As the COVID-19 pandemic caused public institutions, including libraries, to shut down, the Internet Archive (IA) website jumped into the breach. On March 24, 2020, it launched the National Emergency ...

Meghan is an associate editor with EdTech. She enjoys coffee, cats and science fiction TV. For students attending a university in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the experience was vastly different ...

The modern internet didn’t happen by accident. It took decades of work to turn what once was an obscure network used by a small number of academics into a global phenomenon reaching about half the ...

The Internet Archive has become an official U.S. federal depository library, providing online users with access to archived congressional bills, laws, regulations, presidential documents, and other ...

As Americans coped with lockdowns and isolation in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Internet Archive—a platform devoted to preserving digital history—hit on a novel way to help people stay ...

A federal judge has ruled in favor of a group of book publishers who sued the nonprofit Internet Archive in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic for scanning and lending digital copies of ...

Over 170 years of local history is now within a few clicks for anyone at any time. The Yuba County Library’s Digital Reel database is now available online for free. The database went live Monday ...

When the internet goes down due to blackouts or natural disasters, there's a small bit of kit that lets you have access to ...

The FBI on Friday seized the internet domains of the digital database Z-Library, which lets users illegally download pirated books and academic papers. (For insights on emerging themes at the ...

It could soon be harder for students to access the internet on school buses and for the public to borrow mobile internet hotspots from libraries. In a Sept. 23 letter, a coalition of school and ...