Throughout the summer, the McGill University Library digitization team will upload 90 years of the student newspaper, the McGill Daily, to Internet Archive. Starting with the first issue published on October 2, 1911, the students are uploading more than 9,000 issues up to 2001, at a rate of a few hundred issues each day.
When I checked the collection yesterday, more than 3,200 issues had been uploaded to the McGill Student Publications collection on Internet Archive.
The McGill Student Publications collection is available on Internet Archive, archive.org.
One edition that interested me was the March 1915 War Contingent Supplement that includes several photos of McGill’s undergraduates, graduates, and alumni who were “at the front or on the way to the front,” photos of the McGill General Hospital officers, a roll of honour, and an article about McGill’s Battalion.
The students started the project last December when they digitized more than 50 rolls of microfilm. In January, they collected the 60,000+ files into PDFs and ran optical character recognition to make the newspapers searchable.
The McGill Student Publications collection comprises a variety of publications from 1875 to 2001. The chief long-standing student newspaper at McGill, The McGill Daily, was founded in 1911.
According to the McGill University blog, “This project is part of larger project to showcase the material that has been published by McGill students.”
When the students have finished uploading all of the issues of the McGill Daily, they will start uploading the predecessor publications that date back to 1873: McGill (University) Gazette (1873-1890), the McGill Fortnightly (1892-1898), the McGill Outlook (1898-1907) and the (McGill) Martlet (1908-1911). They also plan to add the already digitized McGilliad (1930-1931) and the McGill Fortnightly Review (1925-1926).
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