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Internet Archive 👀 Watch history being preserved, live. At the Internet Archive, government documents and other historical materials are being digitized in real time. 📜➡️💻 No time machine required. ⏳ Just microfiche. 🔍 Tune in and watch preservation happen. 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbQp... #ToolsYouCanUse
Internet Archive 👻 Spooky season continues at the Internet Archive! Today’s tricky treat: HÄXAN, the 1922 silent film about witchcraft, superstition and the persecution of those accused of practicing it. More Spooky Stuff here ⤵️ archive.org/details/@ias... 🧵
Buckinghamshire Archives If you’ve ever wondered what our jobs involve, we’re running two free online talks that introduce you to the world of archives! Come along and find out how archives began, and learn about some of the strangest parts of our collection. Book your free space by heading to histfestbucks.co.uk
Buddhas in the West Material Archive In 1901, photographer Herbert Ponting toured Japan for Philadelphia publisher Carlton Graves, capturing intimate scenes of rural life and religious practice. This curious roadside shrine was sold to American viewers as a “Typical little country shrine.” 🧵 🗃️ 📜 #Japan
Internet Archive 📚 See incorrect book information online? You can help fix it. ✏️ Open Library is a collaborative catalog. Volunteers can improve records, add information, correct metadata, and create records for unrepresented books. Help make the catalog better. openlibrary.org
Internet Archive Public records help us understand how government works. 🏛️ At ALA Round Tables on Oct 26, Merrilee Proffitt & Kelly Doyle Kim will discuss Democracy’s Library and ATLAS during “Saving Democracy, One Public Record at a Time.” Learn more 👉 games.ala.org/everything-i... Details & Livestream links👇🧵
Internet Archive What can we accomplish when people working to preserve government information come together? A new report from the Internet Archive captures what 120 participants shared, learned, and began building together. 🤝 blog.archive.org/2026/10/06/w... 🧵
Derbyshire Record Office Yes, these highly decorated trinkets are real eggs. You could buy one of these at the Bakewell Show in the 1980s. Or maybe it would inspire you to have a go yourself, though you’d definitely need a delicate touch. #PhotoFriday #WorldEggDay #1980s
Bodleian Libraries #BodleianReaders: Looking for a little calm this Michaelmas term? The @radcliffescilib.bsky.social is offering free wellbeing activities including: 🍵 free hot drinks 👷 LEGO Lunches 🎲 board games 🐕 therapy dogs Find out more: https://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/science/2026/09/30/mt-wellbeing/
Buckinghamshire Archives Our popular archive tours will be running once again as part of Buckinghamshire History Festival! This will be the last chance to see behind the scenes of our current archive before we move, and places are already going fast. Head to histfestbucks.co.uk to secure your free ticket!
Internet Archive What if you could take a work of art, remix it, study it, share it, or build something new from it? You can. Public-domain works belong to everyone to be: 🛠️ Reused 🔀 Remixed ❤️ Enjoyed 🧠 Reimagined So go find something. Then make something new. Free to (re)use. blog.archive.org/2026/01/01/w...
Internet Archive ❤️📖 Only a few weeks left to donate to “For the Love of Books.” 📖 ❤️ By donating to the Internet Archive, you support us and Better World Books in the fight to preserve literacy. Pledge Support Today: donate.archive.org/campaign/838...
Internet Archive Being watched all the time can make growing up feel like a performance. 📱 On the Future Knowledge #podcast, Alexis Durante-Tierney and Helen Vogelsong-Donahue discuss the freedom to experiment, change, and have something that's just your own. futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/mas... 🧵
Internet Archive Find the Internet Archive at the UNIQLO Street Festival in San Francisco this Friday. Come learn about our work, grab a Wayback Machine sticker, and say hello. 📍 801 Market St. 📅 Friday, October 9 ⏰ 11 AM–6 PM 🎟️ Free & family-friendly More info 👉 uniqlo.streetfest.us #WaybackMachine
Bodleian Libraries Starting at the University of Oxford? 📚 Let us introduce ourselves…
Internet Archive 📖 Papiamento is the native language of Aruba, Bonaire, & Curaçao, but smaller languages can disappear online as English & Spanish dominate. 📚 Read Peter Scholing's essay THE WIND-BLOWN LANGUAGE: PAPIAMENTO in VANISHING CULTURE, FREE: archive.org/details/vani... 🧵
Internet Archive WEBINAR TOMORROW! 🌐 Web archives preserve a record of the online world, but also gaps & disappearances. CARTA Presents: "DIGITAL GHOSTS," visualising web archive fragility. Dr. Andrea Kocsis shares works on link decay & vanishing music. 📅 Weds. Oct. 7 🕗 8 AM PT 🎟️ us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) can't stop thinking about our latest Google review
Bodleian Libraries Have you heard of a medieval black knight from the Arthurian world? Meet Moriaen, the protagonist from a Dutch chivalric romance by the same name, researched by Georgie Anderson, a PhD candidate from the University of Kent.
Internet Archive 🧅🌐 The Onion has been making the news absurd for decades. Founded as a college newspaper in 1988, it launched online in 1996, bringing its ridiculous headlines, stories & snark to the web. 30 years later, it’s still going strong. Explore web history ➡️ web.archive.org 🧵
Internet Archive 🏆 Celebrating the champions of local news preservation! The Internet Archive will honor the Poynter Institute and Investigative Reporters and Editors with its 2026 Hero Award for preserving local news online. Read more 👉 blog.archive.org 🧵
Internet Archive 🏛️ Government information belongs to everyone. Government documents help us understand society, investigate the past, and participate in democracy. 📚 Democracy's Library brings government publications together so they're easier to discover. Start with the record. 👇 archive.org/details/demo... 🧵