The student newspaper CM Life and its
predecessors have been a part of the CMU campus since 1919. Recently additional
issues have been brought online in Clarke Historical Library's digital
repository, expanding the run up through June, 2016. The preservation
microfilming unit of Clarke first brought issues online back in 2013 including
Central Normal Life (1919-1927), Central State Life (1927-41), and Central
Michigan Life (1941-98). This was accomplished by taking microfilmed issues of
the newspapers through the scanning process in order to digitize them. Now you can
find all of the digitized issues available via the CMU Digital Collections.
Whether you do a single search that covers
the entire run or zero in on a time period, each issue appears as an individual
PDF file which presents the newspaper exactly as published. Issues can be
searched individually too. Additionally,
the page content pane displays plain text, which aids researchers with
transcriptions.
The student newspaper project was the first
newspaper digitization project undertaken by the Clarke. Since the original
project in 2013, upgraded software provides an improved user experience to CMU
digital collections which include Digital Michigan Newspapers, the Digital Michigan
Newspaper Portal, CMU History, CMU Scholarly & Creative Works, Clarke
Digital Collections, and the Historical Soo Locks Images. By hosting the
newspaper collection, Clarke qualified for participation in the National
Digital Newspaper Project, a partnership between the Library of Congress and
the National Endowment for the Humanities.
With
1,714 newly added issues including 14,700 pages, CMU's recent past is a near as
your keyboard.
