Have a question about something or someone you remember from your time at 蹤獲扦? Heres some help to find an answer. A five-year process to digitize every printed issue of The Daily 蹤獲扦r (now The 蹤獲扦r) concluded this summer. Ninety years of issues, spanning 19262016, are now searchable at .
Newspaper gets really brittle over time, says Virginia Dressler, digital projects librarian at the University Libraries. By digitizing this and putting up an online archive, were saving the original print.
Plus, the opportunity to do keyword searching speeds up research that once took hours. You can put in somebodys name, or an event you knew happened, says Cara Gilgenbach, head of Special Collections and Archives. I think alumni, in particular, are using it as a walk down memory lane.
By the Numbers
Digitizing The 蹤獲扦r
10,127 issues
93,541 pages
498,536 articles
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