Digital Preservation Archives
Free Law Project is Scanning America’s Case Law; Goal is to Scan 2.5 Million Pages by the Fall
From a FLP Announcement: Since our founding, Free Law Project has worked tirelessly to create a complete database of every American legal decision ever written. In 2024, we announced that we added historical case law digitized by Harvard Law Library to CourtListener. This made our platform one of the most comprehensive and transparent sources of case […]
Video: RLUK 2026 Keynote by Dr. Carla Hayden
From RLUK (via YouTube): Dr Carla Hayden in conversation with Jane Harvell, Director of Library Culture and Heritage and University Librarian at the University of Sussex and RLUK Chair. Carla Hayden was sworn in as the 14th Librarian of Congress on September 14, 2016. Dr. Hayden, the first woman and the first African American to […]
A New Issue (Vol. 45 No. 1; 2026) of Information Technology and Libraries (ITAL) is Now Available Online
Here’s the Complete Table of Contents + Links to Articles Editorials Letter from the Editors Kenneth J. Varnum; Joanna DiPasquale [PDF] From the Field Librarian Leadership in the Age of AI Jeremiah Rood [PDF] ITAL & Refusal as Instruction: Equipping Patrons to Resist AI, Data Brokers, Big Tech, & More Hannah Cyrus [PDF] Articles Navigating […]
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Final Report Available: Five University Libraries (UC Davis, Cornell, Ohio State, University of Michigan, and Rutgers) Collaborate on Mass Book Digitization Pilot Project
From a UC Davis Library Post: During 2023-2025, UC Davis, Cornell University, Ohio State University, University of Michigan, and Rutgers University coordinated to contribute scholarly content in two topic areas to the Google Books project. This content is then contributed to the HathiTrust Digital Library. The two topics, bees & insect pollinators and Puerto Rico, met a number […]
Internet Archive Founder Brewster Kahle Receives 2026 Fellow Award From Computer History Museum For Lifetime Achievements in Computing
Congratulations Brewster! Brewster is one of several recipients 2026 Fellow Award honorees announced yesterday. Here’s the full text of the Computer History Museum release. Annual award program recognizes honorees for significant contributions to the foundations of mobile computing, digital preservation, and open access to knowledge MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – January 29, 2026 – The Computer History Museum (CHM), the leading institution decoding […]
Washington Post: “Inside an AI Start-Up’s Plan to Scan and Dispose of Millions of Books”
From the Article: In early 2024, executives at artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic ramped up an ambitious project they sought to keep quiet. “Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world,” an internal planning document unsealed in legal filings last week said. “We don’t want it to be known that […]
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Harvard Law School Library Releases First Complete Set of Digitized Nuremberg Trials Records
From Harvard Law School Beginning today, the Harvard Law School Library is making available online the first complete, fully searchable, digitized collection of official evidentiary documents and trial transcripts in English from all 13 Nuremberg Trials, at https://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/. On the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the first trial on November 20, 1945, researchers, scholars, […]
Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Goes Live on TIND ILS for Print Archives Preservation Registry (PAPR)
From a TIND Release: The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) has launched its new Print Archives Preservation Registry (PAPR) on the TIND ILS platform, completing the second of three TIND systems now in production at CRL. The new PAPR serves as a modern, hosted data lake, replacing CRL’s locally built infrastructure with a scalable environment for […]
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Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) Releases New Version of Global ‘Bit List’ of Endangered Digital Materials
From a DPC Post: Across every sector – government, culture, industry, academia, media, and community – digital materials are at-risk of extinction. On World Digital Preservation Day 2025, the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has published a new version of the Global ‘Bit List’ of Endangered Digital Materials, which reveals the urgent need for coordinated action to […]
Milestones: Internet Archive Celebrates One Trillion Web Pages Preserved
Ed. Note: infoDOCKET would like to take a moment to congratulate the Internet Archive on this monumental and important achievement. In a word, Wow! The vision and efforts (24x7x365) of Brewster Kahle, Mark Graham, and the ENTIRE IA team cannot be understated. The Wayback Machine is and will continue to be an essential research resource […]
