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Old archives, brand new future.

The London Public Library is taking delivery of The London Free Press’s extensive internal collection, curated for decades by staff and used by reporters for research, as the paper plans a major move deeper into the city’s downtown core this spring.

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“It’s such a unique donation,” said Anne O’Sullivan, manager of customer services at the London Public Library. “We’re lucky.”

Newspapers have been called a “rough draft of history” and The Free Press is no different.

The cabinets of photos, dozens of boxes of vintage newspaper clippings and subject indexes for microfilm copies of the newspaper will have a new home at the library’s downtown branch near its local history archive, the London Room.

Once the collection touches down in the library, The Free Press archive will be digitized and made available to the public.