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Dear Colleagues,
The Internet Archive announces: As of today, March 24, 2020, the Internet Archive will suspend waitlists for the 1.4 million (and growing) books in our lending library by creating a National Emergency Library to serve the nation’s displaced learners. This suspension will run through June 30, 2020, or the end of the US national emergency, whichever is later,  to meet students’ and readers’ needs while schools and libraries are closed at global scale.

This library brings together all the books from Phillips Academy Andover and Marygrove College, and much of Trent University’s collections, along with over a million other books donated from other libraries to readers worldwide that are locked out of their libraries.

Read more at: blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/ann…

You can browse and borrow from the collection at archive.org/nel 
Our books portal, Open Library, offers ways to search by genre, author and more.  https://openlibrary.org/

Almost 200 institutions and individuals have endorsed this effort.  You can join them in endorsing here.

We've tried to address your FAQs here.

For more information or to join a webinar about these efforts, contact [log in to unmask]

Please help us spread the word: #NationalEmergencyLibrary (graphics attached!)

Thank you!
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Wendy Hanamura
Director of Partnerships
415-561-6767
415-335-0895 (mobile)

Internet Archive
300 Funston Ave
San Francisco, CA  94118

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