Jules Richardson wrote:
The museum's been offered a reasonable archive set
of Computer Shopper
magazines, but doesn't however really have the space to justify
taking/keeping them given the historical 'worth' and anticipated
demand for them as reference material.
Consideration's being given to just scanning them as an
electronic-only reference - question is, has this already been done
by anyone? There seems little sense in duplicating effort!
Some magazines (like Practical Electronics) offer subscribers an
electronic edition (or a CD with back issues). If Computer Shopper
have that available you might try just contacting them and seeing
if they've already got the data and whether they'd let you have a copy
as you are a museum ...
Does the museum have a dispensation to just go ahead and scan?
If not, wouldn't you have speak to them to ask for permission anyway ...
Antonio