When you visit a public library, you get to meet the librarians and others who build and care for those collections. You know there are people who empty the garbage cans, who put back the borrowed books, who maintain the computers, and who determine what ends up on the shelf.
A digital library, on the other hand, is “just” a web site. You don’t really see the people who build it – we are often anonymous. But the Internet Archive wasn’t built by computers and algorithms.
From its inception, the Internet Archive whatsapp lead has been built by thousands of people who understand that we have an opportunity to use the Internet to give everyone access to canvas-2-doneknowledge. Every person on the planet should have the opportunity to learn and to make a contribution.
This goal – Universal Access to All Knowledge – inspires the people who have built the Internet Archive over the past 23 years.
People clean and repair the buildings that we occupy. People do payroll, choose our health plans, answer the phones, plan our events, reply to user emails, clean up spam, and pay our bills. People design and build the computers that hold the collections. People construct the network that carries data to every corner of the world. People write software that processes, backs up, and delivers files. People design and test and build interfaces. People digitize analog media and type in metadata. People curate collections, establish collaborations, and manage projects.
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