This is a stopgap measure that will not be necessary in later versions. From the chronological index, a user might merely browse through the papers or target a specific date. The Institute is developing a tool that will permit the image of the newspaper to be manipulated easily. In the current version, however, users will need to crop and enlarge portions of the newspaper in order to read it. All news articles of local importance are indexed, along with every legal notice, obituary, and descriptions of meetings, weddings, and other social events.
Every individual named in the paper appears in the tags.
By clicking on an index entry, the user brings up the image of the newspaper page. The user will be able to zoom into the appropriate column to read the full text of the article, to clip it for a scrapbook file, to annotate it for later use by the user or someone else.