The real question is: which edition of "Ulysses" did #ChatGPT read? We can only hope it's the 1986 Gabler edition.
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celebrates tech that empowers librarianship. Recently, released a new conversational AI, #ChatGPT.
We asked it how to extract ISBNs from MARC records: It even gave code!
Try for yourself:
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Are you one of the readers who has dozens of books on your reading log and has trouble finding the one you're looking for?
🎉 Thanks to and , now you can use search to find the books on your reading log! 🔍
Learn more:
blog.openlibrary.org/2022/11/23/sco
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This week we launched subtle design improvements to 's main site navigation.
blog.openlibrary.org/2022/11/22/dan
Lots of design research was done under the hood by Dana (one of our 2022 Design Fellows) to make the site as easy to navigate as possible. Thank you Dana!
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A BIG thank you to volunteer 🧑💻 for linking-up ~95,000 more books with lendable editions in !
That's a 2% increase in the total number of books readable from ! 🎉📚🚀
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Tomorrow @ 9am Pacific is Open Library's annual Community Celebration!
Send us a PM if you'd like an invite to the event.
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One of the most surprisingly claims I hear repeated is: "this book is US copyrighted, therefore you need to get the author's permission before lending it".
As explains:
"It's not a violation of copyright to buy a book and lend it out - it is copyright."
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What's going on between #libraries & publishers?
Author @doctorow weighs in on misconceptions about copyright, libraries & ebooks. 
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Open Library is also affected by this outage. There is a team on site investigating a possible issue with a piece of network hardware and we're working to restore full service ASAP. Thank you and apologies for the temporary inconvenience!
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From : "The Internet Archive’s operates with an owning and lending model, like a traditional library. That means big publishers, who are the platform capitalists of print media, want to see it destroyed..." 1/2
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Why the govt is trying to 🛑 PenguinRandomHouse from becoming a monopsony.
"A monopoly refers to a seller that has too much power over consumers; a monopsony has too much power over suppliers. In this case, the government says those suppliers are authors"
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As outlined by , librarians, legal experts, copyright scholars, librarian-lawyers, and the professor who wrote the first white paper on #ControlledDigitalLending have filed amici briefs defending in the publishers lawsuit.
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Good Amici from #Authors: @Auths_Alliance filed an amicus brief "to show it that many authors do support CDL, contrary to the publishers’ argument that authors as a group are against CDL."
authorsalliance.org/2022/07/20/hac
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I think this @washingtonpost headline is a bit wrong: should be "The fight between corporate publishers & librarians tearing book lovers apart"
Many, many authors stand with the @internetarchive in this lawsuit.
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From in the latest : “What libraries do is they buy, preserve and lend…Publishers are saying that you may not buy, you may not preserve and you may not lend except under exactly the circumstances that I tell you.”
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Looking for a way to help the Open Library?
We're seeking 5 volunteers who are new to the website to join us for a short call to help us see how you use the Open Library and what you wish were different about its design.
Volunteer to help here:
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The was created for challenges like this. Proud of our work with to archive #Ukrainian cultural history online. 👇
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Russia invading Ukraine has led to many historic and cultural sites being damaged or destroyed — now there’s an effort underway to preserve Ukraine’s digital cultural legacy.
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The publishers & lobbyists would have you believe their lawsuit is abt hurting poor authors.
But none other than writes "It’s not authors. It’s the publishers. They’re the ones doing this. Go be mad at them"
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I dunno if you are keeping tabs on this Internet Archive lawsuit, but basically… The Internet Archive buys books, digitizes those books, and then allows temporary, copy-protected access to those digital copies to one user at a time per book
They are being sued for this
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Publishers don’t want libraries to have a digital future.
Look no further than this lawsuit to shut down the Library and many other public libraries’ ability to loan digital copies of the millions of physical books they OWN for proof.
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Hey community: do you know authors who support in the lawsuit? Please ask them to weigh in. 👇
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Read more at the Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration: archive.org/details/digita
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In the @InternetArchive there are 700 digitized books abt the Japanese American WWII incarceration--the story of my community & my family. If the publishers win their lawsuit, these books go away. Access to history disappears.
Please don't let this happen: empoweringlibraries.org
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In the there are 700 digitized books abt the Japanese American WWII incarceration--the story of my community & my family. If the publishers win their lawsuit, these books go away. Access to history disappears.
