Resources for Genealogical Research
Newspapers contain a lot of information that is not found anywhere else. Here is an article from the Lee County Genealogical Society describing the benefits of using newspapers for genealogical research.
Using Historical Newspapers as an Educational tool.
Most of my clients are Public Libraries, and Universities, but using historical newspapers as an educational tool proves to be both valuable and economical. Click on this interesting blog post from Technology in Class.
Heritage Microfilm announces a partnership with Califa
Heritage Microfilm, microfilm preservation vendor for more than 600 U.S. newspapers, will offer member libraries of Califa, a not-for-profit library cooperative, a steep discount to the ACCESS NewspaperARCHIVE newspaper research database to give library patrons the opportunity to access millions of historical newspaper pages.
“This partnership gives us the unique opportunity to work with libraries in California on a large scale, promoting great historical newspaper content to researchers and genealogists around the region,” said Jamie Leon, Account Manager for Heritage Microfilm. “With more than 6 million newspaper pages in California alone, ACCESS NewspaperARCHIVE will prove a valuable database for researchers.”
ACCESS NewspaperARCHIVE is a version of NewspaperARCHIVE, the world’s largest online newspaper archive, created for libraries and other research institutions. It features more than 90 million searchable newspaper page images from hundreds of cities and thousands of publications. ACCESS NewspaperARCHIVE can be found at http://access.newspaperarchive.com.
“It’s great to be able to work with Heritage Microfilm and NewspaperArchive.com directly to offer our members a huge value,” said Heather Teysko, Califa Manager. “Their California newspaper content makes them a natural fit for Califa, bringing the first-person history of California towns to life and making genealogy and historical research easier.”
Califa will hold a webinar with Access.NewspaperArchive.com following the official beginning of the agreement. All member libraries interested in learning about what Heritage Microfilm and Access.NewspaperArchive.com has to offer will be invited, and the public is welcome to attend as well. A webinar will be held on September 29. Interested parties can follow the Califa Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/califaor the Califa Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=califa&init=quick#/pages/San-Mateo-CA/Califa-Library-Group/18963104703.
Institutions interested in Heritage Microfilm can contact Jamie Leon at jleon@newspaperarchive.com.
Databases “A la Carte”
Did you know Access.NewspaperARCHIVE.com subscriptions are customizable? We can set up access to our complete collection of over 80 million search-able historic newspaper pages or provide portions of our collection as needed. In lieu of these tough economic times, its great to have options to pick from in terms of content, and also have the ability to upgrade and add collections at any time.
Winnipeg Free Press Archives
This resource, with content dating back to 1874, contains 2 million historical pages from the Winnipeg Free Press and is now available as an institutional subscription!
Library Consortiums benefit Greatly from Combining Resources.
Libraries from all over the United States and elsewhere in the world have added the invaluable resource Access.NewspaperArchive.com to their collections, giving students and patrons in more than 290 libraries an unparalleled first-person historical perspective of the last 250 years.
While we encourage individual libraries to subscribe to Access.NewspaperARCHIVE.com, we can offer substantial savings to consortiums which we are unable to match on an individual-institution-basis. Consortiums have a unique and valuable ability to get the most cost effective option in terms of shared resources.
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NewspaperArchive.com is the second most visited Genealogy site!
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New Ideas to Combat Budget Cuts
In these times of budget cuts and constraints. Its always a good idea to ask your peers for their new ideas and their tried and true methods. The Library Journal is an excellent resource for libraries and for vendors and has provided me with a lot of pertinent information for my clients. As I have said in my previous blog posts, we all have to be flexible and creative when purchasing and renewing electronic resources.
Connecting to the past
I just wanted to share this with you. Just last week, we invested in a subscription to Heritage Microfilm’s Newspaper Archive, an online database that houses literally millions of newspaper pages (in an oh-so-handy searchable PDF format) from 1759 to the present. Included in the collection of newspapers from across the country are old issues of the Canton Repository, Massillon’s own Independent(with complete coverage between 1869-1975), and Tuscarawas County’s Times-Reporter and now-defunct Twin City News.
The product itself is revolutionary for reference services because it makes researching the past much more convenient, available, and expeditious for librarians and the public alike. Before our subscription to Heritage’s services, our staff and patrons were heavily reliant upon microfilm, which is not indexed (save for obituary files) or easily searchable, for much of our local history research. Now, whether you’re searching for your parents’ engagement announcement in The Independent, your grandfather’s World War I records in The Repository, or old advertisements for a Uhrichsville dairy in the Twin City News, you can do so with ease from the comfort of your own home! http://massillonlibraryreference.blogspot.com/2009/04/extra-extra.html
Access.Newspaperarchive.com is such a great tool and I’m so glad that the Massillon Public Library has this opportunity to explore the past.
Matt Kosman
Use your Computer to Search News Records
I talk to librarians on a daily basis about their innate ability to “find things” sometimes these things are a missing news article, a certain book, an obituary..sometimes its the drinking fountain. Finding new and easier ways to obtain information is necessary for librarians and really for all of us. I have noticed a lot of blog posts and articles on the effective ways to use just your fingertips to find things with your computer.
