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    You could contact the department head/chair under these circumstances, I think. Or is there some reason your original message didn't go through?
    – Buffy
    Commented Jun 25 at 11:42
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    Or contact the library of the university. They often keep such resources and are unlikely to ignore you.
    – Buffy
    Commented Jun 25 at 11:50
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    Have you talked to your librarian? They are pretty good at tracking stuff down.
    – Maarten Buis
    Commented Jun 25 at 11:54
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    As noted by @MaartenBuis, something like this would be the highlight of the summer for a good research librarian. Let the professionals work on it.
    – Jon Custer
    Commented Jun 25 at 12:31
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    To be clear, I have done this - I was looking for a report from a foreign entity from the early 1960s, often referenced back then for charged particle bunching techniques. My local research librarian found one of the few (out of several hundred) remaining copies that had been provided to universities in my country at the time. I scanned it to PDF and OCR'd it, and returned the physical copy and the file to the institution that provided it. But the hard work was done by the librarian.
    – Jon Custer
    Commented Jun 25 at 15:07