Climate control was quite rudimentary for most of the last 200 years and many old newspapers, even those printed on cheap pulp paper in the last century were still quite readable when they were replaced with microfilm and microfiche.
John Francis wrote: > On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 10:40:31PM +0100, mike wilson wrote: > >> John Graves wrote: >> >> >>> Mike, >>> >>> If only the world worked the way we think it should. My brother found >>> the obit in the Boston Public Library as a microfilm copy of the paper. >>> The Library doesn't retain newspapers after they have been microfilmed. >>> The film company does the filming in return for copy rights and supplies >>> the Library with a copy of the film at no charge. >>> >>> John G. >>> >> Ah. You seem to be suffering from philistine (not to mention >> catastrophically stupid) librarians. >> > > I'm sure the librarians would *love* to retain paper copies indefinitely. > Unfortunately in the real world somebody has to pay for all that climate > controlled storage spage, and what the librarians would like to do doesn't > come very high on the list of spending priorities. > > > -- Remember, it’s pillage then burn. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
