Archive-It Partner News, January 2022

January 19th, 2022

by the Archive-It team

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Community News

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Live chat support pilot

We are excited to announce that Archive-It is piloting a live chat service in an effort to boost access to support. You can help us test this experience over the next three weeks by using the Help Widget in your Archive-It account to ask us a question. For further details on live chat support, including our hours of availability, please see our article in the Help Center here.

Opt-in to our COVID-19 Web Archive access portal

Since 2020, more than 200 Archive-It partner organizations have curated more than 300 new collections about the global COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on their regions, institutions, and local communities. The Internet Archive recently received an American Rescue Plan grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services to build a COVID-19 Web Archive access portal to facilitate research and discovery across these collections. If you have Archive-It collections that you’d like to include in this access portal and research data set, please complete this brief information form. We will share additional info about the access portal as it develops over the coming months.

Quarterly update and Year-in-Review

Join the next open call with the Internet Archive staff and Archive-It partners on January 25, 2022, at 10 a.m. Pacific, 1 p.m. Eastern, 6 p.m. GMT. These quarterly open calls include the latest updates and discussion about web archiving and digital preservation technologies and service developments. All are welcome! Point your web browser here at call time to join.

Community Webs seeking applicants

We’re seeking applicants to join Community Webs on a year-round basis. Cultural heritage organizations in Canada, the US and around the world are encouraged to apply and capture your community through web archiving and Archive-It. Apply online via the Call for Applications.

Tech and Training

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January (1887 – 1922), The New York Public Library

New Wayback calendar page

Archive-It upgraded its Wayback calendar page this month to facilitate access to partners’ web archives, including improvements to error messaging, accessibility, and alignment with the public Wayback Machine collections. Read the announcement for more details.

2022 Canadian Web Archiving Symposium

The Canadian Web Archiving Coalition (CWAC) is offering a free, two-day virtual symposium sponsored by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries. The 2022 Canadian Web Archiving Symposium will take place on January 26 & 27 and will focus on discussions about the future of web archiving in Canada. If you are interested in attending, you can register here.

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A warm welcome to our newest partners!

Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ)
Claude Moore Health Sciences Library
Ilisagvik College
Thurgood Marshall State Law Library
United Nations
University of New Mexico Health Sciences Library