National Emergency Library makes 1.4 million e-books accessible for people stuck at home

As US Government has anunced a complete lockdown on public places like restaurants, atres and schools and are constantly promoting social distancing, institutions of country like Internet Archive are trying to be invative. y are offering activities in line with social distancing guidelines. Here are details.

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National Emergency Library offers 1.4 million e-books 

Internet Archive is an American digital library, which provides free public access to collections of digitised materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving ims, and millions of books. Recently, it was reported that Internet Archive has launched a National Emergency Library, which is a digital collection of more than 1.4 million copyrighted e-books.

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Reportedly, officials at Internet Archive have taken this step to address unprecedented global need for access to research materials. internet library has also suspended waitlist for books and created emergency library, from which users can borrow books from National Emergency Library without joining a waitlist.

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As per reports, officials at  National Emergency Library has initiated movement to make online copies available to billions of people in world, who are stuck indoors to keep COVID-19 pandemic at bay. Internet Archive has reportedly anunced that books will be available until June 30, 2020, or end of US national emergency.

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