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Open Library is a non-profit, open source catalog of every book published, run by the Internet Archive. We help patrons across the globe access millions of digital library books for free.

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Open Library @openlibrary.org · 15/04/2026

Catherine Gosztonyi curated the #canadareads collection in Open Library. Read about her journey and what she learned as a Librarian-in-Training. tinyurl.com/4crup7tr

Part of the Canada Reads 2025 carousel in the Canada Reads collection on Open Library

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Open Library @openlibrary.org · 31/01/2026

Tracking down editions, series, and metadata took real sleuthing by the volunteer librarians who built the Nancy Drew collection on Open Library. tinyurl.com/332pk76s

Header consisting of Nancy Drew book covers with the text "Explore the Nancy Drew collection."

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Open Library @openlibrary.org · 30/01/2026

Volunteer librarians curated and organized eight Nancy Drew series into a collection to make the books easier to discover on Open Library. tinyurl.com/332pk76s

Image of a few series in the new Nancy Drew Collection on Open Library. Shows carousel selections from Nancy Drew on Campus and Nancy Drew Girl Detective.

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Open Library @openlibrary.org · 23/07/2025

Now, borrowable K-12 books within the Open Library catalog are searchable by reading level. tinyurl.com/bdu3tcuu

Screenshot of the Pre-K & Kindergarten and Grade 1 reading levels on Open Library.

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Open Library @openlibrary.org · 29/03/2025

Now millions of books will appear with preview links on Open Library search results!

book (The Return of the King) with Preview link on Open Library

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Open Library @openlibrary.org · 11/12/2024

Drini (@cdrini.bsky.social), also staff engineer on Open Library, developed a Table of Contents extraction pipeline using AI that automatically... * Identifies books containing TOCs * Extracts TOC pages as structured text * Imports book TOCs into Open Library * And soon will make them searchable!

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Open Library @openlibrary.org · 11/12/2024

This year, staff engineer Jim Champ helped us design github Project Management Automation workflows to ping our team on slack, so we can respond as soon as there are new comments or contributions from the community! Here's the code github.com/internetarch...

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