On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
2008/9/24 John at Darkstar vacuum@jeb.no:
In Norway a university has a large collection of newspapers, the collection is claimed to cover around 3000 running meters in the store house - without the norwegian and nordic newspapers, whats left is international newspapers from the last 150 years. If no one is coming up with a solution the collection is going to be destructed (actually burned)
Traditionally, old newspapers in libraries would be converted to microfiche, why aren't they doing that?
With thousands of papers on backlog and limited manpower resources, it's probably far too large a task for them to start now. I'm surprised that they haven't looked into turning this into a profit source in some way, such as selling people newspapers from the day they were born (cost of the sale to cover conversion to microfiche and postage, at the very least), or something similar.
--Andrew Whitworth