That Time-Life "Decades" series is more than 20 years old. Newspaper microfilm is generally held permanently.
Yes, I used them in the late 1980s-early 1990s, when I was doing research for theater costume classes. I guess the only hazard is that, as they are so old, some libraries might have decided to get rid of them! Ann Wass -----Original Message----- From: Mary + Doug Piero Carey <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, Mar 29, 2010 7:57 am Subject: [h-cost] library sources Whether that's so varies greatly from library to library, but even if true in your area, the type of thing Ann is talking about would have been purchased long ago. That Time-Life "Decades" series is more than 20 years old. Newspaper microfilm is generally held permanently. Costume history books rarely get discarded even when we ought to. None of which negates the problem of turning those images into electrons, of course. Mary, the Periodicals librarian On 3/29/2010 7:40 AM, Denise B. said > As for the public library, I'd be surprised if they*were* there - even in > the larger public library in the university town. Public libraries spend > very little of their budget on non-fiction these days. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
