Our procedure is relatively straightforward (experienced Web folks may want to skip this part): original magazines are carefully prepared for scanning and then processed through a flat-bed 300 DPI scanner. Pages are scanned using Caere's OmniPage Professional(tm) software, which allows us to store both a master image which can be subsequently stored in Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) for the graphic images, and for the text as a wordprocessing document after further processing through the software's Optical Character Recognition (OCR) capabilities. After Special Collections staff seal away the original document, we then print the graphic 'facsimile' pages and use these as the basis for proof-reading the wordprocessing files. Once this step is complete, we convert the word processing files into text-only counterparts tagged with the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), the basis for the formatted presentation you see on the story screens. Hypertextual links are provided from tables of contents to the individual textual and graphical items, arranged by magazine and issue.

For each issue, there is a Table of Contents page which includes links to that issue's texts and graphics. Graphics are indicated by the presence of 'thumbnail' images, which are in turn links to downloadable, full-screen GIF images. In addition, links are provided from the end of each text to the beginning of the next in the sequence of the original magazine. There are also pre-formed links returning the user to the various Tables of contents and home pages of the project.