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.

 
Noted in passing: Film historians figure that 90% of all the silent movies ever made and half of the sound pictures made before 1950 no longer exist in complete form. SysBlog
(which quotes Ken Weissman, head of film preservation at the Library of Congress).

| posted by Simon at 7:51 pm