NYS Historic Newspapers Restored with Limited Damage

by | Aug 13, 2018 | NYSHN

On Sunday, July 29th the NNYLN offices suffered a power failure. Normally this would not affect operation of the NYS Historic Newspapers web site (NYSHN). However, the generator failed to run and about an hour after the power failure the backup batteries ran out of...

NYS Historic Newspapers undergoing continued maintenance

by | Jun 20, 2018 | NYSHN

Please be aware that as part of our continuing storage migration project we’ve be experiencing some unforeseen technical problems with the functionality of the web site.  These are the problems that we are currently aware of: A number of newspaper titles have...
NYS Historic Newspapers Storage Upgrade

NYS Historic Newspapers Storage Upgrade

by | Jan 17, 2018 | News, NYSHN

Scheduled Offline Dates: April 4th 9 AM to April 5th 5 PM The NYS Historic Newspapers project hosts 7.5 million pages of historic newspapers from 520+ titles from every county in New York state.  This massive endeavor consumes more than 30 terabytes of storage as...