Building a Backup to Internet Archive's Digital Collections
The Internet Archive needs our help. According to their blog:
You may not know this, but your support for the Internet Archive
makes more than 3 million e-books available for free to millions of Open Library patrons around the world.
Your support has fueled the work of journalists who used our Political TV Ad Archive in their fact-checking of candidates’ claims.
It keeps the Wayback Machine
going, saving 300 million Web pages each week, so no one will ever be
able to change the past just because there is no digital record of it. The Web needs a memory, the ability to look back.
Throughout history, libraries have fought against terrible violations of
privacy—where people have been rounded up simply for what they read.
At the Internet Archive, we are fighting to protect our readers’
privacy in the digital world.
So this year, we have set a new goal: to create a copy of Internet
Archive’s digital collections in another country. We are building the Internet Archive of Canada because, to quote our friends at LOCKSS, “lots of copies keep stuff safe.” [November 29, 2016 by Brewster Kahle]
Find out how you can help on the Internet Archives Blog:
Help Us Keep the Archive Free, Accessible, and Reader Private
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