Internet Archive — MacArthur Foundation

lterrat's bookmarks 2017-03-18

Summary:

"The Internet Archive will expand libraries’ ability to deliver on their role as great equalizers, providing access to books and other resources to those who might not otherwise be able to afford them, regardless of geography.

The Internet Archive will enable libraries to unlock their analog collections for a new generation of learners, enabling free, long-term, public access to knowledge. The project will curate, digitize, and make available in digital form four million books to any library that owns the physical book.

The Internet Archive will start with the books most widely held and used in libraries and classrooms. The scale of the project will reduce digitization costs by 50 percent or more. The Internet Archive has prototyped this model for more than six years, digitizing 540,000 modern books originating from 100 partners and lending them to the public in a process that mirrors the way libraries traditionally lend physical books."

Link:

https://www.macfound.org/press/semifinalist-profile/internet-archive/

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Date tagged:

03/18/2017, 21:21

Date published:

03/18/2017, 17:21