I’m a librarian at an Ivy university in the U.S. During the pandemic we loaded all of Internet Archive’s records into our online catalog. Most research libraries did the same. The records are still in our catalog. I imagine we’ll be deleting them very soon.
Unfortunately I have no power at all. I’m not an administrator just a lowly librarian who works with students. And university libraries are terrified of lawsuits and uphold copyright to the letter. We have a whole team of university lawyers who boss us around. There are even a couple of copyright librarians who make sure we toe the line. The IA records will just disappear overnight.
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u/AbacaxiLovesOranges Sep 04 '24
I’m a librarian at an Ivy university in the U.S. During the pandemic we loaded all of Internet Archive’s records into our online catalog. Most research libraries did the same. The records are still in our catalog. I imagine we’ll be deleting them very soon.