Historical newspapers like the Wayne Weekly Signal and other early Main Line publications are being preserved in a public digital archive at Villanova University, writes Faith Scrivo for The Villanovan.

Villanova University’s Falvey Memorial Library has partnered with the Radnor Historical Society to digitize the documents.

“These digital partnerships enable us to make these historical collections discoverable and available to scholars wherever they live,” Millicent Gaskell, University Librarian, said. “We welcome researchers, historians and everyone interested in our shared past to peruse Falvey Library’s growing digital library to discover the ever-growing resources available there.”

Scanning the old issues of the Suburban will make them available to researchers all over the world, said Radnor Historical Society Board Member Jennifer Beacom.

Falvey Memorial Library began its digitization initiative in 2006.

The goal of the project is to scan and digitize images of printed materials and manuscripts to build online collections of historical documents and rare books and make them freely available on the Internet via Villanova University’s digital library.

Since then, the Library’s digitization projects have included a partnership with the American Catholic Historical Society, headquartered in Philadelphia and Independence Seaport Museum.

Read more about this newspaper digitization effort here.

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