Please don't let this happen: empoweringlibraries.org
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Two years ago at the very beginning of COVID when 99% of libraries & schools were shuttered, that’s when publishers sued the . Today IA asked for summary judgement. This is what was happening in 2020👇
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These teachers relied on #controlleddigitallending to get books to their students during the pandemic. Watch the video to learn more #EmpoweringLibraries #Covid19
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Find the books of Marygrove College now available via & .
83,000 items to be precise: archive.org/details/marygr
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What happens to the books when a library closes? Find out how digital archiving helped preserve the history of a community blog.archive.org/2021/01/27/hea #EmpoweringLibraries
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As a parent, it can be hard to find time to get to the library. No stress - borrow thousands of kids books for free from our online library: archive.org/details/iacl #parenting #EmpoweringLibraries
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It takes a village. The community of volunteer librarians, developers, editors are all working towther to preserve culture for future generations. Thank you!
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Libraries play a key role in preserving culture for future generations. It's crucial for democracy that they can continue to do so in the digital age #empoweringlibraries #archives
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1/4 📢Live from today’s press conference: Legal Director Corynne McSherry addresses journalists #EmpoweringLibraries
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For those following the case "Hachette vs. " where 4 big publishers have sued us over #ControlledDigitalLending, here is a report from a press conference in progress now:
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Press conference update Hospital librarian Benjamin Saracco tells how our digital library helped support frontline medical workers during #Covid19
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LAST 3 HOURS TO MATCH: 's G14 Round is about to end.
🧑⚖️Now's the time to support 's court battle to buy, own, digitize & lend books online. For a few more hours your $1 donation will be matched!
gitcoin.co/grants/5885/in
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From Native artist/author/technologist Amelia Winger-Bearskin , a call to help libraries like ours & one way to do it:
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#lifegoals: travelling the world collecting books. Hernando Colón was living the dream in the 16th century. Come and learn about this extraordinary adventurer: eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-th
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The dream of a library that holds every book in the world, in 1530?
Come hear about Columbus' son and his vision for a universal library:
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Calling all #booklovers! Find out about Renaissance legend Hernando Colón's dream of a universal library at our #booktalk on June 28 #librarians #accesstoknowledge eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-th
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You know you’ve reached some new level of collective consciousness when writers in Hollywood include the in storylines! Thanks michael for noticing.
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Watching S3E2 of @evil and they mentioned the @waybackmachine. When that didn’t work, they switched to the “wayback wayback machine”, an “app of my own creation”, and then the “wayback wayback wayback machine”. Gibberish, of course, but fun nonetheless.
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Do you want to make #juneteenth2022 even more memorable and meaningful? Some great reading is available to borrow from our library 👇
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if you're looking for something to read on this #Juneteenth, there are so many beautiful books of #African #Diaspora #folklore just a click away at the @InternetArchive, all thanks to #ControlledDigitalLending!
here are the books I blogged about this week: lkgbooks.blogspot.com/2022/06/diaspo
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Artist/Technologist thinks back to all the times she turned to the for help.
She says now "the needs our help."
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Calling the Community: we need your support & starting today, even a small donation will be matched up to 300x by Grant. Here's how:
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@Gitcoin Matching Round NOW OPEN: gitcoin.co/grants/ We need our community more than ever!
@InternetArchive has been sued by 4 corporate publishers & the case will be heard this Fall. Help us defend ourselves. At stake: 1.4M digitized books.
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Look who made 's top 10: 😍"We also like the , which is part of the —this portal combines both ebooks that are completely free, & ebooks that you can borrow, library style."📚
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🔝🔟 🎉 We made the "Top 10" places to download free Ebooks!
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💻FOR TRUE GEEKS: That code on the retro screen in the new season of ? Yup, that's the 's source code. These are the little nods that make the nerdy hearts at do flip-flops. 💕💾
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The @internetarchive's Wayback Machine has arrived!
Eagle-eyed @tropix126 noticed a slightly modified section of Wayback Machine source code (“wayback” changed to “codegener”) on the screen in Season 4, Episode 6 “The Dive” (scene starting at 53:27) of @Stranger_Things
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It's warming to see we're not the only ones who go batty for a good book before bed!
thedodo.com/amphtml/daily-
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Advances in tech mean that we can store every book, sound recording, movie, software package, & public webpage ever created. Join & other thought leaders for a discussion of the possibilities & policy needs at , June 4 @ 2pm ET.
🎟️nysoclib.org/events/livestr
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