[Foundation-l] Old newspapers going to destruction

[David Moran]

Henning's right, there's an excellent chance the papers in danger of
destruction have no real need to be archived at all.

--David


On 9/24/08, John at Darkstar <vacuum at jeb.no> wrote:
>
> They don't know what the collection contains.
> Several has tried to get an answare and basically no one knows.
> John
>
> Henning Schlottmann skrev:
> > John at Darkstar 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)
> >
> >>From these words I understand that the Norwegian papers (and those in
> > Norwegian language) will be preserved, and the destruction only concerns
> > international papers in other languages. Is that correct?
> >
> > Well, then I see absolutely nothing wrong with burning them. One might
> > want to check if archives of those papers exist in their country of
> > origin, but if so, there simply is no need to preserve warehouses full
> > of dead trees.
> >
> > Regarding digitalization: That's the responsibility of the national
> > library of origin of those newspapers. And most of them already are
> > digitalized or are in the process or queued for it.
> >
> > If those newspapers are the usual suspects I would expect in a Norwegian
> > archive such as Svenska Dagbladet, Berlingske Tidende, Politiken, London
> > Times, Le Monde, El Mundo, New York Times and Washington Post,
> > Frankfurter Allgemeine, Prawda, and so on, I would assume that all of
> > them are available online and why should a Norwegian university spend
> > time and money to create another copy?
> >
> > Digitalization and online archives allow that not every research library
> > in the world has to do the same job again and again.
> >
> > Ciao Henning
> >
> >
> >
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