Courier digitization project

If you've ever gotten seasick scrolling through a roll of microfilm looking for something in an old newspaper, or worse yet, had to flip through dusty, crumbling bound volumes of the real thing, you'll love this.

A project to digitize several decades of the defunct Urbana Daily Courier newspaper could turn out to be a test bed for easily searchable, computerized versions of a "newspaper of record" for every county in Illinois, all accessible via the Web.

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