Crafted by the Columbia University Library, this remarkable digital collection brings together hundreds of issues of the Columbia Spectator that document student life and academic activity from 1877 to the present day. The goal of this project is "to provide public resources for Columbia University history and to preserve the Spectator's past work." On the site, visitors can make their way through...

Developed as part of the online collections at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale's Morris Library, the Daily Egyptian Diversity News Index provides historical insight into the campus climate at this unique school. In 2006, Dr. Seymour Bryson, the associate chancellor for diversity, teamed up with several other colleagues to identify articles in the Daily Egyptian (the University's student...

The digitization of historically important and interesting newspapers continues apace, and this latest collection is quite a find. The Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection is a project of the History, Philosophy, and Newspaper Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library. Their first project is the digitization of select years from the Daily Illini, which is the student...

Back in 1991, the Digital Library and Archives (DLA) at Virginia Tech began to provide online access to local, regional, and international newspapers. It was an early digital library project, and it continues to provide access to a range of periodicals and transcripts of television news reports for local television stations in and around southwestern Virginia. On the site, visitors will find...

College newspapers can be a veritable treasure trove of information about the cultural and social life of a given institution, and the Cornell Daily Sun is certainly no exception. Recently, the Cornell University Library and the Daily Sun embarked on a new digitization project to provide online access to previous editions of the paper dating back to the year 1880. First-time visitors to the site...

What can you learn about a university from its student newspaper? Certainly it will capture the spirit of the time, the passions of the community, and of course, coverage of gridiron heroes. The Decaturian is one such fine daily and it documented life at Milliken University for many decades. This digital collection brings together issues from 1903 to 1951 and is a rich repository of information...

Every university newspaper tells a story about its community, warts and all. Duke University's student newspaper, The Duke Chronicle, depicts a slice of campus history from 1959 to 1970. This was a tumultuous time on campus with a range of student protests going on, along with desegregation and various cultural events. First-time visitors can read about the history of the Chronicle here as well as...

The recent past can often be overlooked by digital archive projects. Fortunately, that is not the case at the University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections group. Recently, they digitized four student newspapers, including the Independent, the Ledger, the Daily, and the Commons. The papers come from the main campus in Seattle, and the other branches in Tacoma and Bothell. Visitors can...