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Posted June 18, 2004.
19th-Century British Newspapers to Be Digitized
More than one million pages of 19th-century U.K. newspapers held by the British Library will be digitized and made available online through a program managed by the Joint Information Systems Committee, a collaborative group of agencies that fund educational technology projects. “British Newspapers 1800–1900” will allow full-text searching of such London papers as the Morning Chronicle and the Morning Post—which used such writers as Dickens, Thackeray, Coleridge, and Wordsworth—as well as regional and local news sources.
“The British Library is committed to making our collections accessible to as many people as possible,” said Ed King, head of the British Library’s newspaper collections. “Before the World Wide Web existed, readers had to visit the newspaper archive in Colindale to look at all aspects of the collections.”
The project, supported by a grant of £2 million ($3.7 million U.S.) from the Higher Education Funding Council, will make a final selection of titles it intends to digitize after consultation with universities and the newspaper industry this summer.
Posted June 18, 2004.
