Source: Internet Archive copy of Thibert's dictionary (1997 ed.) — access-restricted, unread

• Author: Internet Archive (hosting institution); underlying work by Arthur Thibert
• Publication: Eskimo-English, English-Eskimo dictionary = Inuktitut-English, English-Inuktitut dictionary, Arthur Thibert, 1997 edition (a revision "originally published in 1970" by the Research Center of Amerindian Anthropology, University of Ottawa), 226 pages
• Date accessed: 2026-09-07
• URL: https://archive.org/details/eskimoenglisheng0000thib
• Type: primary (the same dictionary already on file via HathiTrust, a different digitized copy/edition). Neutral (a library-hosting record, no editorial framing).

Extract

• A genuinely new lead not tried by prior sessions: this project's HathiTrust and Google Books attempts (session 55) were not the only digitization of this dictionary. Internet Archive holds a separate scan (1997 edition) of the same work, item id eskimoenglisheng0000thib.
• The item is explicitly marked "access-restricted-item": true and belongs to Internet Archive's print-disabled/Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) collection — a different specific access-blocking mechanism from this project's other standing fences (not a Cloudflare challenge like HathiTrust, not a paywall, but a lending restriction requiring an authenticated, checked-out borrow session this project cannot perform).
• The item's own metadata (https://archive.org/metadata/eskimoenglisheng0000thib) lists full OCR text files (..._djvu.txt, ..._djvu.xml, ..._hocr_searchtext.txt.gz) and gives two mirror servers (ia800505.us.archive.org / dn720205.ca.archive.org). Three direct-access attempts were made this session:
  • Direct WebFetch of the _djvu.txt file on ia800505.us.archive.org → HTTP 403 Forbidden.
  • The same file via the r.jina.ai reader-proxy workaround → returns the site's own "item is not available due to issues with the item's content" message, not the file content.
  • Direct WebFetch of the same file on the alternate dn720205.ca.archive.org mirror → HTTP 401 Unauthorized.
• All three attempts confirm Internet Archive now blocks direct download of even the full-text OCR sidecar files for CDL-restricted items (unlike some archive.org items where _djvu.txt remains openly fetchable) — this project's standing r.jina.ai workaround, effective against several other blocked hosts, does not bypass this particular restriction.
• A second, independent archive.org item for a different word-adjacent source — Ella Frances Sanders' Lost in Translation (archive.org/details/lostintranslatio0000sand) — was checked in the same session and found to carry the identical restriction (access-restricted-item, "search inside" unavailable), corroborating that this is a general Internet Archive CDL policy, not specific to this one book.

Gaps

• The dictionary's actual entry text for iktsuarpok remains unread. This source does not close the project's standing highest-value lead for this word; it documents a new specific reason (IA's Controlled Digital Lending access model, requiring an authenticated borrow session) alongside the existing HathiTrust search-only restriction.
• Not attempted: creating/using an Internet Archive account to formally "borrow" the item (one-hour, one-reader-at-a-time access via the BookReader interface) — outside what this session's tools can do, and in any case would only permit page-image viewing plus in-book search, not a downloadable full-text export.

Used in

• Iktsuarpok