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Our partnership with Community
Our partnership with Community
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Oct 06, 2025
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Many Community Webs members have launched web archiving initiatives at their libraries as a result of the changing local news landscape. As communities have seen their newspapers close, merge, or move to online-only formats, libraries have needed to quickly respond to ensure this irreplaceable local information is available for future users.
“With a decline in the number of print newspapers, it is imperative that local, grassroots news websites be archived,” said Desiree Funston, a librarian at Missoula Public Library in Montana, “History is happening all around us; Community Webs empowers us to preserve it for the future.”
Funston, who also represents the Montana State Genealogical Society in the program, went on to describe how changes in local news will impact the future of genealogical research if local organizations don’t act now to preserve online content. “As the cost of publishing newspaper obituaries continues to climb, people are choosing instead to post tributes to their deceased loved ones on funeral home websites,” she said. “If the funeral home should go out of business or its website be compromised, those obituaries would be lost forever. Webs enables us to create a permanent web archive of online obituaries from across the state of Montana. This collection will have a lasting impact on genealogists who research Montana residents.”
In describing her work to preserve the community newsletter The Cedar Mill News, Liz Paulus of the Cedar Mill and Bethany Community Libraries in Oregon said, “These pages showcase a rich and varied record of community engagement and culture that would otherwise be undiscoverable. The Cedar Mill and Bethany Libraries are fortunate to have this opportunity to use the Archive-It platform to create web archives that shine a light on our communities making their way through times of change and growth, offering glimpses of the past to help inform our future.”
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