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 [...]
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 [...]
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.comÂ
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
