Internet Archive (a non-profit) "is a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, they provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public." June, 2007 the Internet Archive officially became a library according to the State of California.
The Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections.
Presently in the archive there are:
- 81,652 movies
- 41,948 concerts (live music archive)
- 167,691 recordings (audio)
- 239,925 texts
- 85 billion pages (archived webpages)
This collection is growing everyday!
Text, for example, can be available in a variety of formats: PDF, DjVu, B/W PDF, TXT, Flip Book, and via FTP.Great tool for research and presentations:
Whether you are looking for a video or audio files for a presentation/assignment there are an amazing collection of media files to download.
NOTE: As this website is based on "free speech and free access to all" there may be content on here that is not appropriate for young children. Please be sure to check through web content prior to using in a classroom with students.
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