The following excerpt is from KentWired.com:
Print editions of The Daily Kent Stater are now available online, with full-text digital access to issues dating back to 1940.
Thanks to efforts from the University Libraries Department of Special Collections & Archives and the Digital Projects team, 9,397 issues of The Stater have been digitized.
The project to digitize old issues of The Stater began in 2011 under the direction of Cara Gilgenbach, head of Special Collections & Archives. Virginia Dressler, digital projects librarian, came on to the project in April 2014, and has since been helping see the effort through.
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Thanks to ResearchBuzz for the heads-up.