Antoine
@ant.bsky.social
📚 Internet Archive.org & @EOTArchive.org & FDLP 🏛️ We build tools so the past and future can meet.
I love seeing the fun things that creative people build on #Bluesky like this flag mashup bot
Special edition
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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December 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I love seeing the fun things that creative people build on #Bluesky like this flag mashup bot
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A preview of coming attractions! In addition to our January 1 countdown, look out for our Public Domain Day celebration, in person and virtually!
When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like:
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
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💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
December 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM
A preview of coming attractions! In addition to our January 1 countdown, look out for our Public Domain Day celebration, in person and virtually!
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A group of leading authors are calling for every newborn baby in the UK to be signed up for a library card automatically at birth. #libraries #reading
Give all newborn babies library card automatically, top authors urge
Sir Philip Pullman and Richard Osman are among writers to back the proposal to boost literacy.
www.bbc.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:09 AM
A group of leading authors are calling for every newborn baby in the UK to be signed up for a library card automatically at birth. #libraries #reading
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This is the most beautiful Christmas story.
Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
This is the most beautiful Christmas story.
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I am on the committee for the SAA Brenda S. Banks Travel Award given annually to archivists of color who would like to become active in SAA. It provides generous travel support and a years membership in SAA.
Please share in your networks and with those that might be our next recipient!
Please share in your networks and with those that might be our next recipient!
Brenda S. Banks Travel Award | Society of American Archivists
Society of American Archivists
www2.archivists.org
December 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I am on the committee for the SAA Brenda S. Banks Travel Award given annually to archivists of color who would like to become active in SAA. It provides generous travel support and a years membership in SAA.
Please share in your networks and with those that might be our next recipient!
Please share in your networks and with those that might be our next recipient!
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🧵1️⃣ How do you visualize & explore millions of archived web pages?
@InternetArchive.EU partnered with software engineers & the Internet Archive to make a navigable mosaic you can explore with a joystick, buttons, or voice.
Learn more ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2025/12/16/f...
@InternetArchive.EU partnered with software engineers & the Internet Archive to make a navigable mosaic you can explore with a joystick, buttons, or voice.
Learn more ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2025/12/16/f...
December 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🧵1️⃣ How do you visualize & explore millions of archived web pages?
@InternetArchive.EU partnered with software engineers & the Internet Archive to make a navigable mosaic you can explore with a joystick, buttons, or voice.
Learn more ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2025/12/16/f...
@InternetArchive.EU partnered with software engineers & the Internet Archive to make a navigable mosaic you can explore with a joystick, buttons, or voice.
Learn more ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2025/12/16/f...
These new library kiosks are a fun visual way to explore web collections!
Visitors to the National Library of the Netherlands used a physical joystick and buttons to explore a variety of webpages in a game-like experience.
blog.archive.org/2025/12/16/f...
Thank you @kb.nl & @internetarchive.eu
Visitors to the National Library of the Netherlands used a physical joystick and buttons to explore a variety of webpages in a game-like experience.
blog.archive.org/2025/12/16/f...
Thank you @kb.nl & @internetarchive.eu
Fun Library Kiosk and Novel Web-based Display of Millions of Web Pages | Internet Archive Blogs
blog.archive.org
December 18, 2025 at 12:36 AM
These new library kiosks are a fun visual way to explore web collections!
Visitors to the National Library of the Netherlands used a physical joystick and buttons to explore a variety of webpages in a game-like experience.
blog.archive.org/2025/12/16/f...
Thank you @kb.nl & @internetarchive.eu
Visitors to the National Library of the Netherlands used a physical joystick and buttons to explore a variety of webpages in a game-like experience.
blog.archive.org/2025/12/16/f...
Thank you @kb.nl & @internetarchive.eu
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An example of Democracy's Library in action, thanks to the Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS) UC Berkeley. Over 6,000 municipal documents digitized and available in @archive.org - "essential sources for understanding California’s civic past and present."
igs.berkeley.edu/news/library...
igs.berkeley.edu/news/library...
