British Library digitizing 40 million newspapers
AP – “The British Library said Wednesday it was digitizing up to 40 million pages of newspapers, including fragile dailies dating back three and a half centuries. Once digitized, the British newspapers documenting local, regional and national life spanning to the 1700s will be fully searchable and accessible online, the national library said.”
Such a shame they’re making it a paid site, unlike what the Australian National Library is doing via Trove. (http://trove.nla.gov.au)