Reposted by Internet Archive Canada 🍁CRKN - RCDR @crkn-rcdr.bsky.social · 22h📖 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 013
Reposted by Internet Archive Canada 🍁Tracy Creagh @creaght.bsky.social · 29/09/2026🌎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=117 033
Reposted by Internet Archive Canada 🍁Internet Archive @archive.org · 26/09/2026You 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 🧵 3298128
Reposted by Internet Archive Canada 🍁Internet Archive @archive.org · 25/09/2026Who 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... 28117
Reposted by Internet Archive Canada 🍁Internet Archive @archive.org · 24/09/2026🗂️ 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... 317129
Reposted by Internet Archive Canada 🍁IFLA @ifla.org · 24/09/2026Preserving 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: tr.ee/sbwuiM 041
Reposted by Internet Archive Canada 🍁Internet Archive @archive.org · 19/09/2026📚 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... 616233
Reposted by Internet Archive Canada 🍁Internet Archive @archive.org · 21/09/2026Local 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... 🧵 118546
Reposted by Internet Archive Canada 🍁Internet Archive @archive.org · 15/09/2026🌐 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... 013134
Reposted by Internet Archive Canada 🍁Internet Archive @archive.org · 15/09/2026“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... 4584172
Reposted by Internet Archive Canada 🍁Internet Archive @archive.org · 11/09/2026🌐 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... 🧵 514744
Reposted by Internet Archive Canada 🍁Internet Archive @archive.org · 09/09/2026🌐 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... 012629
Reposted by Internet Archive Canada 🍁Staci D. Kramer @sdkstl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026How @archive.org pulled together the BET Digital collecrion and made it usable: wayback-labs.sf.archive.org/bet-explorer... 019761
Reposted by Internet Archive Canada 🍁Internet Archive @archive.org · 04/09/2026If 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 11695355
Reposted by Internet Archive Canada 🍁infoDOCKET @infodocket.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Just 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 121
Reposted by Internet Archive Canada 🍁Internet Archive @archive.org · 29/08/2026The 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... 🧵 17575220
Internet Archive Canada 🍁 @internetarchiveca.bsky.social · 25/08/2026We have digitization centres in the UK, Canada, the US and Asia. For more info about the process: digitization.archive.org/digitization/digitization.archive.orgDigitization » Internet Archive Digitization ServicesLearn how Internet Archive digitizes collections with non-destructive scanning, metadata integration, and global access through Archive.org's open platform. 4482136
Reposted by Internet Archive Canada 🍁Internet Archive @archive.org · 20/08/2026📚🎵🎞️ 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... 310123
Reposted by Internet Archive Canada 🍁Internet Archive @archive.org · 13/08/2026💃 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... 🧵 214540
Internet Archive Canada 🍁 @internetarchiveca.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Google Search Is Dying. What Comes Next Is Worse thewalrus.ca/google-searc...thewalrus.caGoogle Search Is Dying. What Comes Next Is Worse | The WalrusAs AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing 1238
Internet Archive Canada 🍁 @internetarchiveca.bsky.social · 10/08/2026🚀 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...internetarchivecanada.orgInternet Archive Canada and BC + AI Launch the AI Builders Fellowship – Internet Archive Canada 021
Internet Archive Canada 🍁 @internetarchiveca.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Public 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...internetarchivecanada.orgInternet Archive Canada and BC + AI Launch the AI Builders Fellowship – Internet Archive Canada 0152
Reposted by Internet Archive Canada 🍁Civic Tech Toronto @civictechto.bsky.social · 05/08/2026👉️️ 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... 133
Reposted by Internet Archive Canada 🍁Internet Archive @archive.org · 03/08/2026Libraries 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...libraryjournal.comMoving Beyond the Publisher Playbook: Why State-Level Contract Law is Essential to the Future of Digital Library RightsThe era of mere “firefighting” and polite, incremental negotiation is over. The library sector is asking for relief from ebook pricing schemes that consume tremendous amounts of public dollars while p... 2281126
Reposted by Internet Archive Canada 🍁Internet Archive @archive.org · 28/07/2026Free 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... 🧵 226093
Reposted by Internet Archive Canada 🍁Internet Archive @archive.org · 23/07/2026📖 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... 🧵 111235
Reposted by Internet Archive Canada 🍁DWeb @getdweb.net · 21/07/2026✨ 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: 0157
Internet Archive Canada 🍁 @internetarchiveca.bsky.social · 16/07/2026What 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...internetarchivecanada.orgExplore 30 Years of the Canadian Web at Vancouver Public Library – Internet Archive Canada 0114
Reposted by Internet Archive Canada 🍁Internet Archive @archive.org · 07/07/2026🌐 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... 2268103
Internet Archive Canada 🍁 @internetarchiveca.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Happy 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...archive.orgInternet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine 0125
Reposted by Internet Archive Canada 🍁Internet Archive @archive.org · 01/07/2026Support the Biodiversity Heritage Library: about.biodiversitylibrary.org/get-involved... @biodivlibrary.bsky.social @archive.orgabout.biodiversitylibrary.orgWays to Give – About BHLInspiring discovery through free access to biodiversity knowledge. The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available… 15212
