New Treasures at the Internet Archive - November 2019

Special book discount code & new tools to enjoy music in the Internet Archive's Newsletter

Archive    Donate     Blog     Jobs     Volunteer     November 2019 Browsing the Archive Top 10 Reasons to Love the Internet Archive All year long, the Internet Archive is your personal treasure trove of books, web pages, concerts, films, radio and video games… the gift that keeps on giving! Once a year, we ask you to help sustain us. And best of all, right now we have a 2-to-1 matching gift, so your donations will be tripled! Need more reasons to chip in? Here are 10 of our current favorites. READ MORE Library + Bookseller = More Online Books for all! What happens when the world's leading socially conscious bookseller unites with the Internet's library? We're about to see. Digital Librarian Brewster Kahle and Better World Books CEO Dustin Holland announced this month that Better World Books is joining hands with the Internet Archive. The result? Libraries that donate their books to Better World Books will see many of their volumes digitized and shared online for free, leading to greater impact and literacy around the world! To celebrate the union, Better World Books is offering a special 10% discount code to buy books on their website, good through 2019. FIND DISCOUNT Keeping a Literary Language Alive Ancient texts etched into palm leaves. A new generation increasingly unable to read and write their literary texts. Can technology help to preserve the culture and native language of Bali? Those are the questions that the Internet Archive and the linguists at PanLex are tackling, along with a team of local Balinese. Discover what this diverse team is finding after unlocking these ancient manuscripts. READ MORE New Music Player Unlocks Memory & Meaning Remember the hours you'd while away pouring over album covers and CD booklets? The hidden gems of meaning embedded by the musicians, seemingly just for you? In the era of streaming, that's part of what has been lost. Enter the Internet Archive's new music player! Chock full of new features including high resolution scans of covers and liner notes, our music player will help you discover related songs and richer information. Rock on. LEARN MORE Swim, Spot, Swim The earliest surfing dog on film was long thought to be from 1930, but ahoy! If you venture 3:21 minutes into this 1926 surfing film, you'll find Spot, the earliest documented board-loving pup! Progenitor to a million surfing instagram mutts, Spot is now the first King of the Waves.   Turkey Circa 1772 Wondering how to boil a bird and stuff it? In 1772, you could turn to The Complete English Cook or Prudent Housewife, by Catharine Brooks, who wrote: In cooking Fowl, or Flesh or Fish, Or any nice or Dainty dish, With care peruse this useful Book, I will make you soon a perfect Cook. Articles Worth Reading WASHINGTON POST: What you learned about impeachment hearing depended on what channel you watched WIRED: The Internet Archive is Making Wikipedia More Reliable OPEN CULTURE: The Internet Archive is Digitizing and Preserving Over 100,000 Vinyl Records BOING BOING:  The Internet Archive's Open Library will let you sponsor a book, paying for it to be scanned GIZMODO: Neo-Nazi Web Forum Iron March Has SQL Database Dumped on the Internet Archive SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL: Wikipedia + the Internet Archive offer a new reason to include Wikipedia in student research VENTURE BEAT: GitHub launches Arctic Code Vault to preserve open source software for 1,000 years MSN NEWS: This is how the Trump administration has been quietly erasing LGBT issues   A little bit funds a lot of bytes – Donate today! Share Tweet Forward Copyright © 2019 Internet Archive. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Internet Archive 300 Funston Avenue San Francisco, CA 94118