[Reposted from the main Internet Archive blog.]
Everyone is welcome to the open-house and launch of the new Physical Archive of the Internet Archive in Richmond, California on Sunday June 5th from 4-8pm.
After 2 years of prototyping and testing a new design for sustainable long-term preservation of physical books records and movies, we are starting with over 300,000 books and gearing up for millions.
Wonderful stuff! The Library of Congress has just released more than 10,000 digitized 78s from the Victor Talking Machine Company as a National Jukebox. The recordings are lovely and crackly, as if you’re listening on a gramaphone.
So awesome. That’s 1983 in Ohio, folks.
Wishing you and yours a very happy 2011, and hoping you enjoyed your holidays!
I wanted to take a moment to show you some of the fantastic Lists we’ve noticed over the last few weeks since the new feature launched.