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Northern Star

The Student News Site of Northern Illinois University

Northern Star

The Student News Site of Northern Illinois University

Northern Star

A Northern Star collection of 1976 newspapers from April 16 to Aug. 12 is open to a headline reading “NIU Erotic Films Festival includes hard core shows.” The Northern Star digitization project, an effort to convert print issues from 1899 to 1997 to a digital format, has been delayed again. (Totus Tuus Keely | Northern Star)

New updates on Northern Star record digitization

By Alyssa Welch, News Reporter | September 18, 2025

The Northern Star digitization project, an effort to convert print issues from 1899 to 1997 to a digital format, has been delayed again. The Northern Star digitization process has been an ongoing project at the Founders Memorial Library with the goal...

A copy of the first edition issue of the newspaper that came to be known as the Northern Star rests on a podium. (Sean Reed | Northern Star)

NIU library digitizing Northern Star issues from 1899 to 1997

By Michael Mollsen, News Reporter | February 7, 2023

DeKALB – Through the NIU Library, the Northern Star’s older issues, dating back to 1899 (the first year the Northern Star began printing), are being digitized and will be available for the public to read online later this year. Before the old print...

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