I just tried to download a book from the open access. I need to be a ‘registered reader’? Which, as a citizen, I can do. I just need to apply in person at the LOC in Washington D.C.
"From the 1950s through the early 1990s, most film was cellulose acetate-based and known as "safety film," because it replaced the highly unstable and flammable nitrate film widely used before it.
But in the years since, libraries, archives and collectors have discovered "safety film" actually poses a huge threat to film-based archives and collections because it eventually breaks down. "
#Deichman Bjørvika, the spectacular main building of #Oslo public #library truly is a marvelous place. Spaciness seems to have been one guiding principle. Another one, the great attention to detail when placing pieces of art such as Simone Hooymans' video installation "Talking plants" (2020).