Newspaper archive at Colindale set to close by 2012

Posted by Dominic Ponsford on 11 January 2010 at 10:00
Tags: Free Newspapers, Journalism, Magazines, National Newspapers, Newspapers, Regional Newspapers

The British library’s newspaper archive at Colindale is set to close by 2012, to be replaced by a digital reading room in St Pancras.

The comprehensive archive of national newspapers, regional newspapers and magazines will be preserved at a new state of the art storage facility in Boston Spa, Yorkshire - The Guardian reports.

Some 750m newspapers going back 300 years and taking up 50km of shelf space are housed at Colindale.

Tags: Free Newspapers, Journalism, Magazines, National Newspapers, Newspapers, Regional Newspapers