Digitization of Minnesota's Newspapers

In FY14-15, the newspaper team continued work on the newspaper hub, increasing functionality and improving the web interface. The test version of the newspaper hub is available on workstations at the Gale Family Library and also on the web at www.mnhs.org/newspapers. MNHS negotiated with the Department of Education to add approximately 275,000 pages of the historic Minneapolis Tribune to the hub. Work continues with the vendor to increase search speed, improve the appearance of search results and add user tools to make the hub more useful to researchers. By the end of FY15, we will have added more than 300,000 additional pages from titles published throughout the state. By the end of FY17, we expect to be delivering more than one million pages of newspapers and increasing our capacity to ingest and deliver 800,000 pages of newspapers currently published in Minnesota.