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Abstract
Over fifty years ago an historian and a library director traveled the back roads of Kentucky (USA) with a portable microfilm camera, two lights, and a dream of preserving Kentucky’s newspapers. From their ambitions arose a successful newspaper preservation program at the University of Kentucky Libraries (UKL). Now in its sixth decade, the program has developed a new way of preserving contemporary born-digital newspapers. This paper explores some of the people and events behind the early success of UKL’s program, as well as an in-depth look at the development and functionality of Paper Vault: a largely automated, in-house process delivering and preserving Kentucky’s born-digital contemporary newspapers.
Document Type
Presentation
Publication Date
8-16-2015
Repository Citation
Terry, Kopana and Weig, Eric, "Preserving Kentucky’s Newspapers: Analogue Beginnings to Digital Frontier" (2015). Library Presentations. 137.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/libraries_present/137
Notes/Citation Information
A paper presented at the 2015 IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Cape Town, South Africa.
Copyright © 2015 by Kopana Terry and Eric Weig
This work is made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/