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8 Washington Newspapers Added to Chronicling America!

8 Washington Newspapers Added to Chronicling America!

On Friday, December 18, more than 42,000 historic newspaper pages from 8 Washington newspapers were contributed by the Washington State Library to the Chronicling America web site, hosted by the Library of Congress. The site provides free and open access to over 1.7 million pages from 212 titles, that were published between 1880 and 1922 in 15 states and the District of Columbia. More pages from other newspapers around Washington State will be periodically uploaded throughout 2010 as part of…

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National Newspaper Archive Celebrates 1M Pages Online

National Newspaper Archive Celebrates 1M Pages Online

The National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) recently celebrated adding 1 million pages to the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America site and adding 7 more states to the program. Read more about this major milestone at washingtonpost.com. The program is a combined effort of the Library of Congress, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and institutions from 22 states (including Washington State). Access to the historic newspaper archive is free at chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. Selected illustrated newspaper pages have also been uploaded on the Library of Congress Flickr Commons. Read more about Washington State’s participation in…

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Digitizing Newspapers: Part I – Source material

Digitizing Newspapers: Part I – Source material

We began a post about changes we’d recently implemented in our post-processing of digital images of newspaper pages. Of course, we found this hard to talk about without delving first into the process of digitizing newspapers. So we’ve decided to cover the topic more thoroughly through a series of posts. These posts are not meant to be a “Steps A-Z” type of tutorial but rather a discussion of things we consider when scanning and processing newspaper pages. Please feel free…

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Image metadata tools

Image metadata tools

If you’ve ever labored under the wish that you could easily extract, edit, or read that wonderful data embedded in your image files, you’re not alone. There are lots of reasons to work with the embedded metadata in your image or other media files. For instance, you may want to keep records about your collections or display the file size and pixel dimensions of images in your collection. Much of this data exists in tags embedded in image files. Some…

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OCLC picked to digitize historic Washington newspapers

OCLC picked to digitize historic Washington newspapers

The Washington State Library (WSL) recently awarded Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC) the contract to digitize 100,000 newspaper images from microfilm. The contract is part of WSL’s National Digital Newspaper (NDNP) grant, recently awarded by the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH), to digitize historic Washington newspapers. OCLC has a long history of working with historic newspapers and currently maintains the database of  the U.S. Newspaper Program (USNP), an initiative to microfilm newspapers published in the United States from the…

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WSL Receives NEH Newspaper Digitization Grant

WSL Receives NEH Newspaper Digitization Grant

The Washington State Library (WSL) recently received a National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) grant. Washington’s NDNP grant is managed by the Research & Development (R&D) team within the State Library and will fund the digitization of 100,000 newspaper pages from microfilm. NDNP is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and is managed in part by the Library of Congress (LC). The NDNP is an initiative that began in 2005 and “builds on the foundation established by an earlier NEH initiative: the United States Newspaper Program (USNP).” Library of Congress: Chronicling America site…

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