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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
<https://archive.org/details/nationalemergencylibrary> 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
<https://archive.org/details/phillipsacademy> and Marygrove College
<https://archive.org/details/marygrovecollege>, and much of Trent
University’s <https://archive.org/details/trent_university> 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… <https://t.co/FB1J2xSeVY>

You can browse and borrow from the collection at archive.org/nel
<https://t.co/F7gcv0kP7L>
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
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vkl3RX4CzpRTQsoG1tsdHC0foYiU7A8U_Vt1UyVboP8/edit>
.

We've tried to address your *FAQs here.*
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QjErbouWG7pUlzcxPcRk4YEtbYs8ItlVTgLa1DfGh68/preview>

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!
-- 
*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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@whanamura

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