The school’s library just received nearly $400,000 of grant money to digitize 100,000 pages of microfilm from newspapers between 1836 and 1922. Choosing which pages make the cut will be up to a statewide selection committee.
“Part of the process too is going to be looking into our microfilm archives, what we have, the quality of the microfilm, what kind of shape it’s in,” says MacLennan.
Digitization will start in early 2011 and should take about 10 months to complete.
via teleread.com