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My archivist daughter at the National Library of Medicine has passed
along information about yesterday's release of a new searchable
historic newspaper collection. Some lessons could have been learned
from Proquest, which has sharper images and which prints newspaper
name, date, and page number on the page with the printed article.
Nonetheless, after experimenting with the search features for only a
half hour, I can attest to the research benefits of this new resource,
which offershistoric newspaperspreviously unavailable online.
Read the website release announcement below for the current scope and
long-term plans.
Sue Attalla
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
101 Independence Avenue SE
Washington DC 20540
Phone: (202) 707-2905
Fax: (202) 707-9199
March 21, 2007
Contact: Guy Lamolinara, Library of Congress (202) 707-9217;
(202)
606-8671
AMERICANS CAN READ THE NEWS BEFORE IT WAS HISTORY ON NEW WEB SITE
"Chronicling America" OffersHistoric Newspapersfrom Six States and
D.C. in First Release
The Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
today announced that "Chronicling America: Historic American
Newspapers"
is debuting with more than 226,000 pages of public-domain newspapers
from California, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, Virginia and the
District of Columbia published between 1900 and 1910. The
fully-searchable site is available atwww.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/.
"Chronicling America" is produced by the National Digital Newspaper
Program (NDNP), a partnership between the National Endowment for the
Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress created to develop an
Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with select
digitization of historic pages as well as information about newspapers
from 1690 to the present. Supported by NEH's "We the People" program
and
Digital Humanities Initiative, this rich digital resource will
continue
to be developed and permanently maintained at the Library of
Congress.
Over a period of approximately 20 years, NDNP will create a national,
digital resource of historically significant newspapers published
between 1836 and 1922 from all U.S. states and territories. Also on
the
Web site, an accompanying national newspaper directory of
bibliographic
and holdings information directs users to newspaper titles in all
formats. The information in the directory was created through an
earlier
NEH initiative. The Library of Congress will also digitize and
contribute to the NDNP database a significant number of newspaper
pages
drawn from its own collections during the course of this partnership.
For the initial launch the Library of Congress contributed more than
90,000 pages from 14 different newspaper titles published in the
District of Columbia between 1900 and 1910.
"The Library congratulates all the partners in this extraordinary
program to makehistoric newspapersavailable through our Web site,"
said Librarian of Congress James H. Billington. "The National Digital
Newspaper Program provides access to one of our best sources of
information about what was considered important to Americans at a
given
point in time."
"'Chronicling America' will allow students, teachers, historians -- in
fact, all Americans -- access to some of our most important historical
documents. It is one thing to read about historical events from the
perspective of historians, narrated with the value of hindsight. It is
entirely different to read the story as it was happening," said NEH
Chairman Bruce Cole. "'Chronicling America' will be available to the
American public for free, forever; and I hope Americans will visit the
site and try to imagine the emotions and actions of their forebears as
those stories went to print."
The following six institutions received the first NDNP grants to
digitize papers in their respective states from the first decade of
the
* University of California, Riverside, $400,000;
* University of Florida Libraries, Gainesville, $320, 959;
* University of Kentucky Research Foundation, Lexington, $310,000;
* New York Public Library, New York City, $351,500;
* University of Utah, Salt Lake City, $352,693; and
* Library of Virginia, Richmond, $201,226.
New NDNP awardees will be announced later this summer.
The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world. Its more
than 134 million items -- books, newspapers, periodicals, manuscripts,
maps, photographs, films, sound recordings and digital materials - are
accessible through its 21 reading rooms on Capitol Hill. The Library's
newspaper collections have grown to comprise more than 1 million
current
issues, more than 30,000 bound historical volumes and more than
600,000
microfilm reels.
Created in 1965 as an independent federal agency, the National
Endowment
for the Humanities supports learning in history, literature,
philosophy
and other areas of the humanities. NEH grants enrich classroom
learning,
create and preserve knowledge, and bring ideas to life through public
television, radio, new technologies, museum exhibitions, and programs
in
libraries and other community places.
http://www.nambour-chronicle.com archives the Nambour Chronicle & North Coast Advertiser first published in 1903.along information about yesterday's release of a new searchable
historic newspaper collection. Some lessons could have been learned
from Proquest, which has sharper images and which prints newspaper
name, date, and page number on the page with the printed article.
