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Free to All --Boston Public Library Texts Book picture
Library of Congress: 28 Million Books Look inside the book Bookmobile picture 2 in India Egypt: 1 in Sept
Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria Egypt Youssef books Egypt Uganda: 1 in Oct Ondemandbooks Ondemandbooks2 Ondemandbooks3 olpc Olpc ebook ereaders Egyptian Scanner
Bibliotheca Alexandrina ScribeScanner
Scribe Book Scanner by the Internet Archive Toronto Bali Lontar Prep
Lontar Scanning Centers
1000 Books/day, 29 scanning centers, 6 countries 200 uFilm, uFiche / day 30 dollars a book, all told
Texts: All Free
3,000,000 Free eBooks for everyone 250,000 Modern eBooks for blind/dyslexic 100,000 Modern eBooks in Lending Library
Maybe 8 million more to go openlibrary.org for Books • A web page for every book • ~150,000 visitors per day • Open, editable bibliographic catalog Lending Libraries
New: 1000 Libraries lend eBooks in 6 countries e.g. Massachusetts area http://openlibrary.org/libraries
Borrow an eBook http://openlibrary.org/borrow
Borrow an eBook http://openlibrary.org/books/OL24405389M/HTML5_For_Web_Designers
Checked Out! http://openlibrary.org/books/OL24405389M/HTML5_For_Web_Designers/borrow Try another title... Note library attribution http://openlibrary.org/books/OL905152M/Our_Mayflower_ancestors_and_their_descendants eBooks are available 3 ways In-Browser, PDF, ePub In-Browser: With Attribution to Lending Library Instant reading available on any device with a web browser installed, through the Internet Archive BookReader Patron Loans Open Library account holders can borrow up to 5 books at once. How Libraries Join • Sign Up – email [email protected] • Contribute at least 1 modern book, all public domain books, IP addresses, Contact info • Done!
Audio Orchestra Field band Music Archive: 1,000,000 Recordings Digitizing Audio from Records
• 2-3 Million ever produced
• 10-20 dollars each
Audio 1,000,000 items in over 100 collections • Live Music Archive (4000 bands & 90,000 performances) • Netlabels (600 labels) • Mother Jones Radio • LibriVox Audio Books • Berkeley Groks Science Radio • Afropop Worldwide • Old Time Radio • Tse Chen Ling Buddhist Lectures • 78 RPM Records • Free Speech Radio News • Presidential Recordings Moving Images Movie posters Prelinger page movies Film Scanner http://archive.org/911 Archiving Moving Images
• $25 per video hour to mass digitize
• 500,000 videos on the Archive now
• 2 million hours of TV that are not online yet
• Hundreds new user submissions each day
Moving Images
500,000 items in 100 collections • Democracy Now • SIGGRAPH Computer Animation • Film Chest Vintage Cartoons • Prelinger Archives •Feature Films •Universal Newsreels • Mosaic Middle East News • Kino French Films FBI “National Security Letter” Demand for Information about Patron We Sued the US Government … and won.
National Security Letter Lawyers Software: 50,000 titles
Software something Web Archive: 1996 Yahoo Pets.com MIT 1996 wayback Original Press Release Changed Press Release Web Archiving Tool: Archive-it.org • 1700 curated collections • Searchable and browsable • Almost 200 organizations curating Japanese Earthquake Rare Books and Letters Photos Letters and Manuscripts Digitizing Station Next Up: Personal Digital Archives
our digital artifacts
Preservation
Digital and Physical AlexandriaComputers
2002: 200TB Alexandria Egypt Stichting Internet Archive
Amsterdam Petaboxrow
2008: 2,000TB (2PB) San Francisco Modular Storage
2009: 3,000TB (3PB) Wayback Machine Great Room
2011: 6,000TB
San Francisco Digital Archive for Your Collections
• your lectures • your photos • your books • your web collections (archive-it) • storage (upload S3-like API) Physical Archive of the Internet Archive 430,000 books so far
Biggest eBooks Opportunities:
Social Reading
Beautiful eBook
Libraries to buy and Lend eBooks
Universal Access to All Knowledge
…can be one of our greatest achievements
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