The Library Corner - Fall 2025 Recap Edition | Institute of Governmental Studies
igs.berkeley.edu
December 16, 2025 at 10:29 PM
An example of Democracy's Library in action, thanks to the Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS) UC Berkeley. Over 6,000 municipal documents digitized and available in @archive.org - "essential sources for understanding California’s civic past and present."
igs.berkeley.edu/news/library...
igs.berkeley.edu/news/library...
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🎬 The 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest is on!
Celebrate Public Domain Day by remixing the past—using at least one item entering the #publicdomain on Jan 1, 2026, in your 2–3 minute film submission.
📅 Deadline: Jan. 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details: blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...
Celebrate Public Domain Day by remixing the past—using at least one item entering the #publicdomain on Jan 1, 2026, in your 2–3 minute film submission.
📅 Deadline: Jan. 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details: blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...
December 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
🎬 The 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest is on!
Celebrate Public Domain Day by remixing the past—using at least one item entering the #publicdomain on Jan 1, 2026, in your 2–3 minute film submission.
📅 Deadline: Jan. 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details: blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...
Celebrate Public Domain Day by remixing the past—using at least one item entering the #publicdomain on Jan 1, 2026, in your 2–3 minute film submission.
📅 Deadline: Jan. 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details: blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...
Free Christmas gift: Get a National Library of Ireland card @nlireland.bsky.social stick the extra photos to holiday cards for your fam
December 16, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Free Christmas gift: Get a National Library of Ireland card @nlireland.bsky.social stick the extra photos to holiday cards for your fam
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The most unique bookshop I've been in yet. Boekhandel Dominicanen is in a 13th century Dominican Church in Maastricht, and it is beautiful. Good range of books too! 📚 #books #bookshop #photography #architecture #RepurposedBuildings
October 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The most unique bookshop I've been in yet. Boekhandel Dominicanen is in a 13th century Dominican Church in Maastricht, and it is beautiful. Good range of books too! 📚 #books #bookshop #photography #architecture #RepurposedBuildings
Meet Merrilee the new Internet Archive 🏛️ Director of Democracy’s Library.
She’s here on Bluesky: @merrileeiam.bsky.social
She’s here on Bluesky: @merrileeiam.bsky.social
New job alert! Thank you @archive.org @brewster.kahle.org and @chrisfreeland.com for this nice write up!
blog.archive.org/2025/11/18/m...
blog.archive.org/2025/11/18/m...
Meet Merrilee Proffitt, Director of Democracy’s Library US | Internet Archive Blogs
blog.archive.org
December 7, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Meet Merrilee the new Internet Archive 🏛️ Director of Democracy’s Library.
She’s here on Bluesky: @merrileeiam.bsky.social
She’s here on Bluesky: @merrileeiam.bsky.social
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!!! Three more organisations have joined the global #OurFutureMemory movement!
* @iua-official.bsky.social Librarians’ Group (IUALG)
* Boston Library Consortium
* @libraryfutures.bsky.social
🔗 Full announcement: www.internetarchive.eu/2025/11/21/t...
🔗 Promote the campaign: ourfuturememory.org
* @iua-official.bsky.social Librarians’ Group (IUALG)
* Boston Library Consortium
* @libraryfutures.bsky.social
🔗 Full announcement: www.internetarchive.eu/2025/11/21/t...
🔗 Promote the campaign: ourfuturememory.org
November 21, 2025 at 10:05 AM
!!! Three more organisations have joined the global #OurFutureMemory movement!
* @iua-official.bsky.social Librarians’ Group (IUALG)
* Boston Library Consortium
* @libraryfutures.bsky.social
🔗 Full announcement: www.internetarchive.eu/2025/11/21/t...
🔗 Promote the campaign: ourfuturememory.org
* @iua-official.bsky.social Librarians’ Group (IUALG)
* Boston Library Consortium
* @libraryfutures.bsky.social
🔗 Full announcement: www.internetarchive.eu/2025/11/21/t...
