Brewster Kahle Director Internet Archive Public Access to Digital Materials Roles, Rights, and Responsibilities of Libraries                       Brewster Kahle Director Internet Archive May 2002 Brewster@archive.org February 19

Publishers Archiving? Publishers pursue their commercial interests rather than the public interest Example, a public domain work: Alice in Wonderland in Adobe’s Ebook is restricted in its use: “This book can not be read aloud” February 19

Bringing Collections Online: Examples Web Collection: Dealing with the Large and non-traditional collections Digitized Archival Records: Posting them on the Net 1001 Movies: Digitization and Donation of Rich Media InterLibrary Loan of Digital Materials Loaning Digital Materials February 19

More text than the Library of Congress, and only $300K US Web Collection Over 100TB 16M sites Over 10B pages 5 years More text than the Library of Congress, and only $300K US February 19

Alexa: Cataloging the Web Who Where When 3rd party reviews Out-of-print copies February 19

Alexa “Subject Indexing” the Web Related and competative links Built by usage paths and link analysis 80 million different “catalog entries” February 19

Presidential Election 1996 Archive Alexa with Smithsonian February 19

Presidential Election 2000 Archive LC with Internet Archive, Compaq, Alexa Internet 2-3 Terabytes February 19

Wayback Machine: Out of Print Pages February 19

Preservation through Replication Hardware Programmer error Format obsolescent Institutional drift Law/Government Full Mirror at the Library of Alexandria, Egypt February 19

Posting Archival Materials Scanning for $0.10/page Post and “purge the complainers” February 19

Intellectual Property Preserves Possible Tax Incentives Rights are quite clear, but often limited Not “comprehensive” February 19

InterLibrary Loan Walk into any library and gain access to the world’s collections Work more smoothly with Digital Materials February 19

Loaning Materials One approach: NetLibrary New publisher contracts: 2500 books in SFPL February 19

Lending Rich Media: Limited Streaming Lending limited copies Bedrock of the Library model “streaming” is borrowed February 19

Universal Access to Human Knowledge One page at a time, one patron at a time Brewster@archive.org February 19