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In the week of October 21, 2019, the Open Library website introduced a Book Sponsorship program,<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Internet Archive Book Drive {{!}} Open Library |url=https://openlibrary.org/bookdrive |access-date=2022-06-05 |website=openlibrary.org |archive-date=2022-06-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220605121050/https://openlibrary.org/bookdrive |url-status=live }}</ref> which according to [[Cory Doctorow]], "lets you direct a cash donation to pay for the purchase and scanning of any books. In return, you are first in line to check that book out when it is available, and then anyone who holds an Open Library library card can check it out.".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Doctorow |first1=Cory |title=The Internet Archive's Open Library will let you sponsor a book, paying for it to be scanned |url=https://boingboing.net/2019/10/22/hathi-never-forgets.html |website=BoingBoing |access-date=2019-10-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191023125120/https://boingboing.net/2019/10/22/hathi-never-forgets.html |archive-date=2019-10-23 |url-status=live |date=2019-10-22}}</ref> The feature was developed by Mek Karpeles, Tabish Shaikh,<ref name=":0" /> and other members of the community.<ref>{{cite web |last1=El-Sabrout |first1=Omar Rafik |title=Scan On Demand: Building the World's Open Library, Together |url=http://blog.openlibrary.org/2019/10/23/scan-on-demand-building-the-worlds-open-library-together |website=The Open Library Blog |access-date=2019-10-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191024160902/http://blog.openlibrary.org/2019/10/23/scan-on-demand-building-the-worlds-open-library-together/ |archive-date=2019-10-24 |url-status=live }}</ref>
==Books for the blind and
The website was relaunched adding [[ADA compliance]] and offering over 1 million modern and older books to the [[print disability|print disabled]] in May 2010<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/may/05/project-puts-1m-books-online-for-blind-dyslexic |title=Project puts 1M books online for blind, dyslexic {{pipe}} UTSanDiego.com |publisher=Signonsandiego.com |date=2010-05-05 |access-date=2015-06-26 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111217045351/http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/may/05/project-puts-1m-books-online-for-blind-dyslexic/ |archive-date=2011-12-17 }}</ref> using the [[DAISY Digital Talking Book]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/printdisabled|title=Welcome to Daisy Books for the Print Disabled|publisher=[[Internet Archive]]|access-date=2012-12-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130104215902/https://archive.org/details/printdisabled|archive-date=2013-01-04|url-status=live}}</ref> Under certain provisions of United States copyright law, libraries are sometimes able to reproduce copyrighted works in formats accessible to users with disabilities.<ref>{{cite web|title=NLS Factsheets: Copyright Law Amendment, 1996: PL 104-197|url=https://www.loc.gov/nls/reference/guides/copyright.html|website=Library of Congress NLS Factsheets|publisher=Library of Congress|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170521163748/http://www.loc.gov/nls/reference/guides/copyright.html|archive-date=2017-05-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Scheid|first1=Maria|title=Copyright and Accessibility|url=https://library.osu.edu/blogs/copyright/2015/08/28/copyright-and-accessibility/|website=Copyright Corner|publisher=The Ohio State University Libraries|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160630233308/https://library.osu.edu/blogs/copyright/2015/08/28/copyright-and-accessibility/|archive-date=2016-06-30}}</ref>
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