📄 The scanners are humming, the film is flowing. The microfiche livestream is up—digitizing gov docs in real time for Democracy’s Library. Perfect second-screen vibes: Preservation in progress. 🕢 Live M-F, 7:30am–3:30pm PT (except U.S. holidays) t.co/v3TMVEIG6q

📢 The Internet Archive needs your help. At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine. Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit. 👉 Sign our open letter: t.co/6DGOL9afYp

🔗 Websites vanish. Links break. But knowledge can live on with your help. Use the Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now tool to archive webpages that are important to you. 🕰?💾 📌 Try it now: t.co/0x24WHkJKE t.co/imZPhF6W09

📽? Join us for STAFF PICKS FROM THE PRELINGER ARCHIVES, showcasing some of the most inspiring, amusing, & bewildering footage from their collection. 📅 Mar. 25 🕖? Doors open @ 7, show @ 7:30 📍 300 Funston Ave, SF 🎟? t.co/MfKnmg7HzL #StaffPicks @footage #FilmScreening t.co/8YFcIY1pNt

How has video shaped politics, law & culture? Join PETER B. KAUFMAN, media expert & author, & RICK PRELINGER, archivist & filmmaker, for a thought-provoking #booktalk. 📖 📅 Mar 18 | 🕡 6:30 PM 📍 300 Funston Ave, SF 🎟? t.co/k8dIPELnUC @Auths_Alliance @InternetArchive t.co/u1crW9eMTG

📽? Join us for the STAFF PICKS FROM THE PRELINGER ARCHIVES screening with the staff sharing their experiences preserving these treasures. 📅 Mar. 25 🕖? Doors open @ 7, show @ 7:30 📍 300 Funston Ave, SF 🎟? t.co/k0ABXQ4Xf5 @footage @InternetArchive 🕳? #VanishingCulture t.co/0L6IgieLh4

Don't miss PETER B. KAUFMAN & RICK PRELINGER exploring video’s impact on politics, law & culture in the #booktalk THE MOVING IMAGE: A USER'S MANUAL. 📅 Mar 18 | 🕡 6:30 PM 📍 300 Funston Ave, SF 🎟? t.co/k8dIPELnUC @InternetArchive @Auths_Alliance #SFEvents @FunCheapSF t.co/RQY6gzzGaf

Check out the No Way Out podcast interview with Mark Graham, USAF veteran & key figure at @InternetArchive. It’s a must-listen for anyone eager to understand how web archiving works & why it matters. 🎧 ?? t.co/ELRjbSyC3C #digitalpreservation #archives @MarkGraham t.co/55fzm6GACW

RT @RealPreCinema: This is the image (figure 154) Brewster is referring to when describing the Phantasmagoria Magic Lantern. The image belo…

Welcome to the public domain, THE OPRY HOUSE (1929)! 📽? This early talkie short features the Mound City Blue Blowers quartet performing My Gal Sal & Mabel Walker singing Let Me Call You Sweetheart. More ?? t.co/jNLDikrT0y #PublicDomainDay @InternetArchive #PopMusic t.co/nEzPV2t9sn

THE MOVING IMAGE: A USER'S MANUAL examines how video shapes our world. 🌐 Join PETER B. KAUFMAN & RICK PRELINGER for an in-person #booktalk. 📖 📅 Mar 18 | 🕡 6:30 PM 📍 300 Funston Ave, SF 🎟? t.co/k8dIPELnUC @InternetArchive #FunCheapSF t.co/6S5tuHd93w

TOMORROW is Public Domain Movie Night! HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940). Rosalind Russell plays a reporter about to marry & retire. Her ex, Cary Grant, tries everything to get her to stay. 📅 Feb. 28, 7:30 pm 📍 300 Funston Ave. SF 🎟? t.co/eL6eRKPpEk #FunCheapSF @InternetArchive t.co/fft5dy2W0C

Today is Victor Hugo’s birthday! 🎂 His 1831 novel THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME helped spark efforts to preserve Paris’s iconic cathedral. 📖 🔔 Illustrated edition ?? t.co/2Eex0QXwWT #VictorHugo #PublicDomain @InternetArchive #LetReadersRead #NotreDame #literature t.co/YFtmmYaF2i