[New-imc] ex TW : EEC - Disposal of Development archive - Press cuttings, press releases from late 1970s to early 90s

[Vickram Crishna]

This is a posting on one of our lists in India informing us about an 
archive available in central London (UK). I am taking the liberty of 
reposting it here since you may have contacts or members in or around 
London who could make use of this resource.
At 11:51 AM +0100 02/08/2002, "Peter D. O'Neill, Editor THIRD WORLD : 
EEC Features TV Radio" <tweecsisbyt at gn.apc.org> wrote:
>Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:51:13 +0100
>
>For space reasons we are going to have to dispose of some five large 
>filing cabinets worth of press cuttings covering a whole range of 
>issues between developed and developing countries.
>
>They are boxed into cardboard cartons.
>
>They are sorted into brown A4 folders by category (e.g. telecoms, 
>health and disability, nuclear, energy, bio-industry, 
>insurance,water, food aid, and also with most country headings 
>(e.g.supplements on countries from the Financial Times etc, from 
>Iran to Togo) development and aid etc etc.  There are a number of 
>reprots from this period such as printed annual reports from WB, 
>UNCTAD, WHO although many of those have already been disposed of.
>
>Most of this stuff is NOT on computer as most newspaper databases 
>only started in the late 80s to mid 90s as companies started 
>electronic outputting and they were just able to store that. Too few 
>have gone back and digitised their archives.
>
>It seems a tragedy for the cuttings to be destroyed - but we no 
>longer have use for it nor the space. We are more or less in central 
>London.
>
>There are also some 100 video VHS video recordings of broadcast TV 
>programmes touching many of these areas.
>Please pass the message around in case someone might be interested. 
>It represents a very useful resource for doctoral students and could 
>save them a mountain of research time, or departments etc.
>
>Another possiblity to save them is if there happened to be someone 
>who had storage space for them to be held so that there was more 
>time for potential users to take them later.
>
>Pete O'Neill
>Editor THIRD WORLD : EEC

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Vickram