[Foundation-l] Old newspapers going to destruction

[John at Darkstar]

Sad thing is, its the university that wants to burn the newspapers..
John

Sarah Ewart skrev:
> On 9/24/08, John at Darkstar <vacuum at 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
> 
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