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.

 
Matapihi is a new, free service offering access to digital images from some of New Zealand's premier cultural organisations. It includes material from two of the largest New Zealand public libraries - Auckland and Christchurch City Libraries; from the Auckland Art Gallery; the Otago Museum; and the Alexander Turnbull Library - the archival library dedicated to preserving New Zealand's heritage.

Matapihi holds around 50, 000 images, sounds and objects. I haven't had time to play with it much yet, but it looks like a good resource. My only objection so far: it doesn't work well in Mozilla - something for the designers to consider addressing.

| posted by Simon at 2:04 pm