Public Domain Day Short Film Contest Highlights Works of 1925Ī still from the winning submission Danse des Aliénés (Dance of the Insane), featuring actress Greta Garbo.įilmmakers responded with enthusiasm and creativity to a call from the Internet Archive to make short films using newly available content from 1925 in celebration of Public Domain Day.
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Posted in Books Archive, Education Archive, Image Archive, Lending Books, Movie Archive, Music, News, Open Library, Software Archive | Tagged librarian | It’s such a perfect little piece of history.” When she’s not working, Rossi enjoys making funky jewelry and elaborate cakes (a skill she learned on YouTube).Īmong the millions of items and collections in the Internet Archive, what is Rossi’s favorite? Video and audio recordings of her dad, now 73, playing the piano, organ and accordion: “It’s just so good. It’s also rewarding to help patrons discover new information and recover materials they may have thought were lost, she added. That, to me, is incredibly important,” Rossi said. “We can build a library that allows people to access information for free, wherever they are, and however they can get to it, in whatever way. There are so many societal problems she cannot solve, Rossi said, but she believes her work is making a contribution. Rossi acknowledges she is privileged to have means to avail herself to an abundance of information, while many in other parts of the world do not. “Giving people the resources to teach themselves-whatever they want to learn-is my driving force.” Alexis Rossi, Media & Access “Giving people the resources to teach themselves-whatever they want to learn-is my driving force.” “One of the themes of my life is trying to empower people to do whatever they want to do,” said Rossi, who grew up in Monterey, California, and now lives in San Francisco. In addition to overseeing the Open Library project, at the Internet Archive, Rossi managed a revamp of the organization’s website, ran the Wayback Machine for four years, founded the webwide crawling program, and is currently a librarian and director of media & access.
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Rossi concentrated on web interfaces for library information, understanding digital metadata, and how to operate as a digital librarian. “It also gave me better familiarity with how other more traditional libraries actually work-the types of data and systems they use.” “It gave me a better grasp of how to hierarchically organize information in a way that is sensible and useful to other libraries,” Rossi said. She enrolled at San Jose State University and earned her Master’s of Library and Information Science in 2010. She was working on the launch of the Open Library project when she recognized the need to learn more about how to best organize materials. In 2006, Rossi joined the staff of the Internet Archive.
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