Historical societies allow members to take advantage of their shared knowledge through education, research capabilities, and guidance. The ability to use your knowledge and resources to guide others is a wonderful thing. Using and making online resources available for your patrons and members is an excellent way to share information.Â
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Its great to see more and more institutions and newspapers choosing to make their archives available online. Here is an interesting post from abovethefold.newspaperarchive.com blog..
Online archive to document 100 years of news
I am pleased to see so much activity around the world in regards to the preservation and digital access to historical news content. The archives of the [...]
Recently I began a search for a cousin of mine, we were close growing up but I haven’t seen or heard from him in about 20 years a long time. I used a lot of online resources during my search, I mean who has time to call every living relative and press them for info? I [...]
A few weeks ago we sent out a press release describing our initiative to add more international content to our database. Well, I must say the response has been overwelmingly positive. Not only have we agreed to digtize the international collection of historic newspapers from the University of Virginia, but now we have added the [...]
“Whereas American women of every race, class, and ethnic background have made historic contributions to the growth and strength of our Nation in countless recorded and unrecorded ways;” This is the beginning of the Congressional resolution designating the month of March as “Women’s History Month“.Â
Today I would like to talk about the woman in history that [...]
I saw this quote today. I love it - its true! Not only are librarians powerful when it comes to finding information and but they help make it available to patrons by their recommendation or acquisition.
“Librarians can catalog anything from an onion to a dog’s ear. They could catalog you. Librarians wield unfathomable power. With [...]
