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WebarchiveWebarchiveThe British Library is one of the six legal deposit libraries for the UK — and the only one that doesn't pick and choose, or have to ask for copies. That's a lot of books to store, and the internet's only making it worse. ■ The BL

Webarchive Product

The UK Web Archive is the modern extension of legal deposit: because publishing isn’t just paper anymore. It’s an attempt to capture parts of the web before they vanish or mutate, which sounds simple until you remember what the internet is like.

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Pros

  • +Preserves snapshots of UK websites for long-term access
  • +Extends legal deposit principles into the digital world

Cons

  • -The web changes constantly, making complete archiving extremely difficult
  • -Scale and growth make long-term storage a continuing challenge

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This library has every book ever published.

This library has every book ever published.

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