Advances in computing and communications mean that we can cost-effectively store every book, sound recording, movie, software package, and public web page ever created, and provide access to these collections via the Internet to students and adults all over the world. By mostly using existing institutions and funding sources, we can build this as well as compensate authors within the current worldwide library budget. Technological advances, for the first time since the loss of the Library of Alexandria, may allow us to collect all published knowledge in a similar way. But now we can take the original goal another step further to make all the published works of humankind accessible to everyone, no matter where they are in the world. Thomas Jefferson’s statement that "All that is necessary for a student is access to a library" may be an exaggeration, but access to information is a key ingredient to education and an open society. Will we allow ourselves to re-invent our concept of libraries to expand and to use the new technologies? This is fundamentally a societal and policy issue. These issues are reflected in our governments’ spending priorities, and in law. A passionate advocate for public Internet access and a successful entrepreneur, Brewster Kahle has spent his career intent on a singular focus: Universal Access to All Knowledge. Brewster graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with a degree in artificial intelligence. In 1996 he started the Internet Archive, which is now one of the largest digital libraries in the world.
2. Universal Access to All Knowledge @brewster_kahle 3. Internet
Archive: Non-Profit Library 4. Free to All Free to All --Boston
Public Library 5. Texts 6. Book picture Library of Congress: 28
Million Books 7. Look inside the book 8. Bookmobile picture 9. 2 in
India 10. Egypt: 1 in Sept Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria
Egypt 11. Youssef books 12. Egypt 13. Uganda: 1 in Oct 14.
Ondemandbooks 15. Ondemandbooks2 16. Ondemandbooks3 17. olpc 18.
Olpc ebook 19. ereaders 20. Egyptian Scanner Bibliotheca
Alexandrina 21. ScribeScanner Scribe Book Scanner by the Internet
Archive 22. Toronto 23. Asami Collection / Starr 24. Chinese
Academy of Sciences: Botany 25. Bali Lontar Prep 26. Lontar 27.
First Complete Literature of a People To Go Online: Balinese 28.
Scanning Centers 1000 Books/day, 29 scanning centers, 6 countries
200 uFilm, uFiche / day 30 dollars a book, all told 29. Texts: All
Free 3,000,000 Free eBooks for everyone 1,000,000 Modern eBooks for
blind/dyslexic 300,000 Modern eBooks in Lending Library Maybe 8
million more to go 30. openlibrary.org for Books A web page for
every book ~150,000 visitors per day Open, editable bibliographic
catalog 31. Borrow an eBook http://openlibrary.org/borrow 32.
Borrow an eBook
http://openlibrary.org/books/OL24405389M/HTML5_For_Web_Designers
33. Checked Out!
http://openlibrary.org/books/OL24405389M/HTML5_For_Web_Designers/borrow
34. Try another title... Note library attribution
http://openlibrary.org/books/OL905152M/Our_Mayflower_ancestors_and_their_descendants
35. eBooks are available 3 ways In-Browser, PDF, ePub 36.
In-Browser: With Attribution to Lending Library Instant reading
available on any device with a web browser installed, through the
Internet Archive BookReader 37. Patron Loans Open Library account
holders can borrow up to 5 books at once. 38. Audio 39. Orchestra
40. Field band 41. Music Archive: 1,000,000 Recordings 42.
Digitizing Audio from Records 2-3 Million ever produced 10-20
dollars each 43. Audio 1,000,000 items in over 100 collections Live
Music Archive (4000 bands & 90,000 performances) Netlabels (600
labels) Mother Jones Radio LibriVox Audio Books Berkeley Groks
Science Radio Afropop Worldwide Old Time Radio Tse Chen Ling
Buddhist Lectures 78 RPM Records Free Speech Radio News
Presidential Recordings 44. Moving Images 45. Movie posters 46.
Prelinger page 47. movies 48. Film Scanner 49. VHS project 50.
Ephemeral VHS 51. http://archive.org/911 52. Lending Television 53.
Lending Television 54. Lending Television 55. Lending Television
56. Archiving Moving Images $25 per video hour to mass digitize
1,000,000 videos on the Archive now 2 million hours of TV that are
not online yet Hundreds new user submissions each day 57. Moving
Images 1,000,000 items in 100 collections Democracy Now SIGGRAPH
Computer Animation Film Chest Vintage Cartoons Prelinger Archives
Feature Films Universal Newsreels Mosaic Middle East News Kino
French Films 58. FBI National Security Letter Demand for
Information about Patron 59. We Sued the US Government 60. and won.
National Security Letter Lawyers 61. Software something Software:
50,000 titles 62. Everyone Can Now Run Old Software 63. Crawled
Hosts 64. Web Archive: 1996 Yahoo 65. Pets.com 66. SF Public
Library 1996 67. Original Press Release 68. Changed Press Release
69. Web Archiving Tool: Archive-it.org 1700 curated collections
Searchable and browsable Over 300 organizations curating 70.
Collaboration with Harvard University, Virginia Tech and National
Library of Japan using the Archive-It service Collection includes
content from: March 11, 2011 Earthquake Resulting Tsunami and
Nuclear Reactor activity On going restoration and recovery efforts
Digital Archive of Japan Disasters 2011 71. Archived: Capture date:
08/06/2011 http://wayback.archive-
it.org/2438/20110806224310/http://www.hyogo.med.or.jp/ishikai/northeastEarthquake/report.html
Reports of Medical Support Teams 72. Live Web: 404 error:
10/25/2012
http://www.hyogo.med.or.jp/ishikai/northeastEarthquake/report.html
Reports of Medical Support Teams 73. Archived: Capture date:
03/19/2011
http://wayback.archive-it.org/2438/20110319195827/http://www.minyu-
net.com/news/news/0316/news1.html News report of Fukushima
explosion 74. Live Web: 404 error: 10/25/2012
http://www.minyu-net.com/news/news/0316/news1.html News report of
Fukushima explosion 75. 18,478 seeds 100 million archived documents
6 TB of archived data The Collection To Date 76. Rare Books and
Letters 77. Photos 78. Letters and Manuscripts 79. Digitizing
Station 80. Next Up: Personal Digital Archives our digital
artifacts 81. Preservation Digital and Physical 82.
AlexandriaComputers 2002: 200TB Alexandria Egypt 83. Stichting
Internet Archive Amsterdam thanks to XS4ALL 84. Petaboxrow 2008:
2,000TB (2PB) San Francisco 85. Modular Storage 2009: 3,000TB (3PB)
Wayback Machine 86. Great Room 10,000,000,000,000,000 Bytes
Archived (2012) 87. Digital Archive for Your Collections your
lectures your photos your books your web collections (archive-it)
storage (upload S3-like API) 88. Physical Archive of the Internet
Archive 1,100,000 books so far 89. Libraries going Digital: Rent or
Own? Format Shifting? Digital First Sale? Bulk Download a Crime?
90. Universal Access to All Knowledge can be one of our greatest
achievements @brewster_kahle 91. Free to the People -Carnegie
Library, Pittsburgh 92. MIT 1996
