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From: Chris Marsden <Byway@compuserve.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 04:06:29 -0500
Subject: Re: Making sense (of) MP Bennett
> <<<Does that makes sense?>>>
> as much as ever :-)
Oh, bugger, I thought I had made some sense this time :-(
Pooh.
cj
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From: "Ian Boddison" <mbcx4ib1@mail1.mcc.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 11:04:33 BST
Subject: (Fwd) Newspaper Archives to be computerised
I have just picked this off the Manchester University Libary
distribution list.
It might be of interest to some of you.
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News heritage in peril
THE days of poring over yellowing newspaper files in a small
number of specialist locations could be numbered. Within five
years, if the Heritage Lottery Fund comes up with enough cash,
any newspaper ever printed in Britain will be accessible via
computer terminals in local libraries.
The pioneering scheme to save and digitise Britain's newspaper
heritage, Newsplan, is backed by a team of key figures from the
libraries and the newspaper industry, headed by Ann Matheson,
the keeper of printed books, Scotland. They need up to stlg14
million, first to photograph the archive and then to digitise
the microfilm.
It all started 12 years ago when 10 regional libraries banded
together under the aegis of the British Library newspaper
library to track down copies of every paper. They discovered
newspapers printed between 1820 and 1950 could be lost forever
because acid in newsprint causes paper to crumble.
Late last year, a stlg28,000 grant from the lottery fund supported
a feasability study for Newsplan. This has just concluded that
26 per cent of British newspapers are at risk, that is 3,460
titles or the equivalent of 1,700 miles of broadsheet pages.
George Westropp, chairman of the London Press Club, which is
acting as a forum for Newsplan, estimates that the main project
will cost between stlg12 and stlg14 million.
In March, the Newsplan team will apply again to the lottery
fund for support for about 75 per cent of the project's cost.
"As the fund financed our initial study, and Newsplan is the
only truly national heritage project before it at the moment,
we are very optimistic," says Dennis Griffiths, team member and
chairman of the British Library newspaper library committee. He
says the team is confident that libraries, the newspaper
industry, advertisers and suppliers will find the remaining
stlg3.5 million.
Over the next five years, with the necessary support, all
papers will be put on microfilm by newspaper libraries at
Colindale, Aberystwyth and Edinburgh, a difficult task with
old, crumbly papers. Then the microfilm will be scanned into a
digital format that is suitable for any form of future
technology.
"If all goes according to plan, we'll be up and running by
early autumn," says Griffiths. "Then we'll be on our way
towards a unique and vital achievement."
[For more information see http://www.earl.org.uk/magnet]
Guardian Online 15 January 1998
Dr.Alan Neville
John Rylands University Library
Oxford Road,
Manchester M13 9PP
England
Tel +44 161 275 7388
Fax +44 161 273 7488
Email A.F.Neville@Manchester.ac.uk
Cheers,
Bod
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From: howard.neal@which.net
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 21:16:17 +0000
Subject: Re: Somme geology was Re: Independent, Sat
:
> (B)
> The bridleway which runs below in the valley (which incidentally is shown as
> a road on the 1895 OS map underlying the geological map) is much drier, even
> though it is in the valley floor.
Which bridleway is this? What valley?
Puzzled of Newbury
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From: howard.neal@which.net
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 16:21:50 +0000
Subject: In the doghouse (test message)
> Howard...
> I'm trying to sort out a problem with the EMail system which corrupts my
> replies to your posts. Please could you put a test message onto the RoW
> list then send me the complete message, header included.
Will this do?
Regards,
Howard
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From: "Brian Pratt" <btp@freeuk.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 19:28:00 -0800
Subject: Change of email address
Hi all
Please note my change of email address from b.t.p@btinternet.com
to btp@freeuk.com
Brian Pratt ( GLASS[Lakes/Dales] & TRF member )
btp@freeuk.com
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From: Elwyn York <Elwyn@ey-eg.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 23:52:52 +0000
Subject: Weston Park 1998
Dear All
Does anyone out there want copies of the photos I took of Weston Park 1998,
as they will soon be leaving my web site. If you do, then let me know by
Wed 17th Feb 99 the latest.
Cheers
Elwyn
LR S3 '72 (Very Dented) Lightweight. [47 FL 06]
"Sub Aerodynamic Green Brick" ICQ: 17087824.
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From: "Bill" <bill@trail.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 00:30:33 -0000
Subject: Richard Marshall
> Richard, are you still on the list.
> If so please mail me direct as I have lost your email address
Did you get a reply Bod, if so 'hey Richard send me a line'.
I am asuming this is the same Richard Marshall TRF RoW officer.
Cheers, Bill.
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From: doghouse@cix.compulink.co.uk (Michael Dyer)
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 99 07:13 GMT0
Subject: Re: Evidence against the Lies
OK, so now we are going to go after the liars.
There are people on the List who have been to PIs. There are people on the
List who have read GLEAM letters in their local parrot-cage liner and
thought 'Hang ON'!.
What we need to do is to collate these into a file which can then be used
against them in any forum where they dare to stick their head. So think
about such instances, try and ignore the general tubthumping tone and the
aggression that they showed, strip it down to the basics.
1. Who was it.
2. In what forum did they say/print it?
3. When - as accurately as you can but within 200 years seems to be their
standard of accuracy, lets make it ours.
i say its time to kick ass, as my colonial friends would say. If we dont
get the show on the road NOW we will lose the lot without a murmur. Look
at what happened to the gun enthusiasts and they were a lot more organised
than we were.
I'll do the collation, you mail me the deatils. Pass this around.
73s and 88s
:-) Mick Dyer (doghouse@cix)
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