By: centraljersey.com
CRANBURY – The Cranbury Public Library has digitized back issues of The Cranbury Press newspaper from 1886 to 2009.
All the issues are saved in a searchable PDF format and stored on a portable hard drive in the library. Anyone can come in and request to search back issues of The Cranbury Press by day, month, year or even all issues at once. To find specific articles, users may search on a name, place or any relevant keyword."
The project began in 2002 when the Cranbury Public Library partnered with the Cranbury Historical and Preservation Society to secure a grant from the Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission to begin digitizing the oldest issues of the Press. By 2003, all funding was secured, and the process of digitizing back issues from library microfilm began.
By June 2004, the first phase was complete, and the Historic Cranbury Press website was launched. Still in use today, this site allows users to search The Cranbury Press issues from 1886 to 1926 online.
The Historical Cranbury Press can be accessed from the library’s website at www.CranburyPubliclLibrary.org.

