The library foundation is the beneficiary of a growing endowment from longtime Anchorage resident Janet Goetz, who died in 2010 and bequeathed her estate to the nonprofit in order to open a new ...

The project began in 2020, as libraries were closed due to the pandemic. It was an expansion of their Open Library project, which digitizes library books and allows people to check them out like ...

The IA’s Open Library project —which partners with libraries to scan print books in their collections and offer them as lendable e-books—had no right to reproduce 127 of the publishers ...

Four publishers — Hachette, Penguin Random House, Wiley, and HarperCollins — have filed suit against the Internet Archive’s Open Library project for distributing ebooks outside of ...

Many, including the creators of the Internet Archive's Open Library project, view having digital copies of books available online to borrow as the future of the traditional library.

The spat centers around IA’s Open Library project, which scans millions of physical books and delivers them digitally across the globe for free to anyone with an internet connection.