Internet Archive Canada 🍁

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Internet Archive Canada is a non-profit digital library that works with universities, and memory institutions throughout Canada. https://internetarchivecanada.org
https://linktr.ee/internetarchivecanada

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What can we accomplish when people working to preserve government information come together? A new report from the Internet Archive captures what 120 participants shared, learned, and began building together. 🤝

blog.archive.org/2026/10/06/w...
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Information Stewardship Forum 2026 cover with red and blue dot and line graphic, Internet Archive
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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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Hey Vancouver 👋 join us on Oct 27, 5:30-8:30pm at our Internet Archive Canada building.

We're introducing our first-ever AI Builders Fellows + Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle is stopping by to talk about the future of the open internet.

RSVP: luma.com/58wdnop2

luma.comOpen By Design: Tools for Participation - An Evening with Internet Archive Canada · LumaInternet Archive Canada for Open by Design - Tools for Participation. Join us as we explore how we can build a more open and participatory digital future, and…
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The Wayback Machine lets you travel through more than a trillion saved web pages. 🏛️

‣ Find an old website.
‣ See how a familiar site changed.
‣ Recover something that's disappeared.
‣ Check what a page looked like years ago.

The web has a history.
Go explore it.
web.archive.org

#ToolsYouCanUse

Four "Tools You Can Use" Wayback Machine campaign tiles arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top left, a cream and blue tile with a folder icon reading "Wayback Machine" and "Explore more than 1 trillion web pages saved over time." Top right, a cream tile with bold black text: "Explore more than 1 trillion web pages saved over 30 years." Bottom left, a cream tile with a screenshot of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine homepage, with its search field circled in red. Bottom right, a cream tile with bold black text, "See how the web has changed over time," and a small multicolor line-art icon of the Internet Archive's columned building.
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📖 Do you have a fascinating collection in your library that would benefit from digitization, or that would be a great fit for Canadiana?

Apply to CRKN’s Member Digitization Projects initiative this fall! Applications are open until November 27.

Learn more at our website: bit.ly/4x94zdR

The words "Apply to the Member Digitization Projects Initiative. Deadline: November 27, 2026" appear over images of historical documents.
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🌎Join librarians and library publishers from Canada, Australia and Aotearoa NZ for a conversation on library publishing, OJS and community-owned scholarly infrastructure @pkp.sfu.ca @carl-abrc.bsky.social
Details and registration caul.edu.au/event/?id=117

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You can help build the library. 🏛️

Have digital materials you’re allowed to share? Upload them to the Internet Archive so other people can discover and use them.

📷 A photograph.
🎙️ A recording.
📄 A document.
💾 A piece of digital history.

Upload your first item 👇
archive.org/upload
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Four "Tools You Can Use" Upload campaign tiles arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top left, a cream and yellow tile with a folder icon reading "Upload" and "Contribute digital materials that you have the right to share." Top right, a cream tile with bold black text: "Upload digital materials to help preserve and share knowledge with people around the world." Bottom left, a cream tile with a screenshot of the Internet Archive's Upload files page, with the "UPLOAD" nav link and "Choose files to upload" button circled in red. Bottom right, a cream tile with bold black text, "Contribute digital materials that you have the right to share," and a small multicolor line-art icon of the Internet Archive's columned building.
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Who gets to own what we create?

In WHO OWNS KNOWLEDGE, host Lisa Petrides talks with Internet Archive Senior Policy Counsel Lila Bailey about knowledge as a shared cultural commons & knowledge controlled through copyright, licensing, and corporate platforms.

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Podcast cover art for "Educating to Be Human," with the title shown in three colorful speech-bubble logos (orange, blue, and pink). Below is a headshot of a smiling person with blonde wavy hair, wearing a black blazer, standing outdoors against a blurred green and brick background, with white text reading "with Lila Bailey."
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🗂️ Ever seen those tiny images of old documents on sheets of film? That’s microfiche! So, how do they go from film to the Internet Archive? See how these and more are digitized at the Physical Archive tour!

📆 Tues, Oct 20
🕕 6–8 PM
📍 IN-PERSON: Richmond, CA
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1997613506...

Maeve Iwasaki demonstrates microfiche digitization at the Internet Archive's physical archive. Photo by Brad Shirakawa, October 21, 2025.Photo of Brewster Kahle at the Internet Archive’s physical archive site. He is leaning forward and looking into a large shipping container used for storage, with pallets visible inside.
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Preserving and sharing knowledge is connected with preparing for an uncertain future, and allowing people to do that in unexpected ways encourages innovation.
Listen to our Futures Club session with Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive: https://tr.ee/sbwuiM

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📚 What happens when a library doesn’t just preserve knowledge, but gives people the tools to use it?

Find out at Democracy’s Library: Tools for Participation, an IN-PERSON Internet Archive event.

📅 Wed, Oct 21 • 5–10 PM
📍 Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1998015902...

Event graphic for "Democracy's Library: Tools for Participation," Wednesday, October 21st, 5pm–10pm, at Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave., San Francisco. On cream graph paper, a schematic line drawing of a classical library building (columns and pediment) is rendered in overlapping pink, blue, yellow, and orange lines with dot joints, beside bold black and pink text.
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Local and state government records help communities understand their history and participate in public life. But digital records can be hard to preserve and access.

The Internet Archive’s new ATLAS program will help address that.

Learn more 👉 blog.archive.org/2026/09/10/a...
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🌐 The internet doesn’t remember everything.

CARTA Presents: “DIGITAL GHOSTS - ACCESS TO WEB ARCHIVES THROUGH DATA AND CREATIVITY” looks at how creative visualization can make online decay visible, and what disappearance means for cultural memory.

Oct. 7, 8 AM PT

🎟️ us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Photo of a panel discussion at a "Digital Ghosts" event. Four panelists sit in red and gray chairs against a wall with projected text reading "Digital Ghosts" and "Dorsey, Kaufmann & Feeling Data." A large seated audience fills the foreground, with blue lighting throughout the gallery-like space.
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“Fix the Wayback Machine!”

We’ve heard you. The Wayback Machine has been dealing with waves of high-volume automated traffic. Mark Graham, director of the Wayback Machine, explains what’s happening and what we’re doing about it.

➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/09/15/a...

Internet Archive Wayback Machine logo.
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🌐 Celebrate the Wayback Machine & the many other Internet Archive tools that help people preserve, explore, share & build knowledge together!

Join us IN PERSON for Democracy’s Library: Tools for Participation!

📅 Wed, Oct 21 • 5–10 PM
📍 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1998015902...

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Event graphic for "Democracy's Library: Tools for Participation," Wednesday, October 21st, 5pm–10pm, at Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave., San Francisco. On cream graph paper, a schematic line drawing of a classical library building (columns and pediment) is rendered in overlapping pink, blue, yellow, and orange lines with dot joints, beside bold black and pink text.
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🌐 Web archives are never complete. What happens when the gaps become the story?

Dr. Andrea Kocsis (U. Edinburgh) explores this in CARTA's "Digital Ghosts" webinar, Oct. 7, 8 AM PT; five works on link decay, disappearing music & the web's fragility.

✍️ Register today: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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How @archive.org pulled together the BET Digital collecrion and made it usable: wayback-labs.sf.archive.org/bet-explorer...

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Much of BET’s digital journalism is no longer available on the live web. Internet Archive has preserved more than 199,000 BET articles over the years. They can now be accessed through the Wayback Machine & a new pilot explorer: wayback-labs.sf.archive.org/bet-explorer/

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