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[nafex] Re: Online AND Print



--- In nafex@egroups.com, "Christopher Mauchline" <mauch1@a...> wrote:
> I would love a searchable, electronic copy of Pomona, but I would 
> still want my paper copy.  I work in the computer industry - 
> electronic data is vunerable to loss from device failure,  
> format/technology change or organization failure (small example of 
> this:  I use (and will hang on to my last copy) of Bear Creek's 
> catalog for a description of apple varieties.  They're now out of 
> business.  If I had depended (if it had been available) on an 
> electronic copy I might not have that resource any more.)  
>

This is disconcerting news to say the least. I too have Bear Creeks 1999-2000 catalog here on my coffee table and consider it one of the most valuable resources available. 

I was planning on ordering some scionwood from them this year!

I have been back to the BearCreek website many times over the years (still under construction last I saw) and wrote to them recently... via e-mail and asked why they had not done more to develop it and put the catalog online. I did not receive any reply. Now I know why I guess.

Considering the number of other nursery seed and garden catalogs that have produced online versions... though I have no idea why Bear Creek has gone out of business... could it have anything to do with the fact that they did not put this valuable resouce online?

I would still like to see the catalog archived online... Otherwise all that great information IS LOST to everyone who never got the print version of the catalog. There is alot of great information in POMONA... I would hate to see it FOREVER LOST (to the world at large) because it did not produce a digital version.

That makes me wonder... does (or can) the library of congress preseve copies of digital publications? 

Tom


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