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/…