Budget Woes Put Brakes on Missouri's Newspaper Archiving

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By: Looming budget cuts are putting one of the State Historical Society's most well-known projects on hold.

The state agency maintains what is billed as the nation's largest state newspaper collection on microfilm. But expected budget cuts have prompted the society to temporarily end that tradition. State lawmakers have told government agencies to prepare for cuts as high as 25 percent in the coming fiscal year.

Boxes of newspapers sit idle in a back storage room at group's headquarters on the University of Missouri campus in Columbia. The collection boasts more than 3,500 titles from every county in Missouri. The oldest title is more than 200 years old.

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