The Internet Archive, a nonprofit library in San Francisco, has grown into one of the most important cultural institutions of the modern age. What began in 1996 as an audacious attempt to archive and ...

The San Francisco-based Internet Archive now has federal depository status, joining a network of over 1,100 libraries that archive government documents and make them accessible to the public — even as ...

A potentially landmark copyright lawsuit could affect how libraries are able to scan their own book collections. A potentially landmark copyright lawsuit could affect how libraries are able to scan ...

The New York Times has started blocking the Internet Archive's web crawlers, going beyond standard robots.txt rules to cut ...

The Internet Archive’s online lending library recently suffered a big defeat in court. The organization is best known for operating the Wayback Machine, which stores old versions of web pages, a task ...

The move follows a copyright lawsuit from several large publishers The move follows a copyright lawsuit from several large publishers The Emergency Library is part of the Open Libraries initiative, in ...

Two and a half years ago, the Internet Archive made a decision that pissed off a lot of writers—and embroiled it in a lawsuit that many netizens fear could weaken the archive, its finances, and its ...

Internet Archive, a non-profit library dedicated to archived websites, music, books, apps, and all kinds of information on the internet, has been subjected to multiple lawsuits since its foundation in ...

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If you're a book nerd who misses spending hours at the local library, thumbing through thousands of titles and roaming the shelves, then Library Explorer might help ease the sadness. Currently in beta ...