On 9/24/08, John at Darkstar vacuum@jeb.no wrote:
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)
I think the best thing to do is to scan them and make them publicly available. Of course neither I or WM Norway can set forth to do such a task, but if there should be some wealthy person out there that might be able to involve himself in such a task, I think it would be a very worthy gift to the mankind (where is the women!) to do such a thing.
When I heard of this I was shocked. Most of us are. I've infact studied with the university that attempted tu burn the newspapers. The plans have been stalled for now, but some permanent solution has to be found.
I find that really sad. Newspapers are such a vital record of culture and time. Recently, the National Library of Australia launched a project, The Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program, still in Beta, where they are scanning and making available to the public, Australian newspapers that are out of copyright. Here's the link > http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home and http://www.nla.gov.au/ndp/. I really love the project and I've been helping with text corrections. It might give you some ideas, maybe a university or library in Norway would be willing to take on a similar project.
-Sarah