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Breaking News! New titles for Washington NDNP!

Breaking News! New titles for Washington NDNP!

From the desk of Shawn Schollmeyer, NDNP Washington Coordinator This week the Library of Congress uploaded the next set of our long awaited newspaper titles for the National Digital Newspaper Program. Historic Washington state newspapers can now be searched and viewed on the Chronicling America website.  The added benefit, besides being able to search early newspapers from Washington Territory and early statehood, is each title also includes publication information and a short essay about the paper’s history. Take a scroll…

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WSL and the “Declaration of Learning”

WSL and the “Declaration of Learning”

The Library of Congress, along with 12 other governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, including the American Library Association and the  Institute of Museum and Library Services, have recently created the Declaration of Learning.  This document “formally announces their partnership as members of the Inter-Agency Collaboration on Education”.  Each organization involved pledges to utilize its historic artifacts and institutional expertise to create interactive digital media, apps, and websites. In the spirit of this declaration, Washington State Library would like to highlight some of  our digital services and activities that also share…

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Over 5.2 million pages strong… and counting

Over 5.2 million pages strong… and counting

Interior of the Library of Congress From the futuristic desk of Shawn Schollmeyer. With 100,000 pages contributed each two year grant cycle from over 30 states and reaching for participation by all 50 states, the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) is the biggest digital newspaper project in U.S. history and sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC). Each of those 5.2 million pages need related lines of code and metadata along with…

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How Digitizing is Changing my Life: Ashley Fejeran

How Digitizing is Changing my Life: Ashley Fejeran

From the desk of Rand Simmons Recently I blogged that we had received an extension on our National Endowment for the Humanities grant to allow us an extension of time to continue to digitize Washington historical newspapers. The project is the National Digital Newspaper Program of the Library of Congress (LoC). Washington State Library’s contributions appear in Chronicling America. The project requires collaboration between the Washington State Library and the University of Washington Libraries Microfilm and Newspaper department. At UW…

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NEH Approves Grant Extension for WSL through 2014

NEH Approves Grant Extension for WSL through 2014

From the desk of Shawn Schollmeyer We are very excited to announce that we will be able to continue our historic newspaper digitization project for an additional two years. The National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) is a collaborative grant program between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress, seeking to fund state newspaper digitization projects and make select titles available through the Chronicling America website. The long term goal is to provide access to public domain…

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A Newspaper Lost to History?

A Newspaper Lost to History?

From the desk of Steve Willis, Central Library Services Program Manager of the Washington State Library: The editor of the Clarkston Republic appears to be able to barely contain his gloating while reporting on the demise on a rival newspaper. I found this on page one, top of the fold, July 10, 1913:    CLARKSTON DAILY HERALD SUCCUMBS  Daily Paper Short Lived — Published Only Six Weeks. Cause Unexplained  “Last Saturday evening the Herald Publishing company suspended publication of the Clarkston…

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WSL Updates for March 17, 2011

WSL Updates for March 17, 2011

Volume 7, March 17, 2011 for the WSL Updates mailing list Topics include: 1) CONNECTING GRANT CYCLE NOW OPEN 2) ASSIST IN SELECTING DATABASE PRODUCTS FOR WA LIBRARIES 3) SEQUIM GAZETTE MICROFILM AVAILABLE 4) APRIL IS THE MONTH OF THE MILITARY CHILD 5) COMMUNITY CONNECT GRANTS WEBINAR 6) FREE CE OPPORTUNITIES NEXT WEEK

Reeling In the Years at the State Library

Reeling In the Years at the State Library

From the desk of Sean Lanksbury. PNW & Special Collections Librarian Here at the State Library our staff and users still heavily rely on this crazy little technology called “microfilm.”  It is what people used for high-density information storage before the age of computers, and digitizing it all is still going to take some time.  The library keeps all of the Washington Newspapers on microfilm and many other interesting documents, such as the Territorial Newspapers Card Index [see catalog record online],…

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