Out in the shelves this morning getting my hands dirty (figuratively and literally) as I looked at old journals for weeding. The more I think about the the usage of (or not!), access to and longevity of interest in academic journals, the more I really think their days are numbered. Scholarly journal articles seem to me to be the one thing that can be served electronically much more easily. Access is easier, hopefully usage would improve, and although we've not really tested the limits of digital storage of archives, it seems it would be easier to keep things historically without such pressure on space (or tattiness!).

Still, it was fun whilst browsing to stumble across a glossy old inhouse newsletter from TheOldPlace's business school. Sidetracked for a few minutes into solving a mathematical brainteaser on one of the pages.

The final straw, though, for how I was feeling about the old journals though was when I turned round rather suddenly and really banged my elbow rather nastily on a bit of metal shelving. Still, hurts painfully several hours later.