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28 September 2020CopyrightMolly Torsen Stech

Can artists weather the COVID-19 storm?

In June of this year, the US Internet Archive ended its National Emergency Library programme, which provided free access to almost 1.5 million books. Before the pandemic, the Internet Archive had permitted access to scanned books, which could be checked out digitally, to its users, one user at a time, not unlike a bricks-and-mortar library.

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