Digitisation of Newspapers

http://www.flickr.com/photos/32104790@N02/4051917129/ As someone who spent hours and hours in the Newspaper archives at Colindale, this is exceptionally good news. It’s also interesting to see that the documents are not being scanned simply as electronic-paper, but there are plans to use that digital information to create an ‘encyclopedia of memory’, a ‘national memory’. Interestingly, the project is […]

Moving Words

“Cheerless and drab but ‘full of amazing stuff’. The British Library Newspapers collection at Colindale is moving and also becoming increasingly digitised. Huw Richards wonders if researchers will miss the feel of the paper beneath their fingers // The journey to the far reaches of the Northern Line’s Edgware branch always did feel rather like […]