Digitizing Newspapers
SAN JOSE—San Jose State University’s student newspaper,
Spartan Daily, is digitalizing their past news issues to an online database.
This collaboration between SJSU’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications
and Martin Luther King Library is taking over 77,000 pages of news, dating back
to 1934 and digitizing them into SJSU’s ScholarWorks database.
This $13,000 project has now allowed students to view past
articles as PDFs and can use keywords to search through the archive of
different news issues. The project was funded by The Jack and Emma Endowment
Fund, who has acquired the money from typesetting and printing the Spartan
Daily in the past.
Tim
Mitchell, journalism lecturer and design adviser said, “If the Andersons were
still alive, I think they would be feeling fulfilled that we were preserving
the newspaper for the world to see.”
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