Ibiblio

ibiblio (formerly SunSITE and MetaLab) is a "collection of collections," and hosts a diverse range of publicly available information and open source software.

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As a "Internet librarianship", ibiblio is a digital library and archive project. It is run jointly by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Center for the Public Domain. It also offers streaming audio radio stations. Unless otherwise specified, all material on ibiblio is assumed to be in the public domain. In 1992 by the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill developed SunSITE. SunSITE was to be an archive and an information sharing project for the public, and was funded by grants from Sun Microsystems, and thus the name. The relationship with Sun came to an end (an amicable one, according to the ibiblio FAQ. The change in name was for a "vendor-neutral name that expressed what our project has evolved into over the years") and the name was changed to MetaLab. It collaborated with various sources, including academic institutions, corporate businesses, and information technology entreprenuers. In September 2000, MetaLab began to collaborate with the Center for the Public Domain; the name was changed to ibiblio to reflect the goal of being "the public's library and digital archive".

Digital library: A digital library is a library in which a significant proportion of the resources are available in machine-readable format (as opposed to print or microform), accessible by means of computers. The digital content may be locally held or accessed remotely via computer networks. In libraries, the proce...

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is the eleventh-oldest institution of higher education (and the oldest public institution) in the United States. Known to many as Carolina, or simply UNC, it is consistently ranked among the elite American Univ...

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