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.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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