🔗 Promote the campaign: ourfuturememory.org
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UCD Library is very pleased to see that @iua-official.bsky.social has signed this 'Statement on the Four Digital Rights of Memory Institutions'.
@ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdarchives.bsky.social @ucddigitallibrary.bsky.social @bealoideasucd.bsky.social
@ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdarchives.bsky.social @ucddigitallibrary.bsky.social @bealoideasucd.bsky.social
!!! Three more organisations have joined the global #OurFutureMemory movement!
* @iua-official.bsky.social Librarians’ Group (IUALG)
* Boston Library Consortium
* @libraryfutures.bsky.social
🔗 Full announcement: www.internetarchive.eu/2025/11/21/t...
🔗 Promote the campaign: ourfuturememory.org
* @iua-official.bsky.social Librarians’ Group (IUALG)
* Boston Library Consortium
* @libraryfutures.bsky.social
🔗 Full announcement: www.internetarchive.eu/2025/11/21/t...
🔗 Promote the campaign: ourfuturememory.org
November 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
UCD Library is very pleased to see that @iua-official.bsky.social has signed this 'Statement on the Four Digital Rights of Memory Institutions'.
@ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdarchives.bsky.social @ucddigitallibrary.bsky.social @bealoideasucd.bsky.social
@ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdarchives.bsky.social @ucddigitallibrary.bsky.social @bealoideasucd.bsky.social
Vancouver meetup coming up on Dec 18th 2025 for librarians, archivists, and friends of Internet Archive Canada!
Follow @internetarchiveca.bsky.social for more information and register at luma.com/csng5hm9
Follow @internetarchiveca.bsky.social for more information and register at luma.com/csng5hm9
Internet Archive Canada December Community Gathering · Luma
Another in a series of monthly after-work gatherings at Internet Archive Canada -- a mission-driven digital library for the web and beyond. Hosted by the…
luma.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Vancouver meetup coming up on Dec 18th 2025 for librarians, archivists, and friends of Internet Archive Canada!
Follow @internetarchiveca.bsky.social for more information and register at luma.com/csng5hm9
Follow @internetarchiveca.bsky.social for more information and register at luma.com/csng5hm9
Today starting in a couple hours:
I'm looking forward to this roundtable next Wednesday (December 3) on "Colonial Libraries and Anticolonial Resistance."
There's a fantastic lineup, including @cindyanguyen.bsky.social, who will be discussing her new book!
RSVP to get the Zoom link: calma.ischool.uw.edu/uw-event/col...
#libsky
There's a fantastic lineup, including @cindyanguyen.bsky.social, who will be discussing her new book!
RSVP to get the Zoom link: calma.ischool.uw.edu/uw-event/col...
#libsky
December 3, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Today starting in a couple hours:
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Last week a CDC webpage about vaccine safety was edited.
Using the "Changes" feature of the Wayback Machine we can see a "before and after" comparison:
web.archive.org/web/diff/202...
The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is the change control system the web never had.
Using the "Changes" feature of the Wayback Machine we can see a "before and after" comparison:
web.archive.org/web/diff/202...
The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is the change control system the web never had.
November 28, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Last week a CDC webpage about vaccine safety was edited.
Using the "Changes" feature of the Wayback Machine we can see a "before and after" comparison:
web.archive.org/web/diff/202...
The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is the change control system the web never had.
Using the "Changes" feature of the Wayback Machine we can see a "before and after" comparison:
web.archive.org/web/diff/202...
The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is the change control system the web never had.
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Please Donate to the Internet Archive. $25 helps.... a lot.
Useful to Journalists,
Useful to Students,
Useful to more than 2 million people a day.
Collections growing at 150TBytes/day
@internetarchive
archive.org/donate
www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/b...
Useful to Journalists,
Useful to Students,
Useful to more than 2 million people a day.
