View this email in your browser Archive    Donate     Blog     Jobs     Volunteer     October 2023 [size=34]Browsing the Archive[/size] Combining Research with Libraries This month the Internet Archive hosted its annual celebration, celebrating its mission of "Universal Access to All Knowledge" and highlighting several innovative projects. Founder and Digital Librarian Brewster Kahle spoke on the importance of libraries amid attempts to ban books and defund public resources. San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan was awarded the 2023 Internet Archive Hero Award for her support of digital rights and access to information. The advancement of AI was also discussed, including machine learning models for automated digitization and metadata extraction, underlining AI's role in content generation and community-driven knowledge sharing. Testimonials were given on how Internet Archive aids research, fact-checking, and language translation. The entire program was recorded and is available to watch below: WATCH THE RECORDING [size] [/size] A Decade of Emulation at the Internet Archive Ten years ago, the Internet Archive introduced the ability to emulate retro software within a web browser. Since then, 250,000 emulated software pieces have lived in the Archive—an achievement reflecting the evolution of emulation technology, starting with JavaScript and advancing to complex programs via Emscripten. The project, involving over a thousand hours of volunteer work, led to millions of visitors exploring old software and games, as well as the creation of specialized collections that offer a window into computer and software history. As it marks its ten-year milestone, the Internet Archive plans to expand its collection and preserve historical software for future generations. A blog on this achievement highlights contributors and showcases the Emularity framework, making running various emulators on archive.org possible. Notable additions include Hypercard Stacks, classic electronic handheld games, and calculators. READ THE BLOG [size] [/size] From Our Collections Tourist Traps From the American Printing House to the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, KY, our collection of Tourism Brochures hosts a smattering of scanned brochures related to tourist spots across the United States, often taken from display cases or rest stops. Peruse this ever-growing collection of tourist delights for festivals, museums, zoos, and more. Fight Off the Living Dead Max Brooks' 2003 book, The Zombie Survival Guide, is a manual on how to survive a zombie attack. It covers zombie physiology and behavior, defense strategies and tactics, and includes historic case studies of possible zombie outbreaks. Despite being fiction, the manual also contains practical information on disaster preparedness, making it a relevant read today. What We're Reading THE GUARDIAN: The US library system, once the best in the world, faces death by a thousand cuts FAST COMPANY: This internet music service started the revolution 30 years ago WIRED: The Whole of the Whole Earth Catalog Is Now Online OPEN CULTURE: A Free Digital Archive of Graphic Design: A Curated Collection of Design Treasures from the Internet Archive KOTTKE: Some of the Most Interesting and Weird Manuals in the Internet Archive TECHTARGET: How to use the Wayback Machine for a business advantage If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation to the Internet Archive, we would greatly appreciate your support. You can help out by visiting archive.org/donate or by texting ARCHIVE to 44321. Thank you for helping us provide Universal Access To All Knowledge. DONATE TO THE INTERNET ARCHIVE [size] [/size] [table style="border-collapse:separate" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width=] [tr][td style="padding-top:5px;padding-right:9px;padding-bottom:5px;padding-left:9px" align="left" valign="middle"][table style="border-collapse:collapse" align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width=] [tr][td align="center" valign="middle" width="24"] Share [table style="border-collapse:separate" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width=] [tr][td style="padding-top:5px;padding-right:9px;padding-bottom:5px;padding-left:9px" align="left" valign="middle"][table style="border-collapse:collapse" align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width=] [tr][td align="center" valign="middle" width="24"] Tweet [table style="border-collapse:separate" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width=] [tr][td style="padding-top:5px;padding-right:9px;padding-bottom:5px;padding-left:9px" align="left" valign="middle"][table style="border-collapse:collapse" align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width=] [tr][td align="center" valign="middle" width="24"] Forward

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