Albert Wan, owner of the now-closed Bleak House Books
Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2025 5:45 am
Now, Wan wants others to do the same.
“There are still titles out there that have never been digitized and might be on the radar for being purged or sort of hidden from public view,” Wan said. “The hope is that more people would contribute and donate those kinds of books to the Archive and have them digitized so that people still have access to them.”
Do you have books you’d like to donate to the Internet Archive? Learn more.
Wan said he likes how the Internet Archive operates using controlled digital lending (CDL) where the items can be borrowed one at time, not infringing on the rights of the authors, while providing broad public access.
Before his family moved to Hong Kong for his wife’s university phone number library teaching job, Wan was a civil rights and criminal defense attorney in private practice. Now, they are all getting settled in Rochester, New York, where Wan plans to open another bookshop.
Memorial Day BBQ, Live Music and Lost Landscapes at the Internet Archive – Monday May 30, 2022
Posted on May 18, 2022 by BZ Petroff
Calling all SF Cineastes and Archivists!
LOST LANDSCAPES is BACK!! With BBQ and live music too!
Come join the fun this Memorial Day and hang out with us at the Internet Archive.
$1 hotdogs, live music by the Traveling Wilburys Revue then onto a screening of Prelinger Archives’ “Lost Landscapes: Earth, Fire, Air, Water: California Infrastructures“.
“There are still titles out there that have never been digitized and might be on the radar for being purged or sort of hidden from public view,” Wan said. “The hope is that more people would contribute and donate those kinds of books to the Archive and have them digitized so that people still have access to them.”
Do you have books you’d like to donate to the Internet Archive? Learn more.
Wan said he likes how the Internet Archive operates using controlled digital lending (CDL) where the items can be borrowed one at time, not infringing on the rights of the authors, while providing broad public access.
Before his family moved to Hong Kong for his wife’s university phone number library teaching job, Wan was a civil rights and criminal defense attorney in private practice. Now, they are all getting settled in Rochester, New York, where Wan plans to open another bookshop.
Memorial Day BBQ, Live Music and Lost Landscapes at the Internet Archive – Monday May 30, 2022
Posted on May 18, 2022 by BZ Petroff
Calling all SF Cineastes and Archivists!
LOST LANDSCAPES is BACK!! With BBQ and live music too!
Come join the fun this Memorial Day and hang out with us at the Internet Archive.
$1 hotdogs, live music by the Traveling Wilburys Revue then onto a screening of Prelinger Archives’ “Lost Landscapes: Earth, Fire, Air, Water: California Infrastructures“.