Barbara Rauch <barbara.rauch@AUT.AC.NZ> wrote:

 > Has anyone thought to scan them into a digital repository?

Yes, this has been discussed here, but at the moment, as far as I
know, we're not doing this because there are so many other resources
for the digital repository, and only so many staff. Maybe in the future...

The ideal would be that the publisher would take care of the digital
archives, but for small organizations, particularly in the developing
world where Internet access may be intermittent or political changes
may send the organizations underground, it just isn't happening and
may not happen for a long, long time. As an example, when I accessed
the URL of a title I was given to catalog, the online newsletter of a
political party in an African nation, it had become a porn site.
There had been a regime change, and within a month, the political
party was disbanded or underground, and their former domain name had
been grabbed.

Kay Teel
Serials Catalog Librarian and Cataloger for the Arts
Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources
Phone: (650) 724-7346
kteel@stanford.edu