14 2020 Annual Report
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Outreach and Education
N E B R A S K A L A N D M A G A Z I N E D I G I T A L A R C H I V E
In May 2020, Nebraskaland Magazine launched its new digital archive. The first 50 years of Nebraskaland
and its predecessor, Outdoor Nebraska, are now fully searchable online, allowing readers to view, browse
and explore all issues of the magazine, 1926-1976. Additional years will be added to the archive as they
become available, with a one-year lag behind the current subscription year. Readers may search by keyword
or browse issues by decade, season, volume and year. The site is mobile-friendly, and site visitors can view
transcriptions of each issue or use the site's image viewer to flip through scans of the original pages. The
project was part of a three-year collaborative effort between the Nebraskaland Magazine Photo Library and
the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Print copies of back issues housed in the agency archives, the Cochrane-Woods Library at Nebraska
Wesleyan University, and the UNL libraries were scanned, transcribed and encoded by a team of 15 faculty,
staff and students at the CDRH. The CDRH design and development team then created the user-friendly
website in consultation with the Nebraskaland photo library. No single repository contains the entire run
of the magazine. Early issues are especially hard to find and quite fragile. Creating a digital repository
preserves this iconic magazine in its entirety, making it more accessible to a broader audience and searching
its content much easier. The archive is available to the public at: nebraskaland.unl.edu.
