Watch and Learn: Value-Added! Digitizing your Community’s Historic Newspapers

Historic newspapers hold information about past people, places and events. This important community history is often not recorded in any other source. The Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (CHNC), with its 4.8 million pages of historic Colorado news, is a great resource for your community. Undertaking a digitization project can often be daunting and expensive. The CHNC team at the Colorado State Library works to make this process as simple as possible.

In this pre-recorded video you will learn:

The benefits of free online access to historic newspapers

Who the CHNC partners are and how content is funded

pie chart: CHNC Content funding. 91.8% Community Supported; 6.2% NDNP; 2% IMLS

The type of content and the digitization process

Who the CHNC team is and how we help with the process

Key CHNC features and tips for navigating the site

Other historic newspaper resources

****If you have questions please don’t hesitate to reach out to me, Leigh Jeremias, jeremias_l@cde.state.co.us.