The Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in the Presidio of San Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data donations from Alexa Internet and others. In late 1999, the organization started to grow to include more well rounded collections. Now the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections.
The Internet Archive is working to prevent the Internet - a new medium with major historical significance - and other "born-digital" materials from disappearing into the past. Collaborating with institutions including the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian, we are working to preserve a record for generations to come.
Open and free access to literature and other writings has long been considered essential to education and to the maintenance of an open society. Public and philanthropic enterprises have supported it through the ages. The Internet Archive strives to provide universal access to all knowledge.
In addition to developing our own collections, we are working to promote the formation of other Internet libraries in the United States and elsewhere.
Contact:
Chet Grycz
Curator of Books
Internet Archive
116 Sheridan Avenue
San Francisco CA
94129
USA
http://archive.org
