of ‘oldest college daily’
Important periods in the history of Yale will now be more accessible to scholars
and students through the University Library’s Yale Daily News Historical
Archive.
T H I S
The Yale Daily News (YDN) is the oldest college daily newspaper in the United
States, and has been covering student life at Yale and in New Haven for 130
years.
The library has now digitized key periods from the YDN including January 1878
to June 1879, the first year of the paper’s publication; the period covering
the two World Wars; the era of civil unrest, co-education and the Black Panther
trials from 1967 to 1970; and the early years of President A. Bartlett Giamatti’s
administration from 1978 to 1981. The library is working with a number of partners
to digitize the entire run of the YDN from 1878 to 2000. Content from October
2000 to the present is already available online at the YDN web site.
The YDN is usually published every weekday the University is in session, and
many of its editors and contributors have gone on to prominent careers in journalism
and public life, including Henry R. Luce, William F. Buckley, Garry Trudeau,
Calvin Trillin, Joseph Lieberman, Sargent Shriver, Lan Samantha Chan, Jacob
Weisberg and Samantha Power.
“The Yale Daily News is an essential primary resource for any study of
Yale University and its history and culture and a wonderful archive of student
life in general,” says University Librarian Alice Prochaska. “It
is heavily used by researchers from around the country and a digital and indexed
version will greatly enhance access and support scholarship.”
Readers using the Yale Daily News Historical Archive will be able to find full-page
views of the original newspaper, and will have the ability to zoom in on details;
conduct word, phrase or name searches across all digitized YDN issues; select
articles or photographs on a page; and print or download copies of articles.
Yale professor emeritus Gaddis Smith, who was chair of the YDN in 1953, says, “This
will be extremely important for everyone interested in Yale since 1878.” Smith
noted that paper copies of the YDN are rapidly deteriorating and those on microfilm
are difficult to use. The digitized newspaper archives will be cross-referenced
and indexed, making them far more searchable than previously possible, he notes.
Financial support for this initial phase of the project was provided by the
Oldest College Daily Foundation, Yale University Library and the Class of 1945W.
During the Reunion Weekends in May and June, librarians and former YDN editors
will demonstrate the Yale Daily News Historical Archive for alumni and visitors
in Sterling Memorial Library.
More information, including details of the years and issues covered, as well
as information on partners in this exciting project, can be found on the Yale
University Library’s website: www.library.yale.edu.
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