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Userbox

I have created a userbox to help spread the word that Internet Archive is a useful website archiving service. {{User Internet Archive}}

Unverifiable list of digitizing sponsors for books

The table of book-digitization sponsors that formerly appeared in the article has been pasted below because it is based on an apparently unverifiable source. If the table is created again, it should be created using a verifiable source and more up-to-date numbers. The text below is from the article. Biogeographist (talk) 18:21, 4 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

As of December 2018, over 50 sponsors helped the Internet Archive provide over 5 million scanned books (text items). Of these, over 2 million were scanned by Internet Archive itself, funded either by itself or by MSN, the University of Toronto or the Internet Archive's founder's Kahle/Austin Foundation.^[1]

The collections for scanning centers often include also digitisations sponsored by their partners, for instance the University of Toronto performed scans supported by other Canadian libraries.

Sponsor	Main collection	Texts (December 2018)^[1]
Google	[1]	1,302,624
Internet Archive	[2]	917,202
Kahle/Austin Foundation	[3]	471,376
MSN	[4]	420,069
University of Toronto	[5]	176,888
U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library	[6]	150,984
Wellcome Library	[7]	127,701
University of Alberta Libraries	[8]	100,511
China-America Digital Academic Library (CADAL)	[9]	91,953
Sloan Foundation	[10]	83,111
The Library of Congress	[11]	79,132
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	[12]	72,269
Princeton Theological Seminary Library	[13]	66,442
Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries	[14]	59,562
Jisc and Wellcome Library		55,878
Lyrasis members and Sloan Foundation	[15]	54,930
Boston Public Library	[16]	54,067
Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group	[17]	51,884
Getty Research Institute	[18]	46,571
Greek Open Technologies Alliance through Google Summer of Code	[19]	45,371
University of Ottawa	[20]	44,808
BioStor	[21]	42,919
Naval Postgraduate School, Dudley Knox Library	[22]	37,727
University of Victoria Libraries	[23]	37,650
The Newberry Library	[24]	37,616
Brigham Young University	[25]	33,784
Columbia University Libraries	[26]	31,639
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	[27]	29,298
INRA (France)	[28]	26,293
Montana State Library	[29]	25,372
Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center	[30]	24,829
Michael Best		24,825
Bibliotheca Alexandrina	[31]	24,555
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Alternates	[32]	22,726
Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences	[33]	21,468
University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries	[34]	20,827
Environmental Data Resources, Inc.		20,259
Public.Resource.Org	[35]	20,185
Smithsonian Libraries	[36]	19,948
Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society	[37]	18,781
NIST Research Library	[38]	18,739
Open Knowledge Commons, United States National Library of Medicine	[39]	18,091
Biodiversity Heritage Library	[40]	17,979
Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries]]	[41]	17,880
Corporation of the Presiding Bishop, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints		16,880
Leo Baeck Institute Archives	[42]	16,769
North Carolina Digital Heritage Center	[43]	14,355
California State Library, Califa/LSTA Grant	[44]	14,149
Duke University Libraries	[45]	14,122
The Black Vault		13,765
Buddhist Digital Resource Center	[46]	13,460
John Carter Brown Library	[47]	12,943
MBL/WHOI Library	[48]	11,538
Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library	[49]	10,196
AFS Intercultural Programs	[50]	10,114

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^ ^a ^b "Internet Archive meta manager". Archived from the original on January 27, 2019. Retrieved December 20, 2018.^{[failed verification]}

archive.org redirect

There's a redirect-confused that says "archive.org redirects here". But currently archive.org redirects to Wayback Machine. But again, it should redirect here because the Internet Archive is much more than just the websites archive. Wikipedians figure it out.--95.208.211.114 (talk) 12:49, 29 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

A drive-by IP edit changed the redirect about a week ago. I've restored it. Mind matrix 15:25, 29 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

clarify lede

The main subject of this article seems to be the 501c3 nonprofit organization that runs the Internet Archive digital libary and other products/services. The first 2 paragraphs of the article focus on both at once. Would it make sense to slightly rephrase the lede so that the organization is clearly distinguished from the products/services it produces? -- Oa01 (talk) 11:37, 16 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Status

Does anybody have some news about the current status since it lost the lawsuit? Mr.Lovecraft (talk) 09:31, 5 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for that question.

As I covered at the Internet Archive's annual update, at this year's Wikimania gathering, here is a blog post we have shared https://blog.archive.org/2023/08/17/what-the-hachette-v-internet-archive-decision-means-for-our-library/ Markjgraham hmb (talk) 18:33, 5 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah i´ve read that already... But when i tried to borrow a book last Monday it worked at least for one hour. So i was woundering whether it was just a technical error or indeed the consequences from that lawsuit... Mr.Lovecraft (talk) 09:29, 6 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I was "borrowing heavily" today for several bibliographies I'm working on. As of the past hour (approx 1:30 pm EDT) all searches are resulting in the "Borrow Unavailable" message. Meanwhile, no related news could be found on the web. Has the Archive's lending library shut down? Allreet (talk) 18:02, 10 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

The Internet Archive's library has not been shut down.

Please read https://blog.archive.org/2023/08/17/what-the-hachette-v-internet-archive-decision-means-for-our-library/

You say you were "borrowing heavily". You may have hit a borrowing limit. We have always had limits, just like nearly every library.

Please feel free to email info@archive.org (or me directly) with specifics if you want to explore this further.

- Mark Graham mark@archive.org Markjgraham hmb (talk) 18:50, 10 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

[sponsorhistogram-1] "Internet Archive meta manager". Archived from the original on January 27, 2019. Retrieved December 20, 2018.^{[failed verification]}

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 I was "borrowing heavily" today for several bibliographies I'm working on. As of the past hour (approx 1:30 pm EDT) all searches are resulting in the "Borrow Unavailable" message. Meanwhile, no related news could be found on the web. Has the Archive's lending library shut down? [[User:Allreet|Allreet]] ([[User talk:Allreet|talk]]) 18:02, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
+:Hi,
+:The Internet Archive's library has not been shut down.
+:Please read https://blog.archive.org/2023/08/17/what-the-hachette-v-internet-archive-decision-means-for-our-library/
+:You say you were "borrowing heavily".  You may have hit a borrowing limit.  We have always had limits, just like nearly every library.
+:Please feel free to email info@archive.org (or me directly) with specifics if you want to explore this further.
+:- Mark Graham mark@archive.org [[User:Markjgraham hmb|Markjgraham hmb]] ([[User talk:Markjgraham hmb|talk]]) 18:50, 10 September 2023 (UTC)