As one or two
associates may know, I have been trying to obtain the 1886 year of AD Jones’
Day Star from the Library of Congress. Visitors to the library have previously
been daunted by the surviving volume being off site, and by the time it could
be retrieved they were on a plane to somewhere else.
The result of
correspondence to and fro since last December resulted in the volume being
looked at closely, and the following was the gist of the final message:
There is no possibility of microfilming
pages so large. However, they could be digitized at 300 dpi, with a
page-turner, and loaded up onto the Library of Congress site, but at the moment, there is a huge queue of material
waiting for this treatment, plus a big gap in the budget, so digitizing fragile
materials is proceeding very slowly apace. In the meantime these volumes are boxed
in an acid-free box, and, apart from being looked at for the query they are stored
flat in a map cabinet and are in cold storage.
The message ended:
You could try writing again in about
three or four years.
1 comment:
How frustrating.
Anyway, you can use it for the third edition. ;-)
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