We walked up to the imposing building on Funston Street in San Francisco adorned with tall Greek columns, wondering how this could be the home of the digital empire called the Internet Archive. Formerly a Christian Scientist church, this classical edifice was repurposed as a repository of knowledge, free to everyone. Founded in 1996, the Internet Archive is a non-profit, digital library which provides free access to a combined eleven million texts, audio recordings and live music concert recordings, plus 435 billion web pages. In addition to developing their own collections, the Archive is working to promote the formation of other Internet libraries in the United States and elsewhere. [Read more]
The American Printing History Association (APHA) with the Friends of Dard Hunter (FDH) announce our new (ad)venture: Joint Annual 2014 Conference in San Francisco, California from Thursday, October 16 to Saturday, October 18, 2014 at San Francisco Center for the Book. Proposals are due by March 15, 2014. PDF [Read more]
APHA with the Friends of Dard Hunter (FDH) announce our new (ad)venture: Joint Annual 2014 Conference in San Francisco, California from Thursday, October 16 to Saturday, October 18, 2014 at San Francisco Center for the Book. [Read more]
The 2013 Lieberman Lecture was delivered in San Francisco on July 20 by David Pankow, who has recently retired from all his many duties at Rochester Institute of Technology. The well-attended lecture was co-sponsored by the San Francisco Public Library and was held in the Koret Auditorium. John McBride and Kathleen Burch made all the arrangements on behalf of the Northern California Chapter. [Read more]