Collections growing at 150TBytes/day
@internetarchive
archive.org/donate
www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/b...
November 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Please Donate to the Internet Archive. $25 helps.... a lot.
Useful to Journalists,
Useful to Students,
Useful to more than 2 million people a day.
Collections growing at 150TBytes/day
@internetarchive
archive.org/donate
www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/b...
Useful to Journalists,
Useful to Students,
Useful to more than 2 million people a day.
Collections growing at 150TBytes/day
@internetarchive
archive.org/donate
www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/b...
When Sir Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web, he introduced simple numeric codes to describe what was happening with each request. You might be familiar with:
200 “OK”
404 “Not Found”
Among those early web codes was 402, “Payment Required”
200 “OK”
404 “Not Found”
Among those early web codes was 402, “Payment Required”
November 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
When Sir Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web, he introduced simple numeric codes to describe what was happening with each request. You might be familiar with:
200 “OK”
404 “Not Found”
Among those early web codes was 402, “Payment Required”
200 “OK”
404 “Not Found”
Among those early web codes was 402, “Payment Required”
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Welcome to our three-part series on book rebinding, where Library of Congress advanced book conservation interns Brittany and Devon will take you through all the steps of rebinding a book from the Library's Thomas Jefferson Library Collection. Stay tuned for parts two and three!
November 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Welcome to our three-part series on book rebinding, where Library of Congress advanced book conservation interns Brittany and Devon will take you through all the steps of rebinding a book from the Library's Thomas Jefferson Library Collection. Stay tuned for parts two and three!
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We are back. Our provider found and repaired a fiber issue last night and traffic has returned. We are sorry for the disruption.
The Wayback Machine, openlibrary.org, and some other archive.org functions are offline because some network gear has failed.
We apologize and are working on it. More as it happens.
We apologize and are working on it. More as it happens.
November 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
We are back. Our provider found and repaired a fiber issue last night and traffic has returned. We are sorry for the disruption.
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Meet Merrilee Proffitt, Director of Democracy’s Library US | Internet Archive Blogs https://blog.archive.org/2025/11/18/meet-merrilee-proffitt-director-of-democracys-library-us/
Meet Merrilee Proffitt, Director of Democracy’s Library US
Democracies depend on an informed and engaged citizenry — and in the digital age, that means equitable, reliable access to public information online. To help make this vision a reality, […]
blog.archive.org
November 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Meet Merrilee Proffitt, Director of Democracy’s Library US | Internet Archive Blogs https://blog.archive.org/2025/11/18/meet-merrilee-proffitt-director-of-democracys-library-us/
If you'd like an informative and interesting conversation to enjoy try "Inside Harvard’s Data.gov Archive – A Conversation with Jack Cushman"
@jed.co interviewing Jack Cushman @harvardlil.bsky.social about Data.gov archiving on @source.coop
Now live www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYMb...
@jed.co interviewing Jack Cushman @harvardlil.bsky.social about Data.gov archiving on @source.coop
Now live www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYMb...
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:20 PM
If you'd like an informative and interesting conversation to enjoy try "Inside Harvard’s Data.gov Archive – A Conversation with Jack Cushman"
@jed.co interviewing Jack Cushman @harvardlil.bsky.social about Data.gov archiving on @source.coop
Now live www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYMb...
@jed.co interviewing Jack Cushman @harvardlil.bsky.social about Data.gov archiving on @source.coop
Now live www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYMb...
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Inside the Internet Archive, home of the Wayback Machine as they save one trillion web pages and prepare themselves for the future: "Libraries have always been under attack, now more than during my lifetime, but let's go and live up to the moment." www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/t...
Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are stored | CNN Business
The Internet Archive is preserving the web one page at a time, a job that’s more critical than ever as the internet evolves in the age of AI.
www.cnn.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Inside the Internet Archive, home of the Wayback Machine as they save one trillion web pages and prepare themselves for the future: "Libraries have always been under attack, now more than during my lifetime, but let's go and live up to the moment." www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/t...