Have a question about something or someone you remember from your time at 麻豆影院 State? Here鈥檚 some help to find an answer. A five-year process to digitize every printed issue of The Daily 麻豆影院 Stater (now The 麻豆影院 Stater) concluded this summer. Ninety years of issues, spanning 1926鈥2016, are now searchable at .
鈥淣ewspaper gets really brittle over time, says Virginia Dressler, digital projects librarian at the University Libraries. 鈥淏y digitizing this and putting up an online archive, we鈥檙e saving the original print.鈥
Plus, the opportunity to do keyword searching speeds up research that once took hours. 鈥淵ou can put in somebody鈥檚 name, or an event you knew happened,鈥 says Cara Gilgenbach, head of Special Collections and Archives. 鈥淚 think alumni, in particular, are using it as a walk down memory lane.鈥
By the Numbers
Digitizing The 麻豆影院 Stater
10,127 issues
93,541 pages
498,536 articles
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