Is Herbertia online?

Tim Eck via pbs pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net
Sat, 09 May 2020 13:00:07 PDT
Herb said it would all be online shortly.

On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 3:39 PM Michael Mace via pbs <
pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote:

> I think several of us reached out to the IBS at various times. In 2013,
> soon
> after the IBS and its website shut down, I talked with Herb Kelly, the guy
> who had been in charge of it. He had saved a backup of the website (which
> had a lot of articles) and was very confident that they were going to
> restart the org and post everything themselves.
>
> Google Books has scanned some old issues of Herbertia, back to 1984. But it
> doesn't have permission from the IBS to expose the full text; all you can
> get is little snippets.
>
> Does anyone know Herb? I'll try pinging him again, but it might work best
> if
> someone has a personal relationship with him.
>
> By the way, I think we're in a similar situation right now with the
> Indigenous Bulb Association of South Africa. They had a great journal for
> many years, and I do not think Google has scanned it. I pinged them a
> couple
> of times about digitizing their journal. They seemed interested at first,
> and then stopped responding.
>
> It would be worth trying with them again, if someone has a strong contact
> there.
>
> You can lead a horse to water...
>
> Mike
> San Jose, CA
>
> _______________________________________________
> pbs mailing list
> pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net
> http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…
>
_______________________________________________
pbs mailing list
pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net
http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…


More information about the pbs mailing list