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OGDEN — Some 43,000 pages of Weber State University's newspaper were unbound, scanned and indexed for an online archive.
"I think the most important thing was trying to put together a history of Weber State," Jamie Weeks, associate curator of Archives and Digital Collections said.
A staff of six worked painstakingly to archive all available issues of the school's newspaper over three months. Weeks said many of the oldest editions were bound together in large books, likely the only form of archiving they had back in the early 1900s.
"The amount of glue that was on them was phenomenal," Weeks said. "That was the hardest part."
In addition to providing a history of the school, Weeks says articles show how major news events affected people on campus and in the nearby community.
"In 1943, all of the men except six were drafted for war," Weeks said. "That impact had to be devastating to the campus."
During the 1960s, students could be seen protesting the Vietnam war on campus.
"We felt like through the newspaper that this was politically a pretty active campus in the 60s and 70s," Weeks said.
The project was made possible through a $35,000 Library Services & Technology Act grant. The back issues are now available online and are searchable. A few years were missing, between 1935-37.
