The Rocky Mountain News lives on at the Denver Public Library
Colorado’s first newspaper died four years ago, when its owner E.W. Scripps ceased publication, but the Rocky Mountain News will live forever in the Denver Public Library.
Library officials have been working on a deal with Scripps since the News printed its final edition Feb. 27, 2009, seeking total access to all of the photos and all of the text and multimedia projects that were produced by the nearly 150-year-old newspaper.
Last week, the contract was finally approved by Scripps and the Denver City Council, effectively making the library the News’ publisher.
Michael Sauers is the Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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Colorado’s first newspaper died four years ago, when its owner E.W. Scripps ceased publication, but the Rocky Mountain News will live forever in the Denver Public Library.
