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Colindale is the site of the British Newspaper Library, and houses 750m newspaper pages in its archive. The archive grows by 7m pages a year. 2m pages of 19th-century British newspapers have been digitised and are available online, with a further 1m are to be added this year.
If this archive is to close in 2012 to be moved to Boston Spa:
What per centage of the archive will be unavailable to look at?
When will the digitisation be complete?
Bonus question: if it costs around £1 a page to digitise the newspapers, and the government have pledged £33m to the project, including a state of the art building (say £30m), how much is left in the budget to pay for the move?
If this archive is to close in 2012 to be moved to Boston Spa:
What per centage of the archive will be unavailable to look at?
When will the digitisation be complete?
Bonus question: if it costs around £1 a page to digitise the newspapers, and the government have pledged £33m to the project, including a state of the art building (say £30m), how much is left in the budget to pay for the move?
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