However, it was extremely time consuming to repeat each procedure over one thousand times, for every issue in the archive. During our production process, we encountered the hundreds of events, movements, and ideas which appeared repeatedly in the newspapers published over the years. We hope that knowledge of these continuities will help archive users bridge their experiences with those of Bardians of other periods, thus seeing themselves as part of a living tradition. Based on our experience as editors of the Observer , we can confirm that the archive will provide considerable assistance to future writers and editors who wish to bring historical perspective to their writing and editing or to research stories whose backgrounds are rooted in the past century. We are pleased that this first step in the Archive Project has been taken.
Every page is now fully accessible.
We expect that the richness of these pages will inspire a range of uses of the materials, including general browsing, specific research, Senior Projects, and historical and cultural studies of the documents. In the future, it is hoped, all members of the Bard community will avail themselves of the opportunity to hear the voices of the past, which are here unlocked for the first time.