[Foundation-l] Old newspapers going to destruction

geni geniice at gmail.com
Wed Sep 24 15:36:25 UTC 2008


2008/9/24 John at Darkstar <vacuum at jeb.no>:
> They say it perts of it is complete, but how can they claim that and at
> the same time say they don't know what the collection contains?
>
> John
>

Oh pretty easy. Big collections often have poor cataloging. Even if
you know what you've got beyond "most stuff between years a and b
published by x"  that doesn't mean you know where it is.


-- 
geni



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