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Grant to Internet Archive Allows Expansion of Open Access Historical Collections

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Press release: “The Internet Archive Receives Grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to Digitize and Provide Open Online Access to Historical Collections from Five Major Libraries…The Sloan Foundation is proud to support the digitization of these high-value collections from five of the nation’s leading cultural institutions and to ensure that these materials will always be available through public channels for future use…These collections include:

  • Boston Public Library: The John Adams collection, which is the complete personal library of the Founding Father, lifelong book collector and second President of the United States.
  • The Getty Research Institute: Major collection of books on art and architecture and an alternate collection on the performing arts.
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art: The archive of publications issued by the Metropolitan Museum through the present.
  • Bancroft Library of the University of California at Berkeley: Key primary texts documenting the California Gold Rush and Western expansion.
  • Johns Hopkins University Libraries: The James Birney Collection of Anti-Slavery materials.”
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