A Yale College alumnus and former reporter for the Yale Daily News (YDN) has made a significant gift to the Yale University Library in support of the Yale Daily News Historical Archive project.
The library began digitizing the YDN in 2008. In its first phase, donors supported the project by funding a series of years of the paper’s publication. Issues from the paper’s founding in 1878 through 1995 were made available online, providing an invaluable glimpse into the life of the Yale and New Haven communities throughout more than a century of history.
The new gift, made in 2021, has allowed the library to digitize and upload issues from 1995 to the present. Approximately 24,000 issues of the Yale Daily News are now available in digital format—including occasional special issues and supplements—that users can search, view, and download in PDF format. The gift has also facilitated the migration of the archive to a new and more user-friendly platform, facilitated the addition of issues from 1996 to the present, and will help ensure the archive’s ongoing maintenance and preservation.