Part of the Canada Reads 2025 carousel in the Canada Reads collection on Open Library
Catherine Gosztonyi curated the #canadareads collection in Open Library. Read about her journey and what she learned as a Librarian-in-Training. tinyurl.com/4crup7tr
On #WorldHealthDay, explore books on global health, spanning public health research, policy, and systems. tinyurl.com/4y4ewp9z
Read more about Nazar’s work and its place in the digital commons. (3 of 3)
Nazar contributes to multiple open-source efforts to preserve important books. (2 of 3)
Nazar Kotsur has contributed to Open Library as a volunteer librarian since 2022. (1 of 3)
On Thursday 2026-03-26 at 10am PT, we plan to put @openlibrary in Read-Only mode for ~1 hour as we perform necessary database upgrades.
At this time: login, reading log, and editing will be unavailable. One may borrow at archive.org. Thanks for your patience!
Thanks for contacting us. Unfortunately, we have no way to check the physical copy or make changes or corrections. You can also contact info@archive.org.
Nazar Kotsur, a volunteer librarian with Open Library, is helping make Ukrainian texts more accessible by linking books to @wikisource.bsky.social — where source texts have been transcribed into easier-to-read digital formats. Read about his work. tinyurl.com/5n97txbe
Hear from @brewster.kahle.org, digital librarian and founder of @archive.org—the nonprofit behind Open Library.
In this ATG podcast with Michael Upshall from @chashub.bsky.social, Kahle discusses the challenges of preserving humanity’s knowledge in a global, open library.
Meet Engineering Fellow Ben Deitch, and learn how his contributions have improved the Open Library experience for readers around the world. tinyurl.com/j44mnjt8
This #WorldWildlifeDay, mark this year’s theme by exploring books on medicinal and aromatic plants in Open Library. tinyurl.com/yc4e787a
On this Future Knowledge podcast, author Edward Wilson-Lee talks about the true story behind "The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books."
The book chronicles the adventures of Hernando Colón, who sailed with his father Christopher Columbus before setting out to build a library of everything ever printed.
Celebrate linguistic diversity by browsing multilingual books in Open Library’s digital archive. tinyurl.com/bdj24acn
Register to attend @archive.org's next live podcast recording and #booktalk, featuring “Searches” author Vauhini Vara and cohost Luca Messarra. #books #booksky
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Register to attend @archive.org's next book talk, AI Tools, Not Gods, with Caroline De Cock and Glyn Moody. #books #booksky tinyurl.com/4sj5sa5d
Thank you Terence! This is an area where we're planning improvements to make imports more accessible to the community. Those docs are useful for architecture.
This may help on the bot-side of things :)
github.com/internetarch...
Hi JP! Sorry to be late to the conversation. @mek.fyi here from the Open Library team.
We have an client for using the API to fix metadata:
github.com/internetarch...
If you send me an email to mek@archive.org we can invite you to slack and help!
Shine a light on the achievements of women athletes on #NGWSD2026. Find your next great read on women in sports in Open Library: tinyurl.com/44r59y4m
Header consisting of Nancy Drew book covers with the text "Explore the Nancy Drew collection."
Tracking down editions, series, and metadata took real sleuthing by the volunteer librarians who built the Nancy Drew collection on Open Library. tinyurl.com/332pk76s
Image of a few series in the new Nancy Drew Collection on Open Library. Shows carousel selections from Nancy Drew on Campus and Nancy Drew Girl Detective.
Volunteer librarians curated and organized eight Nancy Drew series into a collection to make the books easier to discover on Open Library. tinyurl.com/332pk76s
Today is Library Shelfie day. You can use this cool beta tool by @lokeshdhakar.com to create and share a shelfie of your read books in Open Library. quietvolumes.com #LibraryShelfie
Go deeper into ideas in the podcast, and read Walled Culture on Open Library. tinyurl.com/ycxxxt25
@archive.org is holding a virtual #PublicDomainDay celebration on Jan. 21. RSVP to join the event.
Happy to see you referencing books from Open Library's catalog, @bobgorman8791.bsky.social!
We thought you may be happy that your use case is being explored by the team to enable readers and researchers like yourself to more easily share select annotations.
github.com/internetarch...
As we end the year, we’re celebrating the work of the fellows, volunteers, and staff who made Open Library better in 2025. tinyurl.com/3x6pmr2y
At the non-profit Open Library, we put delivering value over vanity metrics. This month we achieved a drop in registrations, and here’s why we’re celebrating:
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