KC Public Library purchases newspaper archives for public use

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – Digitized archives from The Kansas City Star and The Kansas City Times have been bought by the Kansas City Public Library, the library introduced Wednesday.

The archive ranges from 1880 to in the present day with pictures accessible for all years besides 1991-2013. According to the library, customers will now have the flexibility to go looking the whole lot of each newspaper’s archives from any laptop.

Although the Kansas City Public Library now owns the archives, they’re presently positioned on NewsBank, a platform that’s searchable via the Library’s web site. That service permits for interacting with supplies by cropping, emailing, saving as a PDF or hyperlink, printing and enlarging.

“This is something we’ve looked at for several years,” stated Joel Jones, the Library’s director of library providers. “It’s important for the Kansas City Public Library to own these digital archives and provide access to them to our patrons, to residents of Kansas City.”

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