[Foundation-l] Old newspapers going to destruction

[Thomas Dalton]

2008/9/24 John at Darkstar <vacuum at 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?