NZZ donates its print archive to the ZB Zurich for its anniversary
For its 240th anniversary, the NZZ is donating its print archive to the Zentralbibliothek Zürich (ZB) - and with it a large part of its entire archive holdings. In a prestigious project in cooperation with the Swiss National Library, the ZB is digitizing all NZZ issues back to 1780.
The NZZ-Archive includes besides the NZZ-newspaper volumes, microfilms, photographic negatives, special volumes, and the extensive NZZ-company archive, consisting of various correspondence, accounts and the estates of several NZZeditors-in-chief. Already in June 2016, the NZZ handed over its archive to the ZB as a perpetual deposit. For the anniversary, the NZZ a large part of its archive, namely the print editions, to the ZB as a donation. The rest of the archive, in particular the company archive, remains in the ZB as a deposit, but continues to belong to the NZZ.
"The NZZarchive is a piece of Swiss cultural heritage," says Eric Gujer, editor-in-chief of the New Zurich Newspaper. "The Central Library ensures that the holdings are stored professionally and under ideal conditions. The ZB, in turn, is adding a core element of our archive to its holdings and making the archival material accessible to a broad public and also to researchers - in analog form and, in the future, digitally as well. This represents a win-win situation for both sides."
Since the foundation of the New Zurich Newspaper on January 12, 1780, a total of 1.9 million newspaper pages were published. Thanks to a cooperation of the NZZ with the ZB and the Swiss National Library (NL), from the end of 2021 all editions of the NZZ - with the exception of the last 25 years in each case - to E-newspaperarchives.ch be available. The platform is operated by the NL.
