Library Charged $1.5 Million for Journal Archive

Last Tuesday, when more than a century’s worth of historic on-line archives of "The Milwaukee Journal" and "Milwaukee Sentinel" abruptly disappeared from the internet, it came without warning to City Librarian Paula Kiely. The library was originally a key player in the digitization of the newspaper archive along with Google. Then, in spring, a salesperson from NewsBank came calling to Kiely, offering on May 3rd to sell the rights to the database to the library, this same database which had gotten 30 percent of its materials from the library.
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