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The Campus Newspaper— From Newspaper to Digital Archive--the Libraries’ Role and Responsibilities Debora Cheney, The Larry and Ellen Foster Communications Librarian and Head, Library Services to World Campus/PSU Online The University Libraries The Pennsylvania State University 3/13/2014 Presentation: IFLA http://www.libraries.psu.edu/historicalcol legian/ 1
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The Campus Newspaper—From Newspaper to Digital Archive--the Libraries’ Role and Responsibilities
Debora Cheney, The Larry and Ellen Foster Communications Librarian
and Head, Library Services to World Campus/PSU Online
The University Libraries The Pennsylvania State University
3/13/2014
Presentation: IFLA http://www.libraries.psu.edu/historicalcol
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WHY DIGITIZE A CAMPUS NEWSPAPER: THE BIG PICTURE
“Eyes that are forever young”
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“…BECAUSE STUDENT JOURNALISM IS SURELY A FIGURE OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY…”—THE FREE LANCE, APRIL 1, 1887
Campus Life—World Events
WHY DIGITIZE PENN STATE’S CAMPUS NEWSPAPER: THE CONTENT PICTURE
“Eyes that are forever young”
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Published Continuously 1887-to date
• The Free Lance, (monthly) April 1887–April 1904
• The State Collegian, (weekly) Sept. 28, 1904 to June 10, 1911
• The Penn State Collegian, (semi-weekly and weekly) September 28, 1911 to August 2, 1940
• Collegian, (daily) July 3, 1943-June 21, 1946
• The Daily Collegian (daily) 1940-to date
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1887
1908
1911
1938
1938
1939
1939
1940
Dec.9,1941
1950
1963
1965
1966
1966
1974
1978
1980
1981
1986
1996 Website
Website 2011
HISTORY OF THE COLLEGIAN PRESERVATION AND ACCESS
Binding, Microfilm, and Index Cards
Subject access yesterday:
• Card file in Special
Collections • Some handwritten • Indexed names and
events considered important at the time
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GETTING OUR FOOT IN THE DOOR
From Microfilm to Scanning to Searchable Images
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100 Years in 4 Projects
Summary of the Historical Digital Collegian scanning projects: • Phase I: 1887-1940 (FY 03/04)--16,332
pages (Available to 6/24/2004) • Phase II: 1941-1955 (FY 04/05)--48,960
pages (Available 6/28/2005) • Phase III: 1956-1976 (FY 05/06), 29, 916
pages (Available 7/14/2006) • Phase IV: 1976-1987 (FY 06/07), 37,428
pages--(available 1/31/2008) The Total Pages, 132,736 Total Cost: $178, 541.00 Average cost per page $1.35
A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING (MOU)
From Microfilm to Scanning to Searchable Images
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THE FINAL NEGOTIATIONS, 1989-PRESENT
The Collegian Online and the Daily Collegian challenges
Editing, Correcting, and Blocking Content: Final
Negotiations
• Slightly different values
• Collegian inclined to err on side of the “student”
• Libraries wanted to preserve the record “in tact”
• Required well-developed guidelines on how Collegian, Inc. would respond to specific situations
• Two formats being “published”
Preserving the Record…
Reporting or Content which:
• includes factual errors
• demonstrates an ethical violation
• reflects poorly on the person or in which the ultimate outcome of the adjudication was not reported
• is plagiarized or fabricated
• violates copyright law or license agreements
“The Libraries will…
“consider requests to block online content from readers/researchers where libel, copyright, or other legal issues may be a consideration.”
Conclusion
