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

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.

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Sounds like you have a very valuable collection. I am sure the University of Alaska will take them and pay the postage. I used to get old papers from the Engineering Societies Library in New York City, but they closed. They would find just about whatever you needed and fax it to you for a price. For instance, while researching ampacity I asked for the Simmons paper from

(thanks for both persons' replies)

"Gerald Newton" in news:fPqdnbVwa5UHe1nYnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:

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.