{"id":10693,"date":"2025-11-15T11:06:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T11:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/blog\/?p=10693"},"modified":"2025-12-30T11:06:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T11:06:01","slug":"how-you-help-with-the-digitisation-of-nineteenth-century-theological-journals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/blog\/how-you-help-with-the-digitisation-of-nineteenth-century-theological-journals\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unfinished Task: How You Can Help with the Digitisation of Nineteenth Century Theological Journals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last February I wrote a post about the Loss of Print Journals from Academic Libraries<\/a>. In it I noted how libraries are becoming increasingly dependent upon electronic databases, a development which is generally welcomed, but may have some negative consequences, especially for those who are not affiliated to an academic institution. Since the end of July I have been travelling the country visiting various libraries in order to compile a list of journals that were still in need of digitisation and assess the availability of hard copies. What I have found from this survey and from conservations with librarian colleagues over the last few years has caused me some concern. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While modern journals are now easily accessible digitally, there are many older journals that have not yet been scanned. Of greater concern is the fact that it is becoming more and more difficult to access hard copies to scan. This is not because my circle of librarian contacts are unwilling to loan copies – am extremely grateful to those who have entrusted these valuable resources to me for digitisation. For many of the nineteenth century journals complete sets are now extremely rare and so it is necessary to borrow volumes from several sources in order to create a complete digital collection. The problem is that these collections are being disposed of and so the pool of resources available for scanning is shrinking at an alarming rate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reasons why nineteenth century journals are being lost from libraries: <\/h3>\n\n\n\n