On 24/09/06, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
Ray Saintonge wrote:
This is a Wikisource function, but that dosn't make it easier. I have most of the first 20 years of McClure's Magazine. It was a monthly that became famous for muckraking journalism, and exposing the behaviour of big companies and government administration in the pre WWI era. 1,200 pages per year for 20 years gives 24,000 pages, and is a daunting task. Weeklies and dailies don't make things any easier.
While it would certainly be nice to have it all scanned, I don't think it's necessary. We already cite lots of sources that aren't available on the internet---recently published books, journal articles, etc.---so I don't see why it would be a bigger problem that old news articles are only available in archives, on microfilm, or via digital subscription. Ain't nothin' wrong with citing sources that require a visit to a library to access.
Yeah. It'd just be *nice* to have them scanned if they're PD. (Or privately scanned if they're not.)
- d.