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Type of site | Digital library and archive |
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| Available in | Multilingual, but predominately English |
| Owner | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Created by | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Sun Microsystems |
| URL | ibiblio.org |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | c. 1992 |
| Current status | Online |
ibiblio (formerly SunSITE.unc.edu and MetaLab.unc.edu[1]) is a "collection of collections", and hosts a diverse range of publicly available information and open source content, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies. As an "Internet librarianship", ibiblio is a digital library and archive project. It is run by the School of Information and Library Science and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with partners including the Center for the Public Domain, IBM, and SourceForge.[2] It also offers streaming audio radio stations. In November 1994 it started the first internet radio stream by rebroadcasting WXYC, the UNC student-run radio station. It also takes credit for the first non-commercial IPv6 / Internet2 radio stream. Unless otherwise specified, all material on ibiblio is assumed to be[3] in the public domain.
ibiblio is a member of the Open Library and Open Content Alliance.
- ^ Collaboration and Cooperation. Ibiblio.org (June 14, 2007). Retrieved on 2010-09-29.
- ^ "Who are your major contributors/partners?". FAQ. ibiblio. Retrieved June 25, 2008.
- ^ "Home to one of the largest "collections of collections" on the Internet, ibiblio.org is a conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies". about. ibiblio. Retrieved February 18, 2009.[permanent dead link]