Finally, digitizing the Yale Daily News has enabled the library to
produce a free, highly useful, and unique digitized resource for both
Yale University and other researchers. The expertise gained in this
project has enabled YUL staff to build on this success with other, more
complex, digital projects. YUL staff can now successfully digitize
varied material such as maps, annotated manuscripts and books. Mass
digitization of books may free libraries to concentrate on high quality
digitization of unique material that is present in nearly all public and
academic libraries. A newspaper digitization project can be an
excellent springboard for digitization of this diverse set of material