Nonetheless, after experimenting with the search features for only a
half hour, I can attest to the research benefits of this new resource,
which offershistoric newspaperspreviously unavailable online.
Read the website release announcement below for the current scope and
long-term plans.
Sue Attalla
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
101 Independence Avenue SE
Washington DC 20540
Phone: (202) 707-2905
Fax: (202) 707-9199
March 21, 2007
Contact: Guy Lamolinara, Library of Congress (202) 707-9217;
(202)
606-8671
AMERICANS CAN READ THE NEWS BEFORE IT WAS HISTORY ON NEW WEB SITE
"Chronicling America" OffersHistoric Newspapersfrom Six States and
D.C. in First Release
The Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
today announced that "Chronicling America: Historic American
Newspapers"
is debuting with more than 226,000 pages of public-domain newspapers
from California, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, Virginia and the
District of Columbia published between 1900 and 1910. The
fully-searchable site is available atwww.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/.
"Chronicling America" is produced by the National Digital Newspaper
Program (NDNP), a partnership between the National Endowment for the
Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress created to develop an
Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with select
digitization of historic pages as well as information about newspapers
from 1690 to the present. Supported by NEH's "We the People" program
and
Digital Humanities Initiative, this rich digital resource will
continue
to be developed and permanently maintained at the Library of
Congress.
Over a period of approximately 20 years, NDNP will create a national,
digital resource of historically significant newspapers published
between 1836 and 1922 from all U.S. states and territories. Also on
the
Web site, an accompanying national newspaper directory of
bibliographic
and holdings information directs users to newspaper titles in all
formats. The information in the directory was created through an
earlier
NEH initiative. The Library of Congress will also digitize and
contribute to the NDNP database a significant number of newspaper
pages
drawn from its own collections during the course of this partnership.
For the initial launch the Library of Congress contributed more than
90,000 pages from 14 different newspaper titles published in the
District of Columbia between 1900 and 1910.
"The Library congratulates all the partners in this extraordinary
program to makehistoric newspapersavailable through our Web site,"
said Librarian of Congress James H. Billington. "The National Digital
Newspaper Program provides access to one of our best sources of
information about what was considered important to Americans at a
given
point in time."
"'Chronicling America' will allow students, teachers, historians -- in
fact, all Americans -- access to some of our most important historical
documents. It is one thing to read about historical events from the
perspective of historians, narrated with the value of hindsight. It is
entirely different to read the story as it was happening," said NEH
Chairman Bruce Cole. "'Chronicling America' will be available to the
American public for free, forever; and I hope Americans will visit the
site and try to imagine the emotions and actions of their forebears as
those stories went to print."
The following six institutions received the first NDNP grants to
digitize papers in their respective states from the first decade of
the
* University of California, Riverside, $400,000;
* University of Florida Libraries, Gainesville, $320, 959;
* University of Kentucky Research Foundation, Lexington, $310,000;
* New York Public Library, New York City, $351,500;
* University of Utah, Salt Lake City, $352,693; and
* Library of Virginia, Richmond, $201,226.
New NDNP awardees will be announced later this summer.
The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world. Its more
than 134 million items -- books, newspapers, periodicals, manuscripts,
maps, photographs, films, sound recordings and digital materials - are
accessible through its 21 reading rooms on Capitol Hill. The Library's
newspaper collections have grown to comprise more than 1 million
current
issues, more than 30,000 bound historical volumes and more than
600,000
microfilm reels.
Created in 1965 as an independent federal agency, the National
Endowment
for the Humanities supports learning in history, literature,
philosophy
and other areas of the humanities. NEH grants enrich classroom
learning,
create and preserve knowledge, and bring ideas to life through public
television, radio, new technologies, museum exhibitions, and programs
in
libraries and other community places.