On 24/09/06, Delirium <delirium(a)hackish.org> wrote:
Ray Saintonge wrote:
> This is a Wikisource function, but that
dosn't make it easier. I have
> most of the first 20 years of McClure's Magazine. It was a monthly that
> became famous for muckraking journalism, and exposing the behaviour of
> big companies and government administration in the pre WWI era. 1,200
> pages per year for 20 years gives 24,000 pages, and is a daunting task.
> Weeklies and dailies don't make things any easier.
While it would certainly be nice to have it all
scanned, I don't think
it's necessary. We already cite lots of sources that aren't available
on the internet---recently published books, journal articles, etc.---so
I don't see why it would be a bigger problem that old news articles are
only available in archives, on microfilm, or via digital subscription.
Ain't nothin' wrong with citing sources that require a visit to a
library to access.
Yeah. It'd just be *nice* to have them scanned if they're PD. (Or
privately scanned if they're not.)
- d.