Protect Our Future Memory: Join the Call for Library Digital Rights

TheInternet Archiveis a non-profit digital library founded in 1996 with the mission to provide “Universal access to all Knowledge.”  The Internet Archive’s digital collections include more than 40 petabytes of data: 300 billion Web pages, moving images (2.2 million films and videos), audio (2.5 million recordings, 140,000 live concerts), texts (11 million texts), software (100,000 items) and television (3 million hours).  Each day, 2-3 million visitors use or contribute to the Archive, making it one of the world’s 300 most popular sites.  The Internet Archive has created new models for digital preservation by forging partnerships with more than 500 libraries, universities and national archives around the world.

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Join the movement to protect library digital rights. Learn about Our Future Memory & how your institution can stand for access online.

Libraries, archives, and museums have always collected, preserved, and provided access to knowledge for the public good. But in the digital age, those foundational rights are increasingly under threat.Join the Internet Archive and partners for “Protect Our Future Memory: Join the Call for Library Digital Rights,” a webinar introducing <a href="https://ourfuturememory.org/" title="https://ourfuturememory.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Our Future Memory</a>—a growing international movement to ensure that memory institutions have the same rights online that they’ve always had in the physical world.Institutions such as the Wikimedia Foundation and IFLA have already signed on. Now, we’re inviting libraries, archives, and allied organizations everywhere to add their names, share their support, and stand together for the future of digital preservation.Let’s protect our future memory—together.

Speakers include:Lila Bailey, Internet ArchiveMichael Menna, Internet ArchiveJohn Chrastka, EveryLibrary InstituteCharlie Barlow, Boston Library Constortium

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