This is a concern that keeps me awake at night, that and partially
collated unpublished texts preserved in microfilms and photocopies of
scattered and poorly known, hard to access manuscripts.
Rosane Rocher
Profesor Emerita of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
On 11/4/24 8:12 PM, Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY wrote:
Excellent suggestion, Jan. Including me, lots of scholars have several
unfinished projects which may never be completed or published, but lie
in an incomplete form. There should be a repository for such materials.
Madhav
Madhav M. Deshpande
Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies
Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore,
India
[Residence: Campbell, California, USA]
On Mon, Nov 4, 2024 at 3:58 PM Jan Kučera <[email protected]> wrote:
Dear all,
I am sure I am not alone with the experience of finding treasures
in archives, in personal papers and other collections of various
people from the past, often pioneers in the field.
Some of us even had the sad privilege to take over libraries and
collections of our departed colleagues and teachers. And from my
experience, there is one significant difference from the past:
people don’t write on paper anymore. The work is increasingly done
on computers, and this data is almost never available or
accessible to anyone else.
I would like to make an appeal to everyone who feels like they
have significant notes, drafts, or work-to-come they have spent
decades on, if you don’t want these to suddenly disappear, please
make provisions for someone to be able to pick it up or turn into
a treasure to be found by future generations.
Thank you and best regards,
Jan
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