PETABOX

Like the Internet, television is also an ephemeral medium. We began archiving television programs in late 2000, and our first public TV project was an archive of TV news surrounding the events of September 11, 2001. In 2009 we began to make selected U.S. television news broadcasts searchable by captions in our TV News Archive. This service allows researchers and the public to use television as a citable and sharable reference... Anyone with a free account can upload media to the Internet Archive. We work with thousands of partners globally to save copies of their work into special collections... Because we are a library, we pay special attention to books. Not everyone has access to a public or academic library with a good collection, so to provide universal access we need to provide digital versions of books. We began a program to digitize books in 2005 and today we scan 4,400 books per day in 20 locations around the world. Books published in or prior to 1928 are available for..

Primary location: San Francisco United States