Newspaper Clippings These might form the bulk of your collection. They are also the most ill-used form of historical documentation about your chapter. If you clip newspapers, make sure you identify each article with the name of the paper, its date, and the page from whence the article came. You can do this by clipping the paper's banner or by attaching the information to the article on a separate piece of paper. They might fall off or tear the paper if removed later.
Newspaper deteriorates fairly rapidly.
It has a high acid content, so it turns brown and brittle with age. This is probably the best preservation method because it gives you a place to identify the clipping, and it solves the potential problem posed by their odd shapes and sizes. Finally, the least expensive alternative is to make a list of the articles in your possession, then check it against the microfilmed newspaper holdings of an area library. You can reduce the number of articles you keep by the number the library has on microfilm. If you keep the articles in their original or photocopied form, organize them by year.