The Daily Bulletin Archive

Coincidental with Buffalo’s “Mark Twain in Buffalo Day,” E. H. Butler Library's Archives and Special Collections received notification of an approved $15,000 grant to begin digitizing Buffalo State’s microfilm editions of the Courier-Express newspaper. The grant is from the Western New York Library Resources Council’s  Regional Bibliographic Data Bases and Interlibrary Resources Sharing Program.

The first phase of this project will make available online, keyword-searchable editions of the Courier from October 1977 to September 1982, totaling roughly 99,450 pages. Phase one is expected to be completed by the end of the calendar year.

The Archives and Special Collections already maintains an index to the more than 1 million items in its physical article and images newspaper morgue; digitization of this material will lead to text-searchable remote access to the collection for students and other scholars 24/7.

“The Courier is our most regularly accessed collection," said grant manager and special collections archivist Hope Dunbar. "This is a monumental first step in making the full run of the Courier-Express newspaper available and accessible online for the local and national community. I can’t tell you how thrilled I am. This is part of a multiyear effort to shift the Archives and Special Collections to an increasingly digital model of archiving and retention of our historic resources.”