👉

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Graphic on cream graph paper with a multicolor schematic line drawing of a trophy cup in blue, yellow, and pink. Text reads "2026 Internet Archive Hero Award. The Poynter Institute & Investigative Reporters and Editors. For preserving local news online."
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