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Post by Peter Stirling on Jan 11, 2010 15:01:52 GMT
Anybody who has ever been in the Colindale newspaper library and secretly rather enjoyed the rather eccentric and musty experience will be dismayed to know that they have about 2 years to carry on with their research, before it closes . Apparently its all going digital because they have not got the room for the never ending intake of newsprint. You would have thought they would have took digital copies from papers printed digitally in about the last 20 years rather than news print ..but hey that is just part of madness. www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jan/11/british-library-colindale-final-chapter coming to a terminal near you .... we can hope? |
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Post by Christopher.C on Jan 11, 2010 17:23:23 GMT
Argh. I was planning on visiting in the near future for a first time. I shall have to get my skates on then. A valuable resource and one that I hope will continue in digital form. I'm not near to anything else like this as far as I know. Are there any others like it around?
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Post by Richard Bignell on Jan 11, 2010 18:40:59 GMT
The digitisation will take a long, long time though.
When Colindale closes, the whole lot moves up to Boston Spa in Yorkshire.
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Post by Peter Stirling on Jan 12, 2010 11:24:06 GMT
The digitisation will take a long, long time though. quote] I think your right and this is what I was afraid of. sure you will be able get a digital copy of the Titanic sinking but stuff like who played Mrs Miggins in a 1958 BBC play or the article about when she played in the Fleapit theatre in Sidcup your never going to get....until about 2050. I would have thought a cheap quick way of digitalisation, would be a public scanner in the library IE everytime you request a paper or mag you would be asked to scan it voluntarily ..I am sure if people have time they would not mind.. plus the fact they would get a paper copy of their efforts. |
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