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By Lachlan Ellis<\/p>\n

Generous donations from a local bank and a community member have allowed a Moorabool historical society to put 21 years\u2019 worth of historical newspapers online, freely accessible for the public.<\/p>\n

The Ballan Shire Historical Society (BSHS) has been wanting to digitise more newspapers from the region for some time now, but recent donations have allowed copies of The Ballan Times from 1899 to 1920 to go up on the Trove website.<\/p>\n

BSHS Secretary Richard Biden said it was vital to get as many historical papers digitised as possible, to ensure records aren\u2019t lost.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnyone that\u2019s interested in history will tell you that it\u2019s vitally important to have old newspapers digitised, it\u2019s so easy to access them and get information. They\u2019ve got optical character recognition, so you can search for words, people\u2019s names, anything,\u201d Mr Biden told the Moorabool News.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe physical copies we have are very frail. If people come in and go searching through them it\u2019s quite possible they could be damaged. It\u2019s best to retain them and have them digitised \u2013 then anyone, anywhere in the world, can access them.\u201d<\/p>\n

A donation from BSHS member Geraldine Bagwell, to go towards the digitisation of the newspapers, got the ball rolling.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019d come into some money and wanted to make a donation to the Society, as long as it was put towards digitisation of the newspapers. The amount she gave us wasn\u2019t quite enough, so we approached the Ballan & District Community Bank Branch, and they agreed to give us a $5,000 donation through their community investment program,\u201d Mr Biden said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe National Library have been progressively digitising papers, but it\u2019s an expensive job. We would like to thank Geraldine Bagwell for her very kind donation, and the Ballan & District Community Bank Branch for their support to make this possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

You can access the archived copies of The Ballan Times by heading to Trove online and put the \u2018The Ballan Times\u2019 in the \u2018Titles and places\u2019 section.<\/p>\n

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