Yale Daily News digitization

[Benjamin Zimmer]

The digitization of the Yale Daily News is underway, and a good deal
of it is already available online:

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http://images.library.yale.edu/digitalcollections/yaleDailyNews.aspx
The Yale Daily News Historical Archive
Material to be digitized: 123 years of the Yale Daily News from 1878
through 2000. In phase one of the project, 21 selected years of
publication have been digitized, totaling nearly 25,000 pages: January
1878 – June 1879 (the first year of publication), September 1913 –
June 1919 (World War I), September 1940 – June 1948 (World War II,
funded by the Yale Class of 1945W), January 1967 – May 1970 (the
radical '60s), and September 1978 – May 1981 (the early years of the
Giamatti administration). The text of digitized material is fully
indexed and keyword searchable.
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The Phase One material has some good stuff in it (and the search
functionality seems decent). They say they've digitized about 25,000
pages out of a total of 135,000 pages, but they're missing some key
periods (like the "hot dog" years).


--Ben Zimmer

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