British Library newspaper archive for disposal

[Andrew Jameson]

Any American libraries interested?
PLEASE RE-DIRECT TO YOUR LIBRARY
Andrew Jameson
Chair, Russian Committee, ALL
Languages and Professional Development
1 Brook Street, Lancaster LA1 1SL UK
Tel: 01524 32371  (+44 1524 32371)

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From: Andrew Jameson <a.jameson at dial.pipex.com>
To: east-west-research <east-west-research at mailbase.ac.uk>; russian-studies <russian-studies at mailbase.ac.uk>
Subject: British Library destroys Russian archive?
Date: 09 August 2000 17:59

>From Johnson's Russia List 4447 9 August 2000
Act NOW if you want to keep this resource.
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#7
BRITISH LIBRARY'S RUSSIAN NEWSPAPER ARCHIVE IS GIVEN AWAY
ITAR-TASS

London, 8th August: One of the world's largest libraries - the British
Library - has started destroying some of its newspaper archives. The
richest collection of pre-Revolutionary Russian newspapers is among those
threatened, the British Library's senior official, [?Bavna] Taylor, told
ITAR-TASS on Tuesday [8th August].

She said her repeated offers to hand the collection over to Russia for free
were unheeded by Russia's leading libraries, including the St Petersburg
Central Library.

Taylor said that any Russian organization interested in obtaining Imperial
Russia's newspaper collection starting from 1900 was free to contact the
British Library by fax: 0044-020-7412-7390.

The archives which are to be destroyed include 60,000 foreign newspapers
dated from 1870 onward.

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Andrew Jameson
Chair, Russian Committee, ALL
Languages and Professional Development
1 Brook Street, Lancaster LA1 1SL UK
Tel: 01524 32371  (+44 1524 32371)

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