📣 Librarians! Attending #ALAAC26 this weekend? 📚 Stop by Booth 2130 with our literacy partner, Better Worlds Books 📖, to talk to us and snag a sweet Wayback Machine sticker! See you there!
Revisit "THE BOOTS ON THE WESTERN FRONT" by Thomas Biamonte, an Honorable Mention, Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🏅 An anti-war short film that showcases the horror of modern…
Doctorate in Philosophy Awarded to a Woman for the First Time (1678) Born to a noble Venetian family, Elena Cornaro Piscopia became the first woman to be awarded a doctorate in philosophy. A child pro…
Every American Knows the Declaration of Independence. Almost Nobody Knows the Woman Who Printed It As Baltimore’s postmaster and printer to the Continental Congress, Mary Katharine Goddard produced th…
How reading shapes and enhances our cognitive activity by Stephanie Baum, reviewed by Robert Egan https://phys.org/news/2026-06-cognitive.html Books about Comparative linguistics at PG: https://www.gu…
🏦 Do you want bankers reviewing the websites you visit and deciding what content should come down? In TRANSACTION DENIED, author Rainey Reitman examines financial censorship and the growing power of f…
🧵1/2 🌐🇨🇦 We're excited to announce the installation of Internet Archive Canada's first Canadian web discovery kiosk, hosted by Vancouver Public Library! Visitors can explore 100,000 preserved .ca websi…
🧵1/2 DWeb Camp: Root Systems is almost here! 🏕️ In just two weeks, hundreds of builders, researchers, hackers, artists, and organisers will gather in the forest 🌳 to explore the future of decentralised…
Libraries Not Doing Pride Displays Say They ‘Shouldn’t Be Judged’ Public records show dozens of libraries have self-censored to avoid attracting negative attention. by Claire Woodcock https://www.404m…
10 Must-Know Facts About Edward Hopper Here are 10 fascinating facts you need to know about the famous American painter Edward Hopper. https://www.thecollector.com/edward-hopper-facts/ #art
@gairdeachas Thank you so very much for your relentless and invaluable contribution!
@the_roamer You're very welcome!
The voyages of Ancient Pacific mariners echo in modern space exploration There are many ways to traverse vast cosmic distances—including exploiting natural forces like slopes, winds, currents, or grav…
Standing down the International Catalog of Sources The AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives is narrowing its catalog scope from a global index of physics history sources to just its own holdings, due to …
#OTD in 1819. Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle” is Published By one "Geoffrey Crayon" https://lithub.com/this-week-in-literary-history-washington-irvings-rip-van-winkle-is-published/ Rip Van Winkle…
🧵1/2 Social media is helping rare books find new audiences. 📚📱 Book historian Allie Alvis shares historic books & special collections online, showing how platforms can spark curiosity, encourage learn…
📞🌐💾 Were you an internet… Prodigy? Prodigy began in the mid-1980s as a dial-up online world before the open web existed. It offered a curated, menu-driven experience with forums, messaging, games, and…
🏛️📚 What is Democracy’s Library? The Internet Archive's Democracy’s Library project is a free, fast-growing collection of government publications and records from around the world. 🌎 Its more than 11 m…
When a Photographer Turned His Focus on Social Injustice, It Helped Usher in the First Child Labor Laws Lewis Hine didn’t consider his job as taking pictures; it was “detective work.” Sometimes gainin…
An appreciation: Roland Jackson’s Scientific Advice to the Nineteenth-Century British State by William Thomas https://www.aip.org/history/jackson-scientific-advice Books about Science at PG: https://w…
