Congratulations to @som-nnamani.bsky.social and @tanishqq.bsky.social on being selected as Open Library's 2026 Google Summer of Code Fellows.

This week’s deploy improves search relevance, infrastructure, translations and more. tinyurl.com/36cpmdvh

Happy National Superhero Day! Find your next favorite tale of courage and heroism here: tinyurl.com/3uvpr5kp

Celebrate Earth Day with these books about caring for our planet. tinyurl.com/28zzyc7p

Join @archive.org, the nonprofit behind Open Library, in person this week, for the launch of Vanishing Culture.

We’re working to improve search by 10%. Read about some improvements coming next week. tinyurl.com/hz6nftcm

Catherine Gosztonyi curated the #canadareads collection in Open Library. Read about her journey and what she learned as a Librarian-in-Training. tinyurl.com/4crup7tr

The Open Library weekly deploy is now complete. See what changed here: tinyurl.com/3bcbdye6

The Open Library weekly deploy is now complete. See changes here: tinyurl.com/mtjh2jjm

On #WorldHealthDay, explore books on global health, spanning public health research, policy, and systems. tinyurl.com/4y4ewp9z

Read more about Nazar’s work and its place in the digital commons. (3 of 3)

Nazar contributes to multiple open-source efforts to preserve important books. (2 of 3)

Nazar Kotsur has contributed to Open Library as a volunteer librarian since 2022. (1 of 3)

On Thursday 2026-03-26 at 10am PT, we plan to put @openlibrary in Read-Only mode for ~1 hour as we perform necessary database upgrades. At this time: login, reading log, and editing will be unavailable. One may borrow at archive.org. Thanks for your patience!

Nazar Kotsur, a volunteer librarian with Open Library, is helping make Ukrainian texts more accessible by linking books to @wikisource.bsky.social — where source texts have been transcribed into easier-to-read digital formats. Read about his work. tinyurl.com/5n97txbe

Hear from @brewster.kahle.org, digital librarian and founder of @archive.org—the nonprofit behind Open Library. In this ATG podcast with Michael Upshall from @chashub.bsky.social, Kahle discusses the challenges of preserving humanity’s knowledge in a global, open library.

Celebrate 3.14 by diving into books as infinite as Pi. tinyurl.com/3vbxv26e

Meet Engineering Fellow Ben Deitch, and learn how his contributions have improved the Open Library experience for readers around the world. tinyurl.com/j44mnjt8

This #WorldWildlifeDay, mark this year’s theme by exploring books on medicinal and aromatic plants in Open Library. tinyurl.com/yc4e787a

On this Future Knowledge podcast, author Edward Wilson-Lee talks about the true story behind "The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books." The book chronicles the adventures of Hernando Colón, who sailed with his father Christopher Columbus before setting out to build a library of everything ever printed.

Celebrate linguistic diversity by browsing multilingual books in Open Library’s digital archive. tinyurl.com/bdj24acn

No superstition required this Friday the 13th–just a good book. tinyurl.com/yv8kusjr

Register to attend @archive.org's next live podcast recording and #booktalk, featuring “Searches” author Vauhini Vara and cohost Luca Messarra. #books #booksky tinyurl.com/2u2h5a8a

Register to attend @archive.org's next book talk, AI Tools, Not Gods, with Caroline De Cock and Glyn Moody. #books #booksky tinyurl.com/4sj5sa5d

Shine a light on the achievements of women athletes on #NGWSD2026. Find your next great read on women in sports in Open Library: tinyurl.com/44r59y4m

Tracking down editions, series, and metadata took real sleuthing by the volunteer librarians who built the Nancy Drew collection on Open Library. tinyurl.com/332pk76s

Volunteer librarians curated and organized eight Nancy Drew series into a collection to make the books easier to discover on Open Library. tinyurl.com/332pk76s

Today is Library Shelfie day. You can use this cool beta tool by @lokeshdhakar.com to create and share a shelfie of your read books in Open Library. quietvolumes.com #LibraryShelfie

Go deeper into ideas in the podcast, and read Walled Culture on Open Library. tinyurl.com/ycxxxt25

@archive.org is holding a virtual #PublicDomainDay celebration on Jan. 21. RSVP to join the event.

As we end the year, we’re celebrating the work of the fellows, volunteers, and staff who made Open Library better in 2025. tinyurl.com/3x6pmr2y

At the non-profit Open Library, we put delivering value over vanity metrics. This month we achieved a drop in registrations, and here’s why we’re celebrating: blog.openlibrary.org/2025/12/06/a...

The Internet Archive Ops Team is addressing a hardware issue with a network switch that resulted from an unplanned upstream power outage. Data is safe, openlibrary.org will have intermittent access as equipment is cycled. Thank you for your patience.

The entire @openlibrary.org team would like to express our deep sadness at the loss of our friend Greg Newby who, for years, has seeded @gutenberg.org with public good, open access values worth continuing to follow. Thank you for your beautiful contributions. You are missed.

Help us celebrate the efforts of Open Library’s global contributors at this year’s Community Celebration. tinyurl.com/5dayhctr

Here’s how our lean-but-mighty team is improving search to handle heavy demand while adding new search features. tinyurl.com/7kprmueu

Here’s how to see what books are trending now on Open Library. tinyurl.com/mv9ute7w

The new trending books algorithm surfaces books with a spike in activity hour by hour, so you can discover the books that are getting interest right now. tinyurl.com/mv9ute7w

Now, borrowable K-12 books within the Open Library catalog are searchable by reading level. tinyurl.com/bdu3tcuu

Know of a new web book that should be added to our catalog? Tell us about it here. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Your kids can read along with the Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Summer Reading Club. Find books suitable for Daisy, Brownie, Junior or Cadette level in this collection.

Now, patrons with qualifying print disabilities can apply for special access when they register on Open Library.

Welcome to @ronibhakta.bsky.social and Sandy Chu, who were selected from a competitive field of applicants to work with Open Library for Google Summer of Code 2025. Stay tuned for micro-updates about their progress throughout the summer.

OpenLibrary.org may be temporarily offline today for the next ten minutes as we grow and resize our database servers. 🌱 You may still use Archive.org while you're waiting!

We’ve made improvements under the hood—now subject pages in our textbooks collection load faster. openlibrary.org/subjects/tex...

We’ve added reading levels to 10,000 K-12 books (with more to come). Now you can filter books by Lexile reading level in search. Use this query to try it out. bit.ly/42DMs2I

Tell us: Which of these features would you be most excited to see on openlibrary.org? 1. Community Tags (like Archive of Our Own) 2. The ability to nominate Best Books on any topic 3. Following other readers 4. On-the-fly book translations 5. Better collections 6. Other?

Now millions of books will appear with preview links on Open Library search results!

As part of an MLIS internship, @jordanfrederick.bsky.social has been working to refine Open Library’s catalogue and collections.

🧵 A few highlights from @openlibrary.org's 2024 Board Presentation