DARTMOUTH – Chelsea Fernandes is the new librarian archivist for UMass Dartmouth’s Ferreira Mendes Portuguese American Archives and the Luso-Afro-Brazilian Archives Collections. Fernandes, who brings ...

Karen Livsey of Fenton History Center has retired after 30 years of service. Starting out as a volunteer in 1986, librarian, archivist and researcher Karen Livsey has left her mark at the Fenton ...

A compilation of PW's coverage of Hachette v. Internet Archive, the closely watched copyright case over the scanning and lending of print library books, with the most ...

The DSA Project Archivist is live and on RIT's job site. Here is the link: https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/home/HomeWithPreLoad?partnerid=25483&siteid=5289 ...

A lesson I learned early in life: never piss off a librarian. Apparently District Court Judge John G. Koetl skipped out on a formative traumatic-shushing experience, because his recent ruling against ...

Denise Rosemary Nicholson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...

Carlos Pelley has a ready answer to the wide range of questions he gets in his new role with Yakima Valley Libraries. “We have a book here,” Pelley says before heading into the Northwest Reading Room ...

Brewster Kahle at the Internet Archive offices in San Francisco, 2010. (Beatrice Murch / CC BY 2.0) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional ...

Citing a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by publishers, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle announced this week that the IA’s National Emergency Library initiative will cease operating on ...

The lawsuit against Controlled Digital Lending is about giving corporations—rather than readers, buyers, borrowers, or authors—control over content. Signage for Hachette Book Group is displayed at ...

Internet Archive has made 1.4 million books available free online, which some say hurts writers and advances a harmful “copyright ideology.” By Alexandra Alter It was initially presented as a rare and ...

When I started the Internet Archive 25 years ago, I focused our non-profit library on digital collections: preserving web pages, archiving television news, and digitizing books. The Internet Archive ...