Dear SERIALST readers,

 

Putting a cash value on a resource such as this can be at variance with the educational value.  I already wrote privately to Melissa, but Judith's post, in particular "I wonder why they have been kept all these years since they are not needed for research?"  prompts me to forward part of my message to all readers.  To Melissa I wrote:

 

"I suggest that, whatever becomes of these volumes, you arrange for a display of them, and insure that local school students get to see them.  This is based on an experience I had in 1973 when working in my first library job, the City of Liverpool (England). I was assigned to their newspaper library, which had huge bound volumes of the local paper - three months’ worth bound together - from about 1900, and stretching down through ranges.  For the first time in my life, I got a breathtaking sense of "looking back through time".  And of course, teachers can talk about the role of newspapers back in the days before radio and TV--not to mention Google and Facebook ☺"

 

You won't likely get that experience from a microform or electronic version.

 

Sincerely - Ian