Rapid growth of electronic data bases on a daily basis

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I found this small bit of information today: “The rapid development of electronic imaging and storage technologies holds great promise for enhancing access to all types of research materials, including newspapers. As implied above, for example, the highly labor-intensive task of newspaper indexing can be accomplished with remarkable efficiency and savings by conversion of text into electronic [...]

The Wisconsin Initiative

Heritage Microfilm and Newspaper Archive have worked very closely with the State of Wisconsin for the past four years, digitizing almost their entire historical microfilm archive.  Check it out at http://www.badgerlink.net/ We started with the Daily Argus, gradually expanding our services until we had built Wisconsin a custom newspaper archive website and digitized a total [...]

Combine Forces for More Purchasing Power

Shoppers have enjoyed the money saving benefits of buying in bulk for years. It makes sense, right? By making one larger purchase of a product you actually pay less than making several smaller purchases of the same thing. Ok, so you may own the largest jar of peanut butter known to man but at least [...]

The Benefits of Small Newspapers

Today I found an article describing the benefits of small newspapers.   Heritage Microfilm prides itself on the fact that we provide our clients with hundreds of small to medium sized newspapers on microfilm.  Through Access.newspaperarchive.com, we are able to give libraries access to many different points of view from places near and far.Â
 I grew up in Waterloo, Iowa and I have [...]

Partnerships are Vital

I believe creating mutually beneficial partnerships are vital in our industry.  Adding resources, preservation needs, digitization needs, and budget constraints give everyone the opportunity to be creative when expanding your collection.Â
Our newly created partnership with the University of Virginia libraries has given us the opportunity to add a tremendous amount of international content to our database.  I am really [...]

Online Resources vs Tight Budget

How do you determine the best value of your online resources during tough budget times?
Today I’m going to talk about the best way to determine the value of various online resources that libraries hold. Finding and subscribing to an online resource that contains a large collection of content that is not only unique but [...]

International historic newspaper initiative

Heritage Microfilm and NewspaperARCHIVE.com are actively pursuing the addition of international content to be cataloged, digitized and made available online.
Heritage Microfilm will be responsible for the microfilm, including inspecting each reel for quality and assigning priorities for scanning. We have a humidity-and-temperature-controlled storage facility here which will house all the film, preserving it until it [...]

World’s largest online newspaper archive

Heritage Microfilm, an archival microfilm and newspaper digitization company, is a trusted leader in newspaper preservation, as we have worked with newspapers, government agencies, libraries and historical societies around the world to preserve their newspapers and microfilm.
In 1999, Heritage Microfilm started NewspaperARCHIVE.com when we realized the future of preservation would include a digital component along [...]