Internet Archive Thanks Friends of SF Public Library For Donating 130,000 Books

From a Blog Post By Brewster Kahle:

130,000 books, records, and videos were donated and then cataloged, de-duplicated, and readied for scanning and long term preservation in 2 days.   Thank you to the Friends of SFPL for our largest public donation ever.   With this, we believe we are ready to handle any size donation.   Please think of us as a good home for your library or collection or extras.

Fast Facts About a Recent IA Event:

• 20 volunteers (thank you!)
• 20 staff members
• 130,000 books, records, videos
• we cataloged 40,000 of them over the 2 days, and of those 20,000 were ones we did not have.   90,000 to go.
• we will preserve the originals for scanning and for the long term in our Physical Archive
• the duplicates will go to other worthy causes.
• and it was a blast.

Learn More and Take a Look at Cool Time Lapse Video
Inside the new Internet Archive Physical Archive in Richmond, CA.

Filed under: Digital Preservation, Libraries, Preservation, Public Libraries, Publishing