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Is there an organization or "society" that collects older electrical engineering lit & specs?

Tech data.
Technical papers.
Mostly Power and Controls (otherwise not electronic).
Mostly 40's thru 70's (maybe)

I also can dig out boxes of 80's and 90's IEEE serial publications.

Any use to libraries?
Museums of "antique engineering"? (paper isn't as glamorous as bakelite :) )



I didn't find info from searches, such as:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Collects+wants+Organizations+|+Museums+Antique+Technical+|+Engine
ering+%7C+IEEE+Literature+%7C+Publications+%7C+%22Tech+Data%22++
http://www.google.com/search?q=Collects+|+Accepts+|+Donate+~Organizations+|+~Museums+~
Antique+%7C+Historic++%7ETechnical+%7C+Engineering+%7C+IEEE+%7ELiterature+%7C+%7EPublications+%7C+
%22Tech+Data%22++-Computer++-software+-furniture+-used
 
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Al

Jan 1, 1970
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Tech data.
Technical papers.
Mostly Power and Controls (otherwise not electronic).
Mostly 40's thru 70's (maybe)

I also can dig out boxes of 80's and 90's IEEE serial publications.

Any use to libraries?
Museums of "antique engineering"? (paper isn't as glamorous as bakelite :)
)



I didn't find info from searches, such as:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Collects+wants+Organizations+|+Museums+Ant
ique+Technical+%7C+Engine
ering+%7C+IEEE+Literature+%7C+Publications+%7C+%22Tech+Data%22++
http://www.google.com/search?q=Collects+|+Accepts+|+Donate+~Organization
s+%7C+%7EMuseums+%7E
Antique+%7C+Historic++%7ETechnical+%7C+Engineering+%7C+IEEE+%7ELiterature+%7C+
%7EPublications+%7C+
%22Tech+Data%22++-Computer++-software+-furniture+-used

I tried to give my collection of IEEE pubs. to a local engineering
college library. The librarian was not too thrilled with the idea. Since
I have a social contact with the President of the institution, he
persuaded her to accept them. I wonder if they wound up in the dumptster.

Al
 
(thanks for both persons' replies)

Gerald Newton said:
I am sure the University
of Alaska will take them and pay the postage.

If I adopt (a guess at) the libraries' perspective, i'd think they may have "holes" in their collectoins. And so, they'd want
to know what i have (which means i'd need to do some basic assessment: date ranges of serials, etc. The stuff is
disorganized.)

i suppose i could begin by phoning some university libraries.
 
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