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Daily Kent Staters- 1950s are live!


We have recently added the 1950s to our online digital archive of the Kent State student newspaper, the Daily Kent Stater!

Please stop by the site and check out the new additions: http://dks.library.kent.edu/

We've also added a feature to ask users to help us make text corrections to the project. More information here

We will continue to add more content later this year- Coming up will be the 1980s and 1990s!

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