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Kent State University Libraries Releases 1970s Daily Kent Stater Online
Posted Feb. 23, 2015Kent State University’s Special Collections and Archives department announces the launch of the digital edition of the 1970s Daily Kent Stater. This online, full-text searchable collection is the result of months of collaborative efforts, and will enable University Libraries to provide exciting new research opportunities to users all over the world. The Digital Daily Kent Stater archive, available at www.library.kent.edu/dks, now includes all issues from the 1940s, 1960s and 1970s.
Researchers and the curious alike will no longer have to come in-person to view print versions of this legacy-defining decade at Kent State. The university that existed in December 1969 and the one that emerged in January 1980 were worlds apart. Now users everywhere can see this transition for themselves in almost 17,000 pages of campus history. Each page of the Daily Kent Stater was scanned at high resolution and made available for anyone with an Internet connection. Users have the option to browse by date, search the entire run of the 1970s for names and keywords or simply read through the paper day by day.
Another new resource available within the Digital Daily Kent Stater site is crowd-sourced text correction. The optical character-recognition process that most text-based digital projects employ is not perfect in correctly identifying each and every character on a scanned page of text. Now users can help clean up any full-text errors they encounter by participating in this crowd‐sourced correction process. User account set up is easy and any corrections made will help future users access more accurate information and execute more successful searches.
This release of the 1970s Daily Kent Stater underscores University Libraries’ continuing commitment to provide first-class materials and research opportunities both in-person and online. In the coming year, Daily Kent Stater issues from the 1950s and 1980s also will be available as University Libraries works toward the goal of providing digital access to the entire run of the campus newspaper.