Amber Passen from Bartholomew County Public Library discusses the successes and challenges of developing a novel digital preservation program.
Tyng-Ruey Chuang discusses Academia Sinica's collaborative work creating a digital archive, called the Sunflower Movement, documenting Taiwan's civil and political histories.
Dylan Gaffney discusses Forbes Library's work preserving rural African-American history and life in New England, through the Documenting Early Black Lives in the Connecticut River Valley project and digitizing the Judd Manuscript Collection.
The Community Webs program received $750,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to expand the program to 200+ public libraries across the United States.
Community Programs staff give an overview of the results from a survey of Community Webs members' digital preservation needs and activities, which will inform the direction of the program in 2024 and beyond.
In this guest blog post by Community Webs member, Jacquelyn Oshman of New Brunswick Free Public Library, discusses the her work digitizing city directories as a part of the collaborative digitization grant funded by the National Historical Publications and Research Commission.
Community Webs is happy to announce support from the NHPRC Archives Collaboratives program to digitize and provide access to a diverse range of content from across the country that represents the experience of immigrant, indigenous, and African American communities throughout the United States.
Metadata for more than 4,800 archived websites and web collections created by 23 Community Webs member organizations are now available in Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).
Community Webs members from 15 organizations across the US came together to hear updates, learn from one another, and test out new features in Archive-It.
Community Webs member Dana Hamlin, Archivist & Local History Librarian at Waltham Public Library, shares her work filling in gaps in her library’s collections created when records shift from paper into bits and bytes that disappear from the web or get stuck behind paywalls.
The Community Webs program team hosted its 2022 US Symposium at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC. For this day-long meeting, we welcomed over 30 librarians and archivists from across the country for presentations, discussion, networking, and some much-needed catch up following two years of entirely virtual events.
50+ librarians and archivists, including Community Webs members, from across Canada came together at Internet Archive Canada Headquarters in Vancouver to share updates on digital archiving projects underway across the country
Community Webs member Tricia Dean, Tech Services Manager at Wilmington Public Library District, discusses how Community Webs is helping showcase the stories of small and rural communities.
Folks from the Inuit Circumpolar Council Alaska, a Community Webs member organization, share their vision for preserving digital content to support thriving communities and a richer understanding of Inuit political life and cultural heritage.
Community Webs member Olivia Radbill, Adult Services/Local History Librarian at South Pasadena Public Library, describes how they made web archiving an integral part of their organization's rich local history program.
Community Webs members told us how things are going, what could be improved, and how they would like to get more involved via our Feedback and Engagement Survey.
Members of web archiving institutions from across Canada - including some Community Webs members - came together to discuss the current and future state of web archiving across the country.
Web Archivist Karl-Rainer Blumenthal describes the swell of COVID-19 web archives created collectively by local history organizations - including Community Webs members - as the pandemic played out across the world
Community Webs member Grace Moran shares her experience building community-centered collections on the Society of American Archivists Web Archiving Section Blog
Community Webs members came together to learn about our partnership with the Digital Public Library of America and find out how they can opt in to having their collections included on the DPLA platform
Community Webs member Kanta Kapoor of Milton Public Library shares the prize for her work in Controlled Digital Lending.
Community Webs Member kYmberly Keeton of Art | library deco shares her experience building the Texas Black Artist Collective web archive collection at the Archive-It Partner Meeting
Community Webs welcomed our members from around the world for a half-day meeting of panelists, presentations, discussions and networking.
Community Webs member Zakiya Collier discusses her work capturing Black-authored and Black-related online educational resources to document Black studies, movements, and experiences in the twenty-first century through the #SchomburgSyllabus project.
New Community Webs partner Grace McGann shares the collecting, access, and stewardship goals that will guide web archiving at the Tipp City Public Library in Illinois.
Internet Archive’s Community Webs program announces a partnership with the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) to ingest metadata from the over 700 publicly available Community Webs web archive collections into DPLA.
The Internet Archive opens its Community Webs program to cultural heritage organizations in the US, Canada and internationally.
Hartford Public Library’s Hartford History Center is excited to share that it has been named to the Internet Archive’s Community Webs Program.
Following our announcement of the Community Web’s expansion, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we are excited to welcome the first class of 50+ new public libraries to the program.
The Internet Archive presents a discussion with Community Webs partner Makiba J. Foster, manager of the African American Research Library and Cultural Center (AARLCC) for Broward County Libraries.
Hear from Dr. Yarimar Bonilla of Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center and Zakiya Collier, Community Webs partner from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, about the Hashtag Syllabus movement.
Community Webs members from Brooklyn Public Library’s Center for Brooklyn History capture online news, blogs, and other web content vital to documenting life in Brooklyn.
The Community Webs program received $1.13 million from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to expand the program to 150+ public libraries across the United States.
Public Libraries are at the forefront of collecting COVID-related stories, and Community Webs members are doing vital work documenting local responses from the web.
The Institute of Museum and Library services awards funding to Community Webs to expand activities and conduct program evaluation and strategic planning.
Community Web members participate in an educational session on collection development.
Read the grant final report from the first phase of the Community Webs program.
New collecting guidelines and examples from Community Webs partners.
At DPLAFest 2019 on April 17 in Chicago, speakers addressed ways to preserve and highlight collections while amplifying marginalized histories and connecting with communities.
This session featured participants in, and organizers of, Community Webs - a project aimed at making web archiving more approachable to public libraries
Cohort members from the 27 participating public libraries gathered at the Columbus Metropolitan Library for their yearly summit, and to mark the second (and final) year of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) funded Community Webs program.
Maria Praetzellis from the Internet Archive and Makiba Foster from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture share their experience with the Community Webs program
Following the October 2017 wildfires, journalists and others came to Sonoma County History & Genealogy Library to learn about the historic development of Fountain Grove, Coffey Park and other areas affected by fire.
A guest post by Dylan Gaffney, Forbes Library. Whether documenting the indie music scene of the 1990s, researching the history of local abolitionists and formerly enslaved peoples in the 1840s, or helping patrons research the early LGBT movement in the area, I am frequently reminded of what was not saved or is not physically present in our collections....
SAA 2018 panel on Community Webs featuring participants from public libraries in San Francisco CA, Brooklyn Ny, Cleveland OH, Washington D.C, Queens NY, and Urbana IL
During the summer of 2016, Baton Rouge witnessed the shooting of Alton Sterling, the mass shooting of Baton Rouge law ...
Forbes Library is excited to share the news that we have been chosen as one of only a few public libraries nationwide to receive the Community Webs grant...
Community Webss at the Texas Digital Libraries Conference
A guest post by Diana Bowers-Smith, Archivist, Brooklyn Collection, at the Brooklyn Public Library. For this year’s Endangered Data Week, the Brooklyn Public Library hosted a panel ...
Updates and information for the Community Webs cohort
Conference presentation by Diana Bowers-Smith, Brooklyn Public Library, Cate Corcoran, Brownstoner, John Del Signore, Formerly of Gothamist
Updates and information for the Community Webs cohort
The Athens Regional Library System was awarded a prestigious grant to participate in the Community Webs Project, a nationwide...
The phrase “historical artifact,” might not conjure up the image of an online chat room from the 1990’s, a Geocities website or your Myspace page...
The Patagonia Public Library was recently awarded a $6,500 grant to preserve web-based information produced in the local area...
Through the Community Webs project, the Grand Rapids Public Library is one of 28 libraries to receive a $25,000 grant to fund a web archiving project over the course of five years.
Conference Presentation by Sylvie Rollason-Cass, Internet Archive, and Natalie Milbrodt, Queens Public Library.