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Friday, December 19, 2008

Year in review from Internet Archive

The Internet Archive has posted its year-end summary:

... Highlights of the Year

  • One million searchable, downloadable books
  • 150 billion web pages
  • 250,000 audio recordings
  • 135,000 videos
  • 796 new collections
  • 23 million Book Records on the new OpenLibrary.org site
  • Scan-on-Demand partnership with Boston Public Library
  • 182 employees in 18 facilities in 5 countries scanning 1,000 books a day
  • 145 libraries contributing to the Open Content Alliance
  • 140,000 images and videos on the new partnership with NASA NASAimages.org ...