In 2004, Georgia State University (GSU) Library's Southern Labor Archives, located in Atlanta, began working with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) to plan for the digitization of the union's 105-year-old journal. With generous financial support from IAM, the authors, who are GSU staff members, began microfilming and digitizing "Machinists' Monthly Journal" and "The Machinist" newspaper in 2004. "Machinists' Monthly Journal" was IAM's official journal from 1889 to 1956, then "The Machinist" became the official publication until 1994. When the project was completed in spring 2006, GSU Library had realized its two goals: creating preservation copies of the volumes and, through the development of a digital library system, providing searchable online versions of the journal and newspaper for interested users all over the world. This article presents an overview of the digital conversion project from start to finish. (Contains 2 endnotes.)