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A Library at Your Fingertips – the Internet Archive

Maureen Taylor
Sep 24, 2014
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Welcome
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Speaker's Introduction
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Introduction
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Who's Behind It
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What's It All About
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Projects
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Archive-It
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Wayback Machine
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Text Collection
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Open Library
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Moving Images
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Discover the Unexpected
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How to Locate
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Flickr
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Mocavo
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DPLA
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Hathi Trust
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Public Library
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Announcements / prizes
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Questions / answers
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About this webinar

Genealogies, local histories, historic publications and more are available through the Internet Archive for FREE. This in-depth look at how to use this site covers publications, video and the WayBack machine. This is a live presentation with input from the audience.

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Maureen Taylor
Maureen Taylor, The Photo Detective is an internationally recognized expert on historic photograph identification and photo preservation. Sought out by clients all over the world from as far
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