InternetArchive2046 Baffss People have been moving toward digital library services over 40 years for better accessibility, convenience, or preference. Digital tools, safety, and equity are crucial to the continuance of knowledge institutions. But those tools should be community-led and driven. #IA2046

InternetArchive2046 Baffss Libraries have always taken a strong stance on accessibility, even though the odds are often stacked against them. From text to speech to availability, libraries make it possible for everyone to access information as part of their core services. #IA2046

InternetArchive2046 Baffss Read more from the Library Accessibility Alliance libraryaccessibility.org #IA2046

InternetArchive2046 Baffss We seek to build a world where libraries are at the center of universal, quality access to knowledge and digital information rights for everyone. We want to create trusted community knowledge centers that are physically and digitally accessible to all. #IA2046

InternetArchive2046 Baffss That means fighting for the library's right to purchase, own, lend, and modify digital materials, as well as bringing libraries into the center of the most pressing issues of our time. #IA2046

InternetArchive2046 Baffss Join coalitions and communities fighting for access like state library organizations, consortia, library boards, our partners at nonprofits and libraries, and the Library Futures coalition! It takes a community to build a better knowledge ecosystem. We can't do it alone. #IA2046

InternetArchive2046 Baffss The best summation of what we're fighting right now is in the Library Futures principles! We must remain technology-positive and establish a better future through a cooperative and equitable approach #IA2046 libraryfutures.net/our-principles

We're fighting for a future where journalists and activists have the digital tools they need to defend democracy #IA2046

We're fighting for a future where the internet is a haven of learning, sharing, and community #IA2046

Govcorp officials have destroyed our servers, but Internet Archive lives on! Thanks to the global community of activists who helped transfer the data to the #DWeb #IA2046

We are continuing to operate underground, travelling from safe-house to safe-house. We are lucky to have such a strong community of #accesstoknowledge orgs and activists #IA2046

Allies all over the world are uploading forgotten cultural artefacts, educational resources, and community testimony to Internet Archive. We are building a resource that will help us fight for a better future #IA2046

We have hope that the next 25 years will bring us out of this dystopia. Together, we can find a better way forward #IA2046

Thank you to everyone who gave us updates from 2046: The Society Library 📖, Library Futures, Hugh McGuire, Creative Commons, Fight for the Future, aeolussurf, WITNESS #IA2046

Thank you to all the organizations who helped us build the resistance! DWeb → ⁂ @[email protected] Long Now Foundation Library Futures Fight for the Future Access Now Mozilla Freedom of the Press WITNESS APC Wikimedia Foundation EFF Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web @Auths_Alliance Creative Commons #IA2046

And thank YOU for travelling with us to 2046. Here's to a utopian 2071! Over and out #IA2046

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“The problem is not that the number of circulations set by the publisher is too small; the problem is that no publisher should be able to control these aspects–really any aspects–of the library’s workings.” pegasuslibrarian.com/2012/12/an-ebo… #ThrowbackThursday #themorethingschange

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