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.

1. Petabox

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

29. First Complete Literature of a People
To Go Online:
Balinese

30. Scanning
Centers
1000 Books/day, 29 scanning centers, 6 countries
200 uFilm, uFiche / day
30 dollars a book, all told

31. 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

32. openlibrary.org for Books
• A web page for every book
• ~150,000 visitors per day
• Open, editable bibliographic catalog

33. Borrow an eBook
http://openlibrary.org/borrow

34. Borrow an eBook
http://openlibrary.org/books/OL24405389M/HTML5_For_Web_Designers

35. Checked Out!
http://openlibrary.org/books/OL24405389M/HTML5_For_Web_Designers/borrow

36. Try another title... Note library attribution
http://openlibrary.org/books/OL905152M/Our_Mayflower_ancestors_and_their_descendants

37. eBooks are available 3 ways
In-Browser, PDF, ePub

38. In-Browser: With Attribution to Lending Library
Instant reading available on any device with a web browser installed, through the Internet Archive BookReader

39. Patron Loans
Open Library account holders can borrow up to 5 books at once.

40. Audio

41. Orchestra

42. Field band

43. Music Archive: 1,000,000 Recordings

44. Digitizing Audio from Records
• 2-3 Million ever produced
• 10-20 dollars each

45. 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

46. Moving Images

47. Movie posters

48. Prelinger page

49. movies

50. Film Scanner

51. VHS project

52. Ephemeral VHS

54. http://archive.org/911

55. Lending Television

56. Lending Television

57. Lending Television

58. Lending Television

59. 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

60. 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

61. FBI “National Security Letter”
Demand for Information about Patron

62. We Sued the US Government …

63. and won.
National Security Letter Lawyers

64. Software something
Software:
50,000 titles

65. Everyone Can Now Run Old Software

66. Crawled Hosts

67. Web Archive: 1996 Yahoo

68. Pets.com

69. SF Public Library 1996

70. Original Press Release

71. Changed Press Release

72. Web Archiving Tool:
Archive-it.org
• 1700 curated collections
• Searchable and browsable
• Over 300 organizations curating

73. 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

75. 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

76. Live Web:
404 error: 10/25/2012
http://www.hyogo.med.or.jp/ishikai/northeastEarthquake/report.html
Reports of Medical Support Teams

77. 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

78. Live Web:
404 error: 10/25/2012
http://www.minyu-net.com/news/news/0316/news1.html
News report of Fukushima explosion

79. • 18,478 seeds
• 100 million archived
documents
• 6 TB of archived data
The Collection To Date

80. Rare Books and Letters

81. Photos

82. Letters and Manuscripts

83. Digitizing Station

84. Next Up:
Personal Digital Archives
our digital artifacts

86. Preservation
Digital and Physical

87. AlexandriaComputers
2002: 200TB Alexandria Egypt

88. Stichting
Internet Archive
Amsterdam
thanks to
XS4ALL

89. Petaboxrow
2008: 2,000TB (2PB) San Francisco

90. Modular Storage
2009: 3,000TB (3PB) Wayback Machine

91. Great Room
10,000,000,000,000,000 Bytes Archived
(2012)

92. Digital Archive
for Your Collections
• your lectures
• your photos
• your books
• your web collections (archive-it)
• storage (upload S3-like API)

93. Physical Archive of the Internet Archive
1,100,000 books so far

94. Libraries going Digital: Rent or Own?
Format Shifting?
Digital First Sale?
Bulk Download a Crime?

95. Universal Access
to All Knowledge
…can be one of our greatest
achievements
@brewster_kahle

96. Free to the
People
-Carnegie
Library,
Pittsburgh

98. MIT 1996