Digitizing Newspaper Archives

04/09/2025

Absolutely love reading about unique archive discoveries like this one - finding the photo from "The Shining"!

It had been lost for 45 years.

04/06/2025

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04/06/2025

This article is a reminder of why it's critical to digitally preserve local newspaper archives. It's why we started helping local US newspapers scan their bound volume archives decades ago.
https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/about-us/research-news/2025/preserve-local-newspaper-records-community-network/

Coventry University is bringing together experts, archivists and community groups to create a network to preserve the historical archives of local newspapers.

04/02/2025

A 5-year and nearly $9 million dollar video digitization project - pretty amazing work to bring this together.

“If you can think of something that happened between the mid-1950s and 1990, it’s probably in there."

03/20/2025

One historical society truly put its town on the map. Learn how Pacific Grove, California did it - https://conta.cc/4c6oVeT

Email from SmallTownPapers, Inc.   Contact us: 360.427.6300 [email protected]   Connect History to Locations       The Heritage Society of Pacific Grove, a nonprofit founded in 1975 to preserv

03/05/2025

How partnerships can expand and boost online archive collections.

The News Letter was first published in September 1737.

02/26/2025

We enjoy seeing an increasing number of educational institutions digitally preserving their newspaper and yearbook archives and making them accessible. This article about Tufts perfectly explains why this preservation is so important.

The date is Feb. 25, 2025 and you are reading the Daily Week edition of The Tufts Daily. But, have you ever wondered, ‘what were students reading on this day decades ago?’ On Feb. 25, 1986, the Daily reported that the trustees had increased Tufts’ undergraduate tuition...

02/19/2025

Fantastic to learn about new museum collections like one from Reed & Barton. Now you can explore designs, business records, photographs, and more from this iconic silver manufacturer—all in one place! https://tinyurl.com/2s3uu54y 🏛️📜

The brand new Reed & Barton Virtual Archive "brings the rich history of Taunton’s famed silver industry to audiences worldwide."

02/13/2025

Another great newspaper archive preservation story.

Printer-friendly version February 2025 ArticlesSan Diego History CenterBorrego SpringsDesert Media Holdings Inc.Borrego SunFunds sought to digitalize archived articles Source: San Diego History Center February 12, 2025 (Borrego Springs) - The San Diego History Center and Desert Media Holdings Inc, o...

02/10/2025

We love sharing stories of archives being preserved and made accessible for the community.

A news release from UE says the "Our Times" newspaper archive has been added to the UE Libraries' collection.

02/10/2025

If you have a historical or genealogical society looking for a place to make your historical collections online accessible, check out ArchiveInABox and see the organizations already taking advantage of free hosting - https://tinyurl.com/4arhmtkd

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02/05/2025

ArchiveInABox specializes in digitizing and making printed collections online accessible and searchable, but we love reading articles like this one - a fantastic digitization project involving music history. https://www.kwbu.org/news/2025-01-31/black-gospel-archive-receives-2-48-million-grant-to-add-oral-history-increase-space

The Black Gospel Archive at Baylor University is the largest digital collection of gospel music in the world. Now the Lilly Endowment has awarded the archive a $2.48 million grant to expand the archive.

02/05/2025

We love hearing about invaluable newspaper archives being preserved and made accessible in communities across the US like this one.

The newspaper championed issues of culture, equity and justice.

01/28/2025

We've been honored to work with several American Catholic newspapers to digitize and make their archives online accessible. We just ran across a great article about the Canadian Catholic Church taking their archives online, as well - https://www.catholicregister.org/digital-archive

01/23/2025

A great job making the case for digitizing archive collections...

Photo from Pexels.com: A black-and-white photo taken on the Hudson River in Yonkers, digitalized as a way to preserve Yonkers’ community history. Imagine sitting with your grandparents in Yonkers, listening to their vivid stories about the old neighborhood—the corner store that sold the best pen...

01/23/2025

Ran across this great guide for small libraries working to build a digital archive. It's something ArchiveInABox works on every day - helping organizations digitally preserve and provide access to historical collections. Read more at https://library-nd.libguides.com/digitalinitiatives/archivinglibraries or visit AIB at https://www.ArchiveInABox.com

01/21/2025

A free place for historical organizations (museums, historical societies, genealogical societies and more) to easily upload, organize, and make historical collections online accessible...and searchable! ArchiveInABox has it. https://www.archiveinabox.com/why-us.html