<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">An <a href="https://mashable.com/article/internet-archive" class="">interesting article</a> on this topic. I've pasted the meat of it below...<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(10, 18, 31);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Internet Archive \u2014 the no-cost, nonprofit digital library that has become embroiled in the nationwide battle over copyrights and free speech \u2014 is now an official source for government documents.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(10, 18, 31);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">According to a <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kDxXsYfhc0QRMGBURP5X5JmfUftjIM_U/view" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(59, 50, 213);" class="">new designation</span></a> announced by California Senator Alex Padilla, the <a href="https://archive.org/" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(59, 50, 213);" class="">website</span></a> will join a network of more than 1,000 libraries around the country tasked with archiving government documents for public view. Unlike other designated federal depository libraries, as they are known, the Archive is entirely online. The news was first reported by San Francisco's <a href="https://www.kqed.org/news/12049420/sf-based-internet-archive-is-now-a-federal-depository-library-what-does-that-mean" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(59, 50, 213);" class="">KQED</span></a>, who spoke to both Padilla and Archive founder Brewster Kahle about supporting the mission of "universalizing" all knowledge through digitization \u2014 this includes, says Kahle, "helping integrate these materials into things like Wikipedia, so that the whole internet ecosystem gets stronger as digital learners get closer access into the government materials.\u201d</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(10, 18, 31); min-height: 21px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div></div></body></html>