Have a question about something or someone you remember from your time at Kent State? Here鈥檚 some help to find an answer. A five-year process to digitize every printed issue of The Daily Kent Stater (now The Kent Stater) concluded this summer. Ninety years of issues, spanning 1926鈥�2016, are now searchable at .
鈥淣ewspaper gets really brittle over time, says Virginia Dressler, digital projects librarian at the University Libraries. 鈥淏y digitizing this and putting up an online archive, we鈥檙e saving the original print.鈥�
Plus, the opportunity to do keyword searching speeds up research that once took hours. 鈥淵ou can put in somebody鈥檚 name, or an event you knew happened,鈥� says Cara Gilgenbach, head of Special Collections and Archives. 鈥淚 think alumni, in particular, are using it as a walk down memory lane.鈥�
By the Numbers
Digitizing The Kent Stater
10,127 issues
93,541 pages
498,536 articles
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