Every year, the Internet Archive throws a party at our headquarters, celebrating a different facet of our ongoing preservation work. The theme for 2026 is “Democracy’s Library: Tools for Participation” and we’re putting a spotlight on the ways every day people can use our tools to participate through the Internet Archive—from saving and contributing materials to exploring government records, researching history, and building new tools with our collections and APIs.This year, we will be featuring several of Internet Archive’s core projects in a street fair with live demos of our most impactful features. To begin, you can check out our Digitize a Book station, where you can try out our proven method of digitizing books, which we’ve been employing for 20 years that preservers the integrity of physical books. Have a favorite item or collection on the Internet Archive and want to talk about how you make use of it? Or have a personal story about a library or collection that you’d like to share with us? Pop by the Airstream trailer near the corner of Clement and Funston and share your archive story with Internet Archive’s resident oral historian, Marc Weber of the Computer History Museum. Here are the other Internet Archive projects that will be presenting at the street fair: Democracy’s Library: Democracy’s Library’s goal is to preserve government information and civic memory at critical moments of democratic change, with an archive that now contains more than 1,000 collections from over 50 government organizations. The team will demo their work preserving government websites, from local to national institutions in the U.S. and Canada.Wayback Machine: The Wayback team will showcase their “Save Page Now” tool that allows anyone to save any web page with a click of a button. They will also demo some other new tools for exploring our extensive collection of web archives.OpenLibrary.org: Come by this table to learn about how we are building the World’s Catalog of Books. The Open Library team will demo their new interface for browsing books as though you were browsing a library bookshelf, as well as new tools librarians can use to help improve our books’ metadata.Archive-It: Archive-It is a comprehensive suite of archiving, digital preservation, and research services. The team will highlight some of their ongoing projects to ensure perpetual access to diverse cultural and historically significant digital collections from around the globe. One project is Community Webs, which is helping public libraries and cultural organizations preserve their communities’ digital heritage.Tapestries: Tapestries is a tool that enables users to graphically assemble material from archives to tell stories, surface new contexts, and bring cultural artifacts to life. Once a tapestry has been created, it can be published in an open and machine-parsable format. The Tapestries team will demo the tool and showcase tapestries woven from Internet Archive’s materials.Donate Books: Do you have books you believe might not be part of Internet Archive’s collection? Come by this booth and learn about our Donate Books App – Internet Archive’s smart phone app for determining which books we want to add to our library. (The app can be downloaded from the App Store here, or from the Play Store here.)TV News Archive: Did you know that the Internet Archive has been archiving television news broadcasts of over 100 channels in 60 countries, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week? Come by this booth to check out the archives and learn how we do it.Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications (DLARC): DLARC is a library of materials and collections related to amateur radio, college radio, and related communications. Meet the team behind our efforts to document the history of amateur radio and to provide freely available educational resources for researchers, students, and the general public.Live Music Archive: The Live Music Archive is a community committed to providing the highest quality live concerts in a lossless, downloadable format for current and future generations to enjoy. Come by the Live Music Archive to check out our collection of over 300,000 live recordings from trade-friendly artists who have opted in to provide these works for strictly non-commercial access. DWeb: DWeb is a project that connects the people, projects and protocols essential to building a decentralized web — a web that centers principles such as human agency, interoperability, mutual respect, and openness. Come by the DWeb table to check out some hands-on demos of decentralized, peer-to-peer network technologies. Internet Archive Canada has been working with Canadian libraries, archives, and partner institutions for 20 years to digitize their holdings, and has preserved more than one million items totaling 390 terabytes of text, music scores, archival records, and other ephemera. Come by their table to learn about their programs creating open systems and tools for sharing and accessing information.Internet Archive Philanthropy: Visit the Philanthropy table to learn how you can support us. “Creating opportunities for donors to support our work, enables the Internet Archive to thrive”, said Joy Chesbrough, Head of Philanthropy. “Support from over 250,000 individual donors ensures millions of cultural and historical artifacts online are preserved and not erased.” We appreciate the public’s support of the digital commons. Providing universal access to knowledge is not only our mission, but a way for patrons around the world to freely access digital materials online.Internet’s Archive Friends and AlliesAt this year street fair, you’ll also find some of Internet Archive’s close allies and neighborhood organizations: Our Future Memory: Our Future Memory is a campaign that highlights the existential threat facing libraries, archives, and museums due to unfair digital licensing practices that erode their ability to preserve and provide access to knowledge. Come by this table to learn how you can join the fight to preserve our collective digital memory. Library Futures: Since 2020, Library Futures has worked to ensure public access to trusted information and support the institutions that underpin a healthy democracy, economic and educational opportunity, knowledge discovery, and creative expression. They work with librarians, community leaders, and policymakers to advocate for current and future digital rights of libraries and their communities. Better World Books: Better World Books is one of the leading socially conscious online booksellers and they have been a close partner of Internet Archive for several years. Through our partnership, BWB has donated more than six million books to the Internet Archive.Western Neighborhoods Project: The street fair will feature this local organization that researches the history of the western neighborhoods of San Francisco for preservation and community education. Western Neighborhoods Project will be tabling with a pop-up tent displaying panels with neighborhood history. ~We invite you to come out to the Internet Archive Headquarters in San Francisco on Wednesday October 21, and meet the teams behind your favorite archiving tools. 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