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Data Commons and IA Forum (Public Session)• Date & Time: Wednesday, October 28, 2026, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. EST (online session), with webinars in English and French. praxis.encommun.io/en/n/-L_L4Q2...

Join us! Watch the livestream on Wednesday, October 21.

Call for Proposals: IASSIST 2027 Conference librarianship.ca/news/cfp-ias... IASSIST 2027 will be held in person in Vancouver, Canada, on May 25-28, 2027 to engage, connect, and collaborate around the theme of Transforming Data Practices.

My great colleagues Mia Carlsson and Marcus Smith from @raa-se.bsky.social presenting the new version of K-samsök, Swedish aggregator for Heritage Data soon to be launched. New datamodel based on Linked Art (CIDOC) and a graph database, open APIs etc. #Digikult2026 www.raa.se/ksamsok

📅 One week. For eight weeks, we've been showing you tools you can use to save, discover, contribute, and connect. On October 21, we're bringing those ideas together. 🏛️ Democracy's Library: Tools for Participation ▶️ ONLINE: www.eventbrite.com/e/democracys... 🧵

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... 🧵

Join us Oct 27, 5:30–8:30 PM at Internet Archive Canada HQ in Vancouver for Open by Design: Tools for Participation. Meet the inaugural AI Builders Fellows + hear from Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle on the future of the open internet. RSVP: luma.com/58wdnop2

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...

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

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

📖 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

🌎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

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 🧵

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. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...

🗂️ 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...

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

📚 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...

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... 🧵

🌐 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...

“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...

🌐 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... 🧵

🌐 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...

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

If you see something, save something. Web pages disappear daily—changed, moved, deleted, or just forgotten. 🕳️ Save Page Now lets you preserve a webpage before it disappears. See something worth keeping? Save it today. ➡️ web.archive.org/save/ #ToolsYouCanUse

Just Released: Summit on Local News #Preservation Report (via @archive.org) Direct to Report archive.org/details/loca... Direct to Blog Post blog.archive.org/2026/09/01/l... #media #localnews

The Internet Archive isn't just a place to find things. You can: 🔖 Save something before it disappears. 🔎 Discover something you didn't know existed. ✍️ Contribute to a collection. 🤝 Connect with people doing preservation. SAVE. DISCOVER. CONTRIBUTE. CONNECT. ➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/08/17/r... 🧵

We have digitization centres in the UK, Canada, the US and Asia. For more info about the process: digitization.archive.org/digitization/

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📚🎵🎞️ Go behind the scenes at the Physical Archive! Join us IN PERSON Tuesday, Oct. 20, 6–8 PM in Richmond, CA, for a special tour of the preserved collections and learn how materials move from donation & preservation to digitization & access. Sign up ⤵️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1997613506...

💃 Copyright uncertainty can keep culture out of public view, even when it’s preserved. In RECLAIMING FAIR USE, Patricia Aufderheide, Peter Jaszi & Dave Hansen discuss how communities use fair use to make cultural collections more accessible. 🎧 futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/rec... 🧵

Google Search Is Dying. What Comes Next Is Worse thewalrus.ca/google-searc...

🚀 Applications are opening for the AI Builders Fellowship! Internet Archive Canada and BC + AI are offering a $5,000 fellowship for builders, researchers, artists, and developers to create something new from one of Canada's largest public archives. internetarchivecanada.org/2026/08/01/i...

Public archives deserve to be used—not just preserved. Internet Archive Canada is partnering with BC + AI to launch Builders Fellowship: a $5,000 opportunity to build something using more than 22 million scanned pages of Canadian government publications. internetarchivecanada.org/2026/08/01/i...

👉️️ Tue Aug 11 → 7pm • in-person & online Producer @danielbekerman.bsky.social (The VVitch, The Apprentice) shares why he's building a worker-owned co-op streaming platform, changing the medium before the message gets bleaker! ✚ discussions & breakouts! guild.host/events/civic...

Libraries pay millions to rent ebooks they never own. So maybe it's no surprise Penguin Random House is sponsoring arguments against stronger library ebook rights. www.libraryjournal.com/story/news/m...

Free speech matters. So does verifying what's true. Without a stable historical record, accountability suffers. A new paper, THE POLITICAL THREATS OF VANISHING CULTURE AND THE NEED TO PROTECT OUR FUTURE MEMORY, explores why. 📖 Read or download ⬇️ journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/artic... 🧵

📖 Some folktales are preserved word for word. 🗣️ Others adapt to help communities make sense of the present. 🌍 In this Future Knowledge episode, scholars Helen Nde & Laura Gibbs explore African storytelling and how culture is preserved. 🎧 Listen ⤵️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/van... 🧵

✨ Looking for more DWeb camping? ✨ Co-Adapt. Co-Create. Co-Here. Six days left to get last-minute tickets for DWeb Camp Cascadia, by @dwebyvr.org 💕 Salt Spring Island, Canada, Jul 30 - Aug 3. A few shots from last year:

What does 30 years of the Canadian web look like? Now you can explore it yourself. @internetarchivecanada's new kiosk at @vpl.ca lets visitors navigate 100,000 archived .ca sites through a game-like interface. Because digital memory should be for everyone. internetarchivecanada.org/2026/06/19/e...

🌐 The web changes daily. Too much of it disappears. 🕳️ 38% of URLs that existed 10 years ago are no longer available on the live web. Internet Archive's @mark.bsky.social & Chris Freeland on why preserving the web matters, via @currentaffairs.bsky.social. 🔗 www.currentaffairs.org/news/who-wil...

Happy Canada Day! 🍁 Over one million items — 550 years of Canadian history, in ~90 languages — are free to explore at archive.org/details/toronto. Parliamentary debates, opera libretti, 15th-century incunabula, and more, built by libraries across Canada. internetarchivecanada.org/2026/07/01/w...

Support the Biodiversity Heritage Library: about.biodiversitylibrary.org/get-involved... @biodivlibrary.bsky.social @archive.org

📣 Librarians! Attending #ALAAC26 this weekend? 📚 Stop by Booth 2130 with our literacy partner, Better Worlds Books 📖, to talk to us and snag a sweet Wayback Machine sticker! See you there!

2026 marks 30 years of web archiving — and @internetarchivecanada is celebrating with a public kiosk at @vancouverlibrary.bsky.social where visitors can browse 100,000 archived Canadian websites using a game controller. Digital memory, made accessible. internetarchivecanada.org/2026/06/19/e...

📣 TOMORROW! 📣 There’s still time to join us for THE FIGHT FOR THE PUBLIC RECORD, a LIVE #FutureKnowledge #podcast conversation on one of the defining information challenges of our time. 📅 Tues, Jun 23 🕙 10AM PT 📍ONLINE 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/the-fight-... @merrileeiam.bsky.social

Today is International Archives Day. As publishers block the Wayback Machine over AI concerns, 250+ journalists are urging them to reconsider. Preserving the public record matters. www.internetarchive.eu/2026/06/09/t... Sign: savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders #ArchivesForJustice

🧵1️⃣/4️⃣ The Internet Archive helped uncover a 100-year conservation mystery. Researchers discovered why some bowhead whale populations are recovering from centuries of commercial whaling using Arctic whaling logbooks preserved via the Internet Archive. Read more: theconversation.com/centuries-ol...