[6] Techniques for appropriating web content used by artists in the collection include grabbing, hunting, scraping and performing, detailed by Soulellis in "Search, Compile, Publish,"[4] and later referenced by Alessandro Ludovico.
[7] Among the 130 artists included in Library of the Printed Web are Olia Lialina, Mishka Henner, Clement Valla, Karolis Kosas, Lauren Thorson, Cory Arcangel, Silvio Lorusso, Angela Genusa, Jean Keller, Aaron Krach, Joachim Schmid, Benjamin Shaykin, Chantal Zakari, Richard Prince, David Horvitz and Penelope Umbrico.
[10] The collection is used primarily for experimental publishing research,[11] as a way to question issues of copyright, privacy and appropriation by artists on the internet,[12] and as the basis for academic workshops in design and new media.
[24] Printed Web 3 was an open call and launched on the front page of Rhizome and at Offprint London in May 2015,[25] featuring work by 147 artists.
[26] Printed Web 4 was a co-publication with International Center of Photography and featured in the exhibition "Public, Private, Secret," curated by Charlotte Cotton in June 2016.