Rotary, Google join forces

Full-color, searchable scans of all issues of the magazine from 1959 to 2008 are now available through Google Books. Users can select from a gallery of issues organized by decade or click "Search all issues" to search the entire catalog for a word or phrase. "Google is doing all of the scanning and indexing to make the material searchable -- and at no cost to Rotary," says Stephanie Giordano, archivist for Rotary International. Some issues of interest include December 1979, which reported on Rotary's first polio immunization project; the February 2005 centennial issue; and issues from the 1980s discussing the admission of women into Rotary. Try it for yourself. Browse past issues now. This article is abridged. Read the entire article here.