A better solution might be for all grottos, regions, etc.
that publish newsletters to send them to the Karst Information
Portal. They already process a number of regional publications
(including the NSS News and Texas Caver) and OCR the text so that it
is searchable. The NSS could theoretically do the same, but it seems
less likely to actually get done, at least in the short term. (The
NSS still does not have electronic records of all past NSS members,
for example.)
Mark
At 10:29 PM 3/20/2014, Butch Fralia \(CAVEDBA\) wrote:
That's not necessarily electronic where those not hanging around Huntsville
can access.
A good bunch of volunteers could probably digitize them in a couple of
years.
\
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-----Original Message-----
From: Preston Forsythe [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 9:00 PM
To: [email protected]; Mixon Bill; Cavers Texas
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] R.I.P. Speleo Digest
All Grotto newsletters should be available at the NSS Library in Huntsville.
If not then someone failed to send the NSS a copy.
Preston
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Logan McNatt" <[email protected]>
To: "Mixon Bill" <[email protected]>; "Cavers Texas"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 8:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] R.I.P. Speleo Digest
> Thanks for the news, Bill, which will mean something only to the older
> generations of cavers, many of whom probably still have their collection
> of Speleo Digests. They certainly were a good resource in the pre-digital
> years, and I'm glad to know that some of them are available online. Thanks
> for your part in producing several of them.
>
> On 3/20/2014 7:26 PM, Mixon Bill wrote:
>> I see from the minutes of the NSS Board of Governors meeting on March 15
>> that the Speleo Digest series, the last issue of which was for 2003, is
>> now officially dead. That's a shame, but it seems to acknowledge reality.
>> The series reprinted the best material out of grotto newsletters during
>> the title year, and was essentially _the_ library of American caves and
>> caving. It was started by the Pittsburgh Grotto in 1956. Production was
>> taken over by the NSS for the 1964 issue.
>>
>> I edited and prepared two or three issues back around 1970. The amount of
>> material in each issue has more than doubled since then; the 2003 has
>> almost 600 pages of three-column small type. On the other hand, I had to
>> retype everything on a typewriter and assemble the pages with scissors
>> and paste. Modern technology and the ability to request files for most of
>> the articles from the publishing grottos ought to have compensated, it
>> seems to me, but nevertheless getting it out proved to be beyond
>> volunteers. Of course as the years went by, the interest in working on an
>> issue years out of date decreased. (The 2003 didn't actually come out
>> until 2007.)
>>
>> Without the Speleo Digest, a lot of great cave explorations and maps
>> published locally are essentially inaccessible. Sigh. -- Bill Mixon
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