UM-Flint Archive Collaborates to Digitize Flint's Historical Black Newspapers
April 26, 2024
April 26, 2024
FLINT, Michigan, April 26 -- The University of Michigan-Flint issued the following news:
Newspapers are notoriously difficult documents to preserve. Newsprint is, by definition, a low-cost and non-archival paper. That means it's all too easy for the history contained in those newspapers - particularly smaller publications without the resources to house a dedicated archive - to be lost.
"Unless they were microfilmed or someone digitized them, chances are historical . . .
Newspapers are notoriously difficult documents to preserve. Newsprint is, by definition, a low-cost and non-archival paper. That means it's all too easy for the history contained in those newspapers - particularly smaller publications without the resources to house a dedicated archive - to be lost.
"Unless they were microfilmed or someone digitized them, chances are historical . . .