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It’s Aaron Swartz Day – Here’s an Open Library status report

Posted on November 1, 2015 by Jessamyn West

Next week is the third annual Aaron Swartz Day (2013, 2014), a celebration and Hackathon which takes place at the Internet Archive on November 7th. Please consider joining us. More information about this year’s events can be found here. We have a lot of good news on our end.

Image from page 323 of "The bicycling world" (1881)

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Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Community | 1 Reply

Digital PML uses BookReader to enhance access to local collections

Posted on February 14, 2015 by Jessamyn West

“We’re writing to let you know that we are proud and grateful users of the Internet Archive BookReader software on our new repository of digitized materials, Digital PML”

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So great! For other institutions that would like to use the BookReader can read through this documentation to help you get started.

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Open Library heads to the stars

Posted on January 9, 2015 by Jessamyn West

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We are excited to announce that the Open Library metadata, pointing to the growing collection of content housed by Internet Archive, has been selected for inclusion in the core archive of Outernet. If you are not familiar with Outernet, they’re calling themselves Humanity’s Public Library and they want to increase access to information for people around the world. Read more here (they’ve got a funding thing happening as well). In their own words…

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Posted in Data | Tagged features, metadata, outernet | 1 Reply

Open Library Scheduled Hardware Maintenance

Posted on December 24, 2014 by anand

Open Library will be down for 3 hours starting from Dec 24, 10:00PM SF Time (PST, UTC/GMT -8 hours) due to a scheduled hardware maintenance.

We’ll post updates here and on @openlibrary twitter.

Thank you for your cooperation.

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Open Library Scheduled Hardware Maintenance

Posted on November 20, 2014 by Jessamyn West
Motor Analyzer

Image from Automobile maintenance by Ray F. Kuns

Open Library will be down from 4:30PM to approximately 5:00PM (PST, UTC/GMT -7 hours) on Thursday November 20, 2014 due to scheduled hardware maintenance. We’ll post updates here and on @openlibrary twitter. Thank you for your cooperation.

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