Frisian newspaper best practice at LIBER conference
At the preservation session of the recently held LIBER conference of European research and national libraries (1-5 July, Istanbul), Eddy van Noord of the Frisian newspaper "Leeuwarder Courant" presented his paper as the "best preserved and best disclosed newspaper in the world". Van der Noord described the remarkable public/private partnership which enabled the digitisation of the newspaper. He impressed his audience with his use statistics: since the newspaper went online in October 2007, more than 15 million page views were counted and 500.000 unique visits. The newspaper is available free of charge. Additional services include a printing-on-demand facility for books on whatever subject is of interest to the user.
The newspaper is currently discussing long-term archiving possibilities with the KB, the national library of the Netherlands.
