It includes resources from Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center Robarts Library/University of Toronto University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Library Brigham Young University National Library of Scotland Indianapolis City Library City Directory and Yearbooks Collection Leo Baeck Institute Archives of German-speaking Jewry Boston Public Library and many more. The Genealogy section was added in December 2008 and continues to expand. The value of these resources should not be underestimated! Since our focus is on genealogy, we’re going to explore the many resources genealogists can access within the Internet Archive. Even better, you can create a free account to borrow e-books, upload material, create virtual bookshelves, and mark favorite resources. Books published prior to 1927 are available for download, and hundreds of thousands of modern books can be borrowed through their Open Library site. The Archive began a program to digitize books in 2005 and today it scans four thousand three hundred books per day in eighteen locations around the world. It works with thousands of partners globally to save copies of their work into special collections. Also, anyone with a free account can upload media to the Archive. It pays to set up your free account with the Archive, as some e-books are accessible only if you have one. At this time it contains seven hundred thrity-five billion web pages, forty-one million books and texts, 14.7 million audio recordings (including two hundred forty thousand live concerts), 8.4 million videos (including 2.4 million television news programs), 4.4 million images, and eight hundred ninety thousand software programs. It soon began providing digital versions of other published works. The Archive began archiving the Internet in 1996 It now has over twenty-three years of web history accessible through the Wayback Machine and partners with over one thousand and other partners to identify important web pages. Their mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge. It provides free access to researchers, historians, scholars, people with print disabilities, and the general public.
The Internet Archive ( ) is a non-profit that is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.