Evan
@textfiles @internetarchive You Do It Electronics in Needham Mass. They ran for 75 years and are trying to find a home for their service manual collection. It's all going after dec 14
It comes with a filing cabinet!
Any interest? I want to save this collection going back to 1949 but I don't have the room.
Dec 14, 2024 at 1:24amWeb
Show threadJason ScottDec 14, 2024
@scribblesonnapkins @internetarchive yes, buy it and I'll take it
Show threadEvanDec 14, 2024
@textfiles @internetarchive Ok how does this all get to you? I live in Newton Mass.
Show threadJason ScottDec 14, 2024
@scribblesonnapkins @internetarchive I'll come up and get it from you. [email protected]
Show threadEvanDec 15, 2024
@textfiles @internetarchive Done. I will email soon.
Show threadSue GoganianDec 14, 2024
@scribblesonnapkins @textfiles @internetarchive there must be a museum that could archive it. Waltham Museum of Industry?
Show threadEvanDec 14, 2024
@Sgoganian @textfiles @internetarchive I mean it would great if it could live in a library after being scanned but that's even more shipping and I don't know who to reach out to there.
Show threadSue GoganianDec 16, 2024
@scribblesonnapkins @textfiles @internetarchive I'll post in a museum group
Show threadSue GoganianDec 16, 2024
@scribblesonnapkins @textfiles @internetarchive They would want the rights to the paper and the scans
Show threadEvanDec 16, 2024
@Sgoganian @textfiles @internetarchive Yes and that is the thing. While the paper in the hands of a museum might be more useful than a file online the massive central library is useful to the most people. I don't like risking everything on the future of one institution especially in this climate. I also had no idea the internet archive also stored physical stuff. However, I am well aware no one can match them technically & everyone knows to look there.
Show threadEvanDec 16, 2024

@Sgoganian @textfiles @internetarchive
I watched MIT & Harvard deaccession a lot of their journals because "pdf is good enough". Do any of the museums have an over abundance of physical space? The last time I went looking for the Boston Museum of Science Library it was as hidden as possible. Most members don't even know they have it. My experience of institutions suggests that means it's something they want to shrink.

Any word from Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation?

Show threadSue GoganianDec 17, 2024
@scribblesonnapkins @textfiles @internetarchive had a big event last weekend, will do it this week.
Show threadJason ScottDec 17, 2024
@Sgoganian @scribblesonnapkins @internetarchive I'm picking them up and I'm going to scan them and I'm probably going to keep them
Show threadEvanDec 17, 2024
@textfiles @Sgoganian @internetarchive Yeah looking at the few boxes I have opened there the Sam's photofacts are not doubt still under copyright even if they are orphaned works. So they likely have to stay with the Internet archive and I don't want to split up the boxes. As it is I am unsure how much of it if any was purchased before I got there.
Show threadSue GoganianDec 17, 2024
@scribblesonnapkins @textfiles @internetarchive heard from them, will keep you updated. If they're interested who do I connect them with?
Show threadEvanDec 18, 2024

@Sgoganian @textfiles @internetarchive

When I bought the stuff I told the guys at YDI that I was going to send it to the internet Archive (IA) and that if possible after that to a local museum. It wasn't part of the terms of sale but I want to stick to what I said.

In the frantic push to find a home for the stuff this was the best plan I could come up with. I hadn't considered the legalities that might require physical retention or even that IA did that (my own stupidity there).

Show threadEvanDec 18, 2024

@Sgoganian @internetarchive To me it says a lot that @textfiles reply was a direct yes and the museum is thinking it over. After the stuff leaves my hands I don't think I get a say in the matter. To be fair I am not the one doing most of the work of going through scanning and cataloging it all. Though I would volunteer if possible. I am also not (to my knowledge) taking on any of the legal risk of posting it online.

I continued this thread in the event IA considered it an option.

Show threadEvanDec 18, 2024

@Sgoganian @internetarchive @textfiles

So if the museum gets back to you please send them to me. Email in your DM.

Show threadSue GoganianDec 18, 2024
@scribblesonnapkins @internetarchive @textfiles I would not hold it against them that they didn't say yes right away, they're being responsible.
Show threadEvanDec 18, 2024

@Sgoganian @internetarchive @textfiles That's fair but I have to ask :
1. Would it be so bad if the internet archive kept the stuff so long as it's made public?
2. Even if I decided too how would I respectfully back out of this? Jason Scott is already trying to arrange to pick up these files from me.

I kind of feel like the plans are made at this point and the outcome is likely good even if not perfect.

Show threadSue GoganianDec 18, 2024
@scribblesonnapkins @internetarchive @textfiles CR Museum said no, and I think your solution is fine. The important thing is the materials wont be discarded
Show threadEvanDec 18, 2024
@Sgoganian @internetarchive The internet archive is famous for many things but discarding stuff is *not* one of them. @textfiles is still (rightly IMHO) unhappy with VCF for discarding a collection they had agreed to take on stewardship from him.