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- No. The books in the National Emergency Library have been acquired through purchase or donation, just like a traditional library. The Internet Archive preserves and digitizes the books it owns and makes those scans available for users to borrow online, normally one at a time.
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Mar 30, 2020 · Last Tuesday we launched a National Emergency Library —1.4M digitized books available to users without a waitlist—in response to the rolling wave of school and library closures that remain in place to date.
Apr 1, 2020 · When the Internet Archive announced last week that it would respond to the historic shuttering of brick-and-mortar libraries across the country by creating a “National Emergency Library,” the...
- Rachelle Hampton
The National Emergency Library was a temporary collection of books that supported emergency remote teaching, research activities, independent scholarship, and intellectual stimulation while universities, schools, training centers, and libraries were closed due to COVID-19.
Apr 2, 2020 · Last week, cheerful news reports were published at both NPR and the New Yorker: The Internet Archive had just launched a service called the National Emergency Library, from which anyone...
Apr 1, 2020 · Last week, the nonprofit Internet Archive launched a National Emergency Library featuring 1.4 million digitized books from the last century, all freely available for download without the...
Jun 11, 2020 · These scans give virtual access to the hundreds of millions of books locked behind library doors and in classrooms during the Covid-19 crisis. They are scans so much inferior to regular e-books or paper books in terms of readability, but give students, scholars, and readers access during this unprecedented lockdown.
Apr 10, 2020 · Apr 10, 2020. In response to the far-reaching effects of the COVID-19 virus and related societal shutdown, the Internet Archive (IA) has built what it calls a “National Emergency Library”...