Reposted by Internet Archive Canada 🍁Internet Archive @archive.org · 25/06/2026📣 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! 216336
Internet Archive Canada 🍁 @internetarchiveca.bsky.social · 23/06/20262026 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...internetarchivecanada.orgExplore 30 Years of the Canadian Web at Vancouver Public Library – Internet Archive Canada 0166
Reposted by Internet Archive Canada 🍁Internet Archive @archive.org · 22/06/2026📣 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 06417
Reposted by Internet Archive Canada 🍁Antoine @ant.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Amsterdam, June 25 Internet Archive Europe is hosting two events: Borrel social, RSVP - o.lu.ma/URS6cNpSn9 And a discussion with Mozilla.ai running open source agents on your terms. RSVP - o.lu.ma/3tXIXyLIGP 153
Reposted by Internet Archive Canada 🍁Internet Archive Europe @internetarchive.eu · 09/06/2026Today 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 #ArchivesForJusticeinternetarchive.euThe Wayback Machine holds 30 years of the web. News publishers are blocking it. - Internet Archive EuropeInternational Archives Day falls today, Tuesday 9 June. The theme for this year's International Archives Week is #ArchivesForJustice: Rights, Memory, and Futures. The timing is pointed. As reported by... 03214
Reposted by Internet Archive Canada 🍁Internet Archive @archive.org · 05/06/2026🧵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... 228594
Reposted by Internet Archive Canada 🍁Merrilee Proffitt @merrileeiam.bsky.social · 05/06/2026My presentation on Democracy's Library at the @archive.org from the Spring @cni-org.bsky.social meeting is now available! If you want to learn more about my work, I'm the first 15 minutes of this recording. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9--u...youtube.comSustaining the Public Record: Collaborative Stewardship of Government Information and Research DataYouTube video by CNI: Coalition for Networked Information 1309
Reposted by Internet Archive Canada 🍁Internet Archive @archive.org · 04/06/2026Many publishers rely on archived journalism for accountability & research, yet some are blocking the Wayback Machine from preserving it! 📝 Sign the open letter calling on these organizations to stop blocking web archiving & protect access to the public record ⤵️ www.savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders 1266138
Reposted by Internet Archive Canada 🍁Internet Archive @archive.org · 04/06/2026❤️ Love the Wayback Machine? Some publishers and news organizations are blocking it from archiving journalism—cutting off the public record & future accountability. Want them to stop? ✍️ Sign the open letter to support preserving journalism in the Wayback Machine ⤵️ www.savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders 4822457
Reposted by Internet Archive Canada 🍁Internet Archive @archive.org · 03/06/2026🧵1/3 🎮 What if cultural history disappears because no one is allowed to preserve it? Jordan Mechner, creator of Prince of Persia, reflects on the fragility of games, media, and cultural memory in his essay in VANISHING CULTURE, from the #InternetArchive. Read it here: archive.org/details/vani... 1549250
Reposted by Internet Archive Canada 🍁Library and Archives Canada @library-archives.canada.ca · 28/05/2026The Price McIntosh Bursary offers up to $5,000 to support Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, and members of visible minorities who wish to pursue studies in fields related to libraries and archives! To apply: library-archives.canada.ca/eng/services... 034
Reposted by Internet Archive Canada 🍁Internet Archive @archive.org · 21/05/2026Tell publishers to keep the news in the Wayback Machine: www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/ 5794406
Reposted by Internet Archive Canada 🍁Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 16/05/2026ABC killed fivethirtyeight.com, pulling down thousands of stories and dashboards. I can bring them back, but I can offer you fivethirtyeightindex.com, my new index of everything captured by archive.org. 6384125
Reposted by Internet Archive Canada 🍁Internet Archive @archive.org · 14/05/2026🧵 Wayback Machine director Mark Graham is thanking the hundreds of journalists speaking out in support of the #WaybackMachine and the importance of preserving the online historical record. 🌐📰 Read Mark's letter ➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/05/11/a... @mark.bsky.social #WaybackMachine 2315103
Reposted by Internet Archive Canada 🍁Fast Company @fastcompany.com · 14/05/2026The Internet Archive at 30: Can the web’s memory bank withstand the AI era? f-st.co/UUPVJBkf-st.coThe Internet Archive at 30: Can the web's memory bank withstand the AI era?Three decades after Brewster Kahle founded the Internet Archive to preserve humanity’s digital record, the nonprofit behind the Wayback Machine is confronting AI scraping fears, antagonistic publishers, and rising storage costs that threaten the future of the open web. 0206
Reposted by Internet Archive Canada 🍁By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/05/2026TOMORROW (May 14), I'm doing a free virtual event for the Electronic Frontier Foundation with Wendy "Abolish Silicon Valley" Liu, on the theme of "How to Disenshittify the Internet": www.eff.org/event/effect... eof/eff.orgEFFecting Change: How to Disenshittify the InternetThe internet didn’t get worse by accident; it’s been systematically molded into what we have today. Join Wendy Liu live in conversation with Cory Doctorow about Cory's latest book, Enshittification. C... 194
Reposted by Internet Archive Canada 🍁Internet Archive @archive.org · 11/05/2026News organizations block the Wayback Machine even as their reporters depend on it 📰 In PRESERVING THE WEB IN THE AGE OF AI, Mark Graham, Director of the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive, addresses the issue. 🎧 Listen on Future Knowledge ⤵️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/pre... 🧵⬇️ 127078