http://tags.library.upenn.edu/tag/free_culture+internet_archive PennTags Feed http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/13279 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/13279 <p>Article about Open Content Alliance and the Internet Archive:<br /> </p><blockquote><p>The New York-based foundation on Wednesday will announce a $1 million grant to the Internet Archive, a leader in the Open Content Alliance, to help pay for digital copies of collections owned by the Boston Public Library, the Getty Research Institute, the Metropolitan Museum of Art.<br /><br />The works to be scanned include the personal library of John Adams, America's second president, and thousands of images from the Metropolitan Museum.<br /><br />The Sloan grant also will be used to scan a collection of anti-slavery material provided by the John Hopkins University Libraries and documents about the Gold Rush from a library at the University of California at Berkeley.</p></blockquote>