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.
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 [...]
Large public libraries allocate a substantial portion of their budgets to pay for subscriptions to various databases, but even small libraries can provide some access through cooperative agreements with regional or state systems. http://librariesandliteracy.wordpress.com
I have noticed more and more libraries trying to partner together within their system. Team work is what we are going to need to get through these [...]
Congratulations to the libraries all over the United States this week, it’s National Library Week. It was first sponsored in 1958, over 51 years to date. On a personal note I would just like to say “thank you” to all the staff members, volunteers, librarians, and directors that I have been working with. I couldn’t ask for a better crowd [...]
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 [...]
