Library of Congress

The Library of Congress appears in News sites are blocking access to Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine as an alternative web-archiving institution. Andrew Deck says it has a smaller but substantial internet archiving project, making it relevant to the question of whether Public Web Archiving could rely more on state-supported institutions.

The episode immediately adds a governance caution. State-funded archiving may provide scale and durability, but governments can have incentives to change, hide, or narrow the historical record. That tension links the Library of Congress example to Internet History Fragility rather than making it a simple replacement for the Internet Archive or [[WaybackMachine|Wayback Machine]].

Connections

• Internet Archive and [[WaybackMachine|Wayback Machine]] - nonprofit archive model contrasted in the episode.
• Public Web Archiving - broader public archive function.
• Internet History Fragility and Public Service Journalism - risks and civic reporting uses.