Taxacom: [KU SUSPECT SPAM] reprints

[Robert Zuparko]

As someone who treasures my own reprint collection, it pains me to tell you
to prepare to toss the vast majority into the recycling bin. Declining
resources available to museums and life science institutions means adopting
the most cost effective measures. And acquiring, cataloguing and finding
the storage capability for paper reprints is an additional cost that these
institutions just can't afford, when there is so much literature now
available electronically. I had the sad job of trying to salvage the
reprint collection of two organizations - in one case I was lucky to
salvage 50%, and in the other, almost nil.

That said, if you publish the subject matters involved, you might find
someone who might be interested in a part of the collection, but I would be
surprised if you manage to save it all.

-Bob Zuparko

On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 7:34 PM Frederick W. Schueler via Taxacom <
taxacom at lists.ku.edu> wrote:

> Taxacomers,
>
> We have received 115 Rubbermaid bins of the paper files and documents of
> a deceased colleague. This colleague was sort of semi-estranged from his
> institution, and we're hoping to get the institution to take back his
> correspondence and institutional files, but there is a huge collection
> of reprints, dating back to the 1950s, and we wonder what we should plan
> to do about these.
>
> I'm not necessarily asking for advice, but just stories about how others
> have dealt with massive collections of reprints.
>
> fred.
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