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Hello, all! We've had an overwhelming response to our tour invitation yesterday and all 20 slots have been taken now. We are now opening up another tour in the afternoon of the 29th, so if you missed out on the morning tour and still want to join us, please do sign up for the tour at 3pm at this new Eventbrite <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/afternoon-tour-added-inside-the-internet-archive-a-tour-for-wdpd18-tickets-51508213453>page. And as always, if you would like to schedule an individual tour at any other time, we can most likely accomodate you so please get in touch! Best regards, Ashley Ashley Ray European Digitisation Manager Internet Archive [log in to unmask] +442076112047 On 16/10/2018 14:20, Ashley Ray wrote: > > *apologies for crossposting* > > Hello, all! > > This year the Internet Archive (archive.org and openlibrary.org) would > like to celebrate World Digital Preservation Day (Thursday, November > 29th) by hosting a tour of our digitisation centre inside the Wellcome > Collection, London, UK. > > Since 1996, Internet Archive's mission has been to preserve the > knowledge of the world by offering free long term online access to > historians, scholars, researchers, and the general public. > > As part of this mission, we’ve been digitising books all around the > world. At our London scan centre alone we’ve digitised more than > 177,000 books in the last four years for our partners. That means > we’ve scanned nearly 28,000,000 images, all of which are available > freely online. > > If you’re interested in knowing more about how the Internet Archive > digitises, if you or your organisation were thinking about starting a > digitisation project, or if you’re just plain curious, please come on > our tour where we can show you how a book gets digitizes from > beginning to end. > > Please see our Eventbrite > <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inside-the-internet-archive-a-tour-for-wdpd18-tickets-51404274569> > for all of the details and to register for a free ticket--I’m afraid > that the tour must be limited to 20 people due to space constraints. > However, if space fills up quickly, I’d be happy to do another tour in > the afternoon or to schedule an individual that suit your schedule. > > Please contact me with any questions and I hope to see some of you there! > > Best regards, > > Ashley Ray > > (P.S. Please check out our Instagram > <https://www.instagram.com/internetarchive/>, where we post some of > the beautiful, strange, and unusual things we find while digitizing...!) > > -- > Ashley Ray > European Digitisation Manager > Internet Archive > [log in to unmask] > +442076112047 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the DIGITAL-PRESERVATION list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=DIGITAL-PRESERVATION&A=1