Please Read: A Note From The Internet Archive

In difficult times, there are always those who step in & help. The Internet Archive is hard at work ensuring your digital library stays ready to lend. Dear Internet Archive Community Member, In difficult times, there are always those who step in and help. In thousands of ways, big and small, ordinary people around the world are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic with kindness, strength, and generosity, providing a ray of hope for everyone who is struggling. Here at the Internet Archive, we’re hard at work ensuring that your local digital library remains open and ready to lend—so that students can keep learning, readers can keep reading, and everyone can seek refuge in art and culture. Will you take a moment to lend a hand yourself and help support us? [CHIP IN]( Right now and as always, our top priority is the public good. We are stepping up to provide online solutions for students of all ages as classes are cancelled. We’re providing unlimited access to millions of digitized books for educational purposes, so that teachers, educators, and librarians can share materials with remote students and [parents can help children keep learning]( outside of physical classrooms. We’re also providing access to lesson plans, educational media, and primary sources for researchers, academics, teachers, and self-taught learners everywhere. In COVID-19 we see not only a challenge, but also an opportunity to develop and share educational resources that will benefit generations to come. In an unprecedented period of isolation, the Internet Archive is also serving as an important [information and entertainment resource]( offering millions of books, albums, films, audio files, works of art, video games, and other collections to our users around the world. We know that quarantining isn’t easy, but having access to rich cultural resources can make it more bearable. During every crisis, those who have the hardest time paying for services are the hardest hit—which is one reason why the Internet Archive has always kept our collections completely free for everybody, everywhere. With demand for digital resources at an all-time high, our staff is hard at work from their homes and other remote locations, serving the public by keeping the Internet Archive online. We’re committed to [keeping a record of these times]( providing useful content, and ensuring that our collections will be freely available to everyone forever. You can help us do it. As a nonprofit, we rely on individual donations to keep going strong; we don’t run ads, sell user data, or charge for access. We’re grateful to have a community that provides assistance and encouragement as we promote Universal Access to All Knowledge. Your support has allowed us to respond to challenges in years prior, and your support will help us make it through this challenge as well. Will you help us continue our work by making a contribution today? [CHIP IN]( Thank you for your generosity and goodwill. Together, we can weather this crisis and keep sharing knowledge for years to come. Please stay healthy and safe, and enjoy the archive! -The Internet Archive Team [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [Website]( Our mailing address is: Internet Archive 300 Funston Avenue San Francisco, CA 94118 Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](.