Participating libraries have largely pivoted to the GPO’s digital approach, but digitizing countless physical documents is a massive undertaking — one that the Internet Archive has experience with. For years, the Internet Archive has helped libraries and other academic institutions in digitizing their collections and hosting them online. Joining the Federal Depository Library Program is the next step in the evolution of Democracy’s Library, Kahle said. By doing so, the publishers alleged, the Internet Archive illegally provided free e-books. Last year, an appeals court upheld a 2023 federal court decision that ruled against the Internet Archive.