[Ohiodig] FW: Major Library Orgs Join the Fight For Library Digital Rights

[Carleton, Janet (she/her)]

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Major Library Organizations Join the Fight for Library Digital Rights

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Three of North America’s leading library organizations—the American Library Association (ALA), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL)—along with the Boston Library Consortium (BLC), representing 26 research libraries in New England, have signed the Statement on Four Digital Rights for Memory Institutions Online.

Read the announcement<https://archive.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38bd6154386f64fcd92204a25&id=7cc652ca61&e=72556a574e> from ALA, ARL & CARL.
Read the announcement<https://archive.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38bd6154386f64fcd92204a25&id=458c72f4ce&e=72556a574e> from BLC.

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These organizations add significant momentum to the global movement to protect libraries’, archives’ and museums’ ability to collect, preserve, provide digital access, and collaborate in the digital age. Representing thousands of public and research libraries across the U.S. and Canada, these new signatories join more than forty organizations worldwide—including the Wikimedia Foundation and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)—in calling for the basic legal protections memory institutions need to continue their public mission amid restrictive digital platforms and licensing environments.

Want to Learn More?

  *   LISTEN: To hear more about the origins of the Our Future Memory campaign, be sure to listen to the Future Knowledge podcast on the Four Digital Rights<https://archive.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38bd6154386f64fcd92204a25&id=8bdcce1f9b&e=72556a574e>.
  *   REGISTER: Join our informational webinar<https://archive.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38bd6154386f64fcd92204a25&id=0767e1d2c9&e=72556a574e> on January 27: Protect Our Future Memory: Join the Call for Library Digital Rights.


Hear the Story Behind Kodak's First Web Site

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Erin Malone, the user experience designer behind Kodak’s first web site, looks back on the early web with the story of how she and a colleague built the company’s inaugural homepage in 1994, before most of marketing even knew what the web was. Learn more...<https://archive.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38bd6154386f64fcd92204a25&id=01ff56a532&e=72556a574e>


Voices Celebrating 1 Trillion Web Pages Archived

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Musician Peter Gabriel celebrates one trillion web pages archived<https://archive.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38bd6154386f64fcd92204a25&id=a70c809944&e=72556a574e> as an “extraordinary achievement” that helps humanity remember—and not lose itself.

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Lia Holland of Fight for the Future explains why safeguarding the Internet Archive’s trillion-page legacy<https://archive.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38bd6154386f64fcd92204a25&id=138ba69d93&e=72556a574e> is a fight for truth, community memory, and the future of the open web.


Ready to Remix the Public Domain?

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We invite filmmakers, artists, and creatives of all skill levels and backgrounds to celebrate Public Domain Day by creating and uploading a 2-3 minute short film to the Internet Archive. Top entries will be awarded prizes up to $1,500, with winners announced during our virtual and in-person Public Domain Day Celebrations on January 21, 2026. Learn more about the contest<https://archive.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38bd6154386f64fcd92204a25&id=61268b489d&e=72556a574e> and view winners from previous years.


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The internet wasn’t ruined by accident—it was ruined on purpose. In this episode<https://archive.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38bd6154386f64fcd92204a25&id=689f06454a&e=72556a574e>, Cory Doctorow joins us to break down the slow, deliberate process that transformed an open, vibrant web into something extractive, frustrating, and increasingly hostile to users. Doctorow explains how platform lock-in, predatory business models, and concentrated corporate power hollowed out the digital spaces we rely on—and how we can build an internet that serves people again.

🎙️ Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts: https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/<https://archive.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38bd6154386f64fcd92204a25&id=94b1bfaa3c&e=72556a574e>


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December 18—Book Talk: The Public Domain
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Join James Boyle with Molly Shaffer Van Houweling on why protecting our cultural commons is essential for creativity and innovation.

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January 27, 2026—Protect Our Future Memory: Join the Call for Library Digital Rights
10am PT / 1pm ET
ONLINE
Join the Internet Archive and partners for “Protect Our Future Memory: Join the Call for Library Digital Rights,” a webinar introducing Our Future Memory<https://archive.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38bd6154386f64fcd92204a25&id=52ba974a11&e=72556a574e>—a growing international movement to ensure that memory institutions have the same rights online that they’ve always had in the physical world. We’re inviting libraries, archives, and allied organizations everywhere to add their names, share their support, and stand together for the future of digital preservation.

Register<https://archive.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38bd6154386f64fcd92204a25&id=b74c984ec4&e=72556a574e>


In Other News...


  *   The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) announced that it has reinstated all previously terminated grants<https://archive.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38bd6154386f64fcd92204a25&id=9cff87784c&e=72556a574e>. ALA celebrated the news<https://archive.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38bd6154386f64fcd92204a25&id=b599c0c953&e=72556a574e> in support of the nation's libraries. For more information, check out the excellent coverage<https://archive.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38bd6154386f64fcd92204a25&id=8140d82f5e&e=72556a574e> from Words and Money.
  *   Authors Alliance has released the Principles and Goals<https://archive.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38bd6154386f64fcd92204a25&id=636fa3098f&e=72556a574e> of the Public Interest Corpus, a roadmap for creating a trustworthy, high-quality books-data corpus that supports public-interest AI research.
  *   Poynter, IRE and Internet Archive launch ‘Today’s News for Tomorrow,’ a project to help newsrooms preserve their digital footprint<https://archive.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38bd6154386f64fcd92204a25&id=ecbcad97d1&e=72556a574e>.
  *   Eric Harbeson addresses a thorny copyright question in a new white paper for Authors Alliance<https://archive.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38bd6154386f64fcd92204a25&id=c4530adbd2&e=72556a574e>: who legally authors scholarly works—institutions or individual academics?
  *   Victory Deferred, a first-hand account of the early days of the AIDS crisis by journalist John-Manuel Andriote, has been released by the author as an open access edition<https://archive.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38bd6154386f64fcd92204a25&id=5943399150&e=72556a574e> on the Internet Archive.


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