YEP! Pretty sure all Popular Electronics were online? Bill.... Yes the 'for profit' model diminished due to online scanned holdings. It also diminished the value of some publications also as many people are OK with having a digital copy and do not have the urge or need to have a hardcopy on file. PAPER is still king here though as it offers us the best images for use in display as we photograph or scan the printed artwork and not deal with compression. There may even come a point where I have to direct a thinning of the library. Even now, some things that we have multiple copies of or multiple sets of are being shared out. Thinking back on my young days and the love of publications... Heh! I can't tell you how many copies of Popular Electronics, Electronics Illustrated and Electronics World and others I read in class with a text book in front of it to make the teacher thing I was really interested in what they were teaching! Neighbors that were in the engineering and science careers were a steady supply of great higher level publications that many of them would trash every week... and what wonderful reader service cards all of these publications could be used to bring in on some days a 2 foot stack of mail ... much to my mother's chagrin who had to sort out the few pieces of family mail that were in the stack. All family cars ( and a few neighbor cars too) had 'stashes' of mags in the trunk .... "sure mom what to stop and go shopping..." Let me get something out of the trunk....." Although scanned stuff is useful there is still nothing like curling up in an arm chair (or in this story a car seat) and reading the paper issues! Ed# www.smecc.org (extra spaces included to authenticate message) In a message dated 12/13/2018 7:45:35 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [email protected] writes: <snip it all>
Thus electronic storage / scanning is probably the best alternative all else considered. Everyone here can hope another like-minded soul will be there to do what needs to be done when opportunity awaits I saved a healthy run of early popular electronics mags from the wilmington, delaware library a few years ago. If I haddn't randomly happenend to have been there... I assume pop electr are all online, but ultimately it's about cost benefit of storage. As far as places like ManualsPlus and other for-profit libraries, many I am sure were killed in part by free digital copies on the web.. i.e. we who archive and post copies for free have our role in what became of the for-profit library business. I remember Jason Scott was very involved in rallying volunteers to save what could be saved at ManualsPlus, a lot was thus saved by Jason. Some of it passed through vcfed.org club I think. Bill
