A lack of funding and staffing was another concern. Any efforts
towards creating a digital collection would have to be inexpensive and
make use of staff and resources the library already possessed.
However, to truly understand to physical condition of the
newspaper clippings file, and the challenges that would arise once
digitization began, one must understand the collection process of
gathering the original newspaper clippings. While no documentation
exists, the library postulates that even back to the 1930s, a library
member would skim the daily local papers from around Southeast
Louisiana for any mention of LSU School of Medicine, and its faculty,