#internet-archive

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Fenwick Umpleby - Mass Lowell, Lawler Printing Co. 1910

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is a digital library of millions of books, movies, music, websites and more. Their mission is to provide Universal Access to knowledge. Currently there are 330 million web pages, 20 million books and texts, 4.5 million audio recordings, 4 million videos (including 1.6 million TV news programs), 3 million images and 200,000 software programs.

They began a program to digitize books in 2005. Books published prior to 1923 are available for download and many more “modern” books can be borrowed throught their Open Library site.

The Genealogy collection includes items from the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center, the University of Toronto, University of Illinois Urban-Champaign Library, Brigham Young University, National Library of Scotland, Indianapolis City Directory and Yearbooks Collection, Leo Baeck Institute Archives and the Boston Public Library.

Resources in the collection include:

 * local histories

 * regimental histories

 * books on surname origins

 * photos

 * travel guides

 * parish records

 * census records

 * passengers lists on vessels

  * other historical and biographical documents.

Books from the Allen County Public Library have been digitized for the Library. Currently there are 102,398 items.

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Research at the Internet Archive

The Internet Archive (https://archive.org) has a huge - and growing - collection of digitized resources related to WWI. You will need to create an account, but it costs you nothing to join. Take advantage of the broad range of books, records and other ephemera available in the archive.

To find publications related to WWI, choose the American Libraries section and then use the search box in the left sidebar and the Topics & Subjects section further down to refine your search.

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Genealogy Collection At Internet Archive

The Internet Archive’s genealogy collection supports an ever-expanding collection of genealogy resources. Items in this collection includes:

The Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana

Robarts Library at the University of Toronto

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Library

Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah

The National Library of Scotland

Indianapolis City Directory and Yearbooks Collection from the Indianapolis City Library

Resources include books on surname origins, vital statistics, parish records, census records, passenger lists of vessels, and other historical and biographical documents.

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Genealogy Collection at the Internet Archive

The Internet Archive’s genealogy collection supports an ever-expanding collection of genealogy resources. Items in this collection includes:


The Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana

Robarts Library at the University of Toronto

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Library

Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah

The National Library of Scotland

Indianapolis City Directory and Yearbooks Collection from the Indianapolis City Library

Resources include books on surname origins, vital statistics, parish records, census records, passenger lists of vessels, and other historical and biographical documents.

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The Evolving Internet Archive

The new version of the archive.org site has been evolving over the past 6 months in response to the feedback we’ve received from thousands of our awesome users.

If you haven’t been following along, you can review a little bit of the journey through these blog posts:

Building Libraries Together: New Tools for a New Direction (10/28/14)

Redesigning Archive.org (11/5/2014)

What’s New with V2 (2/12/2015)

Why change the site at all?  The posts above help answer that, but in brief:

35% of our ~3 million daily users are on mobile/tablet devices, and the classic site is not easy to use on small formats.

The new tools we want to offer our users would be difficult to implement in the old site architecture.

The classic site was built a long time ago, using methods that are outdated.  Finding programmers who have the skills to work in that environment is becoming increasingly difficult, and the ramp up time for new employees is painful.  The redesign has given us an opportunity to start pulling the front end (what you see) apart from the back end, so they can evolve separately.

Blue represents people in classic archive.org (v1), red represents people in the new version (v2)

Currently about 85% of archive.org users are in the new version. Over the next few weeks we will be asking the remaining 15% to try it out. For the time being, users will be able to exit the new archive.org and return to the “classic” version — but the classic will not always be available or supported, so please give the new version a try and give us feedback if there are things on the site that you don’t like, can’t find, or that seem like bugs.  (When you click “exit” you will have an opportunity to give us feedback.)

We have made several video tours that introduce you to the new site. I recommend starting with the site tour.

View it and the rest of this post at blog.archive.org.

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The IA Client – The Swiss Army Knife of Internet Archive

Started in 2012 and overseen primarily by Archive employee Jake Johnson, the internetarchive client (which is generally just called “ia”) is both a set of libraries and a command-line program for doing a wide range of activities and actions with the archive without having to come in through the website. There’s a range of advantages and differences from using the web interface, mostly that it can be called as a command-line request, and return the results (success, failure, other information) right into your scripts. It is coded to be in lock-step with our APIs and system, and does its best to respect capacity as well as return informative messages about success or errors.

via http://blog.archive.org/2019/06/05/the-ia-client-the-swiss-army-knife-of-internet-archive/