Over 7 Million newspaper pages delivered

In amongst the processes of finalising our various contracts for the 2011-12 financial year, working on finalising the details of content for 2012-13, the fact that we’ve delivered the 7 Millionth newspaper page almost slipped my notice!

As a reflection of the efforts of the team, up to March this year, we’ve delivered over 1.5 million pages, the content from which (to my mind at least) continues to be varied and interesting. Some highlights for me from this last year include the emphasis on WW1 titles (as we approach the centenary of the War), the delivery of The Dawn Magazine (the first feminist newspaper), and our investigations into the digitisation and delivery of non-English language newspapers (in Estonian, Italian and German languages). The latter has not come without some birthing pains, but we’ve learned a whole lot about some of the challenges that are involved in this, and it would be exciting to see even more diversity in our newspapers!

The Dawn magazine cover

The Dawn magazine

Stay tuned for the release of details of titles that have been identified for digitisation in 2012-13 (It looks like there are approximateley 80 new titles to come), and content contributed from a range of organisations, including the Melbourne Library Services, the Stonnington History Centre, and a consortia of eleven NSW libraries (supporting digitisation of the Cumberland Argus).

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3 Responses to “Over 7 Million newspaper pages delivered”

  1. Thanks for all that you do. We use the digitised newspapers every single day, correct when we can, and thank our lucky stars for the National Library as often as possible. Looking forward to all the new titles and especially the Cumberland Argus!
    Emma Grahame
    editor, Dictionary of Sydney

  2. No worries! As another teaser for 12-13 titles, we’ve just had confirmation from Melbourne Library Services that they will be contributing the North Melbourne Gazette and the North Melbourne Courier.

  3. It would be fantastic if the various state editions of Truth newspaper could be identified for digitisation, all of the various editions have been microfilmed. With its muck-raking and invetigative approach to political scandals it is one of the few newspapers from the early and mid 20th century to cover in more detail some of the more ‘sordid’ aspects of Australian society, hence it is a great resource for Australian historians and would be even more useful if it was digitised!