Author: mschofie

Preserving British-American Tobacco Company Films from Early 20th Century China

This work was completed as a final project in the Film and Media Collections class at Pratt. It is a grant proposal seeking funding for the preservation of a collection of films made by the British-American Tobacco Company in early 20th century China.

A Digital Disorder: The Future of Library Classification

So says the early 20th century British librarian, William Charles Berwick Sayers, in his influential, Manual of Classification for Librarians and Bibliographers (first published in 1926). Classification, as…