ibiblio (formerly SunSITE.unc.edu and MetaLab.unc.edu) is a "collection of collections", and hosts a diverse range of publicly available information and
open source
Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...
content, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies. As an "Internet librarianship", ibiblio is a
digital library
A digital library, also called an online library, an internet library, a digital repository, or a digital collection is an online database of digital objects that can include text, still images, audio, video, digital documents, or other digital me ...
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
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, with partners including the
Center for the Public Domain
The Center for the Public Domain was a charitable foundation created in 1999 by Bob Young as the Red Hat Center. It provided free online legal resources, sponsored public domain spaces on the Internet, and campaigned for copyright reforms.