25 votes Internet Archive has created a National Emergency Library, allowing users access to all 1.4 million books in their collection with no waiting lists Posted March 25, 2020 by Deimos Tags: libraries, education, internet archive, digitized books, national emergency library, resource, author.chris freeland, source.archive https://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-emergency-library-to-provide-digitized-books-to-students-and-the-public/ Link information This data is scraped automatically and may be incorrect. Title Announcing a National Emergency Library to Provide Digitized Books to Students and the Public Authors chrisfreeland Published Mar 24 2020 Word count 856 words 5 comments Collapse replies Expand all Comments sorted by most votes newest first order posted relevance OK AugustusFerdinand March 25, 2020 Link His response in the comments is gold and reflects the attitude of many librarians from what I've encountered through my wife and her coworkers. Stephanie T. - March 24, 2020 at 4:58 pm Chris Freeland, you are an angel on earth. chrisfreeland Post author - March 24, 2020 at 5:46 pm Many thanks for your kind words, Stephanie, but no, I’m just a librarian. His response in the comments is gold and reflects the attitude of many librarians from what I've encountered through my wife and her coworkers. 13 votes [2] Wes March 25, 2020 Link I'm happy to see more books going free. Libraries are wonderful. Here's the https version if someone wants to update the link.... I'm happy to see more books going free. Libraries are wonderful. Here's the https version if someone wants to update the link. https://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-emergency-library-to-provide-digitized-books-to-students-and-the-public/ 9 votes mycketforvirrad March 25, 2020 Link Parent Done! Done! 6 votes [2] Deimos (OP) March 30, 2020 Link They made a follow-up post with some more info about this today: Internet Archive responds: Why we released the National Emergency Library They made a follow-up post with some more info about this today: Internet Archive responds: Why we released the National Emergency Library 4 votes [2] Comment deleted by author Link Parent Deimos (OP) March 31, 2020 Link Parent I hadn't seen much about that controversy. Ars Technica just published an article about it: Authors fume as online library “lends” unlimited free books I hadn't seen much about that controversy. Ars Technica just published an article about it: Authors fume as online library “lends” unlimited free books 1 vote
AugustusFerdinand March 25, 2020 Link His response in the comments is gold and reflects the attitude of many librarians from what I've encountered through my wife and her coworkers. Stephanie T. - March 24, 2020 at 4:58 pm Chris Freeland, you are an angel on earth. chrisfreeland Post author - March 24, 2020 at 5:46 pm Many thanks for your kind words, Stephanie, but no, I’m just a librarian. His response in the comments is gold and reflects the attitude of many librarians from what I've encountered through my wife and her coworkers. 13 votes
[2] Wes March 25, 2020 Link I'm happy to see more books going free. Libraries are wonderful. Here's the https version if someone wants to update the link.... I'm happy to see more books going free. Libraries are wonderful. Here's the https version if someone wants to update the link. https://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-emergency-library-to-provide-digitized-books-to-students-and-the-public/ 9 votes mycketforvirrad March 25, 2020 Link Parent Done! Done! 6 votes
[2] Deimos (OP) March 30, 2020 Link They made a follow-up post with some more info about this today: Internet Archive responds: Why we released the National Emergency Library They made a follow-up post with some more info about this today: Internet Archive responds: Why we released the National Emergency Library 4 votes [2] Comment deleted by author Link Parent Deimos (OP) March 31, 2020 Link Parent I hadn't seen much about that controversy. Ars Technica just published an article about it: Authors fume as online library “lends” unlimited free books I hadn't seen much about that controversy. Ars Technica just published an article about it: Authors fume as online library “lends” unlimited free books 1 vote
[2] Comment deleted by author Link Parent Deimos (OP) March 31, 2020 Link Parent I hadn't seen much about that controversy. Ars Technica just published an article about it: Authors fume as online library “lends” unlimited free books I hadn't seen much about that controversy. Ars Technica just published an article about it: Authors fume as online library “lends” unlimited free books 1 vote
Deimos (OP) March 31, 2020 Link Parent I hadn't seen much about that controversy. Ars Technica just published an article about it: Authors fume as online library “lends” unlimited free books I hadn't seen much about that controversy. Ars Technica just published an article about it: Authors fume as online library “lends” unlimited free books 1 vote
His response in the comments is gold and reflects the attitude of many librarians from what I've encountered through my wife and her coworkers.
I'm happy to see more books going free. Libraries are wonderful.
Here's the https version if someone wants to update the link.
https://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-emergency-library-to-provide-digitized-books-to-students-and-the-public/
Done!
They made a follow-up post with some more info about this today: Internet Archive responds: Why we released the National Emergency Library
I hadn't seen much about that controversy. Ars Technica just published an article about it: Authors fume as online library “lends” unlimited free books