Dear Brain Trust,

My university has an incomplete bound run of The New York Times 1914-1935 held elsewhere on campus. We might have to have a realistic conversation about whether to move these gigantic volumes in varying condition to our periodicals collection, our special collections, or somewhere else not under our library's purview. This conversation will be less about access options across formats (especially as we already have complete coverage both on microfilm and online) than the value of the bound volumes. We want to have actual information ready for this conversation should it occur, including an approximation of exactly how rare these volumes are.

Do any of you know of a reasonably efficient way to ascertain holdings of *bound* copies of the NYT for certain years? Most everything I'm finding is holdings that say "Retained for X period until microfilm arrives". Am I missing some amazing tool or resource that might help me do this?