Vast Active Library and Information Science blog. From a recent library science graduate in Wellington, New Zealand. A focus on reference and current awareness tools and issues, especially free, web-based resources.

 
The Guardian reports that the UK government has just passed a law extending legal deposit to electronic publications.

"Chris Mole, Labour MP for Ipswich, who introduced the bill in December, said the British Library, the National Library of Scotland and the National Library of Wales; the University Library, Cambridge; the Bodleian Library, Oxford; and Trinity College Library, Dublin, would have to use their judgment in "harvesting" websites and electronic publications. "

| posted by Simon at 9:10 am