About 800 stories written by longtime Press-Citizen columnist and Iowa City historian Irving Weber were made available online by the University of Iowa Libraries Preservation Department.

Weber, who died in 1997 at age 96, started his local history column at the Press-Citizen in 1973. A collection of his work was published in an eight-volume set by the Iowa City Host Noon Lions Club, with each volume containing about 100 stories. Those books are now out of print.

UI Libraries worked with the Lions Club and the Iowa City Public Library to digitize the stories and put them online. They can be found at:

http://cdm.lib.uiowa.edu/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/weber