Digitization of the old newspapers is an imperative present in the contemporary libraries in the context of the users huge interest on one hand and the effort to protect much better extremely fragile and damaged material. Although it was considered previously that the newspapers values have been ceasing, and the skepticism about using newspapers as historical sources is founded upon its questionable accuracy and reliability of the pieces of information they carry, until recent time everyday life, culture and society have been more explored. In this manner the newspapers, because of its values for the national and local history, politics and culture, together with the other written heritage, are often in demand for the purpose of variety of research. Therefore, it is wished for to point out the importance of preservation of the newspapers as the part of the written heritage and the new possibilities of preservation that is realized through the advancement of the technology and the digitization stronger influence. Apart from the preservation, digitization facilitates also easier accessibility for the users. Under our circumstances in particular it necessitates to emphasize the utilization of the old Croatian newspapers, i.e. 19th and first half of the 20th century in Croatian language but also the strategic document that presents a foundation for the program development and the digitization projects. Consequently, paper will present the preservation of the written heritage with particular accent on newspapers and the digitization. The theoretical hypothesis concerned with the digitization of written heritage will be explored, in particular of the old newspapers and the case studies of good practice of some foreign and national projects of newspapers digitization. At the end will be shown the course of the implementation and the results of pilot testing digitization of Narodni list, 1862, with the goal of its preservation and easier accessibility to the users of such exquisite and preserved documents.