[Wikisource-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Old newspapers going to destruction

[John Vandenberg]

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From: John at Darkstar <vacuum at jeb.no>
Date: Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 10:27 PM
Subject: [Foundation-l] Old newspapers going to destruction
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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.

John

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