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Statement

The Internet is failing us. The Internet Archive has tried, along with hundreds of other libraries, to do something about it.

A ruling in this case ironically can help all libraries, or it can hurt.

The Internet Archive is a library I founded 26 years ago. of years of books to the wikipedia generation, and now 4 massive publishers are suing to stop us.

As the world now looks to their screens for phone number library answers, what they find is often not good. People are struggling to figure out what is true and it is getting harder.

Digital learners need access to a library of books, a library at least as deep as the libraries we older people had the privilege to grow up with.

The Internet Archive has worked with hundreds of libraries for decades to provide such a library of books. A library where each of those books can be read by one reader at a time. This is what libraries have always done.

We also work with libraries that are under threat. We work with many libraries that have closed their doors completely– libraries with unique collections: Claremont School of Theology, Marygrove College of Detroit, cooking school of Johnson & Wales Denver, Concordia College of Bronxville NY, Drug Policy Alliance’s library of NYC, the Evangelical Seminary of Pennsylvania. I have looked these librarians in the eye and told them that we are there for them.