The Future of the California Digital Newspaper Collection Is in Jeopardy

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andsoitis · 7h ago

> Many readers have written to J. since then, saying how wonderful it was to find their parents’ wedding photos, articles about their grandfather’s deli or their synagogue’s groundbreaking, and announcements of their bar or bat mitzvah — including one 84-year-old who was surprised to find her own bat mitzvah notice from 1949.

And

> its 2024-2025 budget was slashed to nothing by the state, its major funder.

It is hard to argue that those examples of countent are worth asking taxpayers to fund. Surely there are better examples from J that are worth asking the state (and hence taxpayers) to fund the preservation of.

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The Future of the California Digital Newspaper Collection Is in Jeopardy

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