The 1980s—Preserving Our Scholarly Heritage

Abstract

The wide readership of the CSSR Bulletin positioned the publication as an excellent place to address pressing matters in the field. In a 1988 issue, Claude Welch sounded the alarm about the depreciating shelf life of library resources upon which scholars depend. In addition to a call to action, Welch shared about a collaboration between scholars and member group, the American Theological Library Association, to capture these works to fiche—a process that presages the book-scanning and pdfs upon which many of us depend.