Israel: Newspaper Digitization: 100 Years Of Haaretz to Be Made Available Online (Open Access)
From the JTA:
For its 100th birthday, Israel’s Haaretz daily newspaper will be digitized and made available to the public.
Haaretz and the National Library of Israel signed an agreement to open digital access to all the issues of the newspaper since its founding in 1919.
The newspaper will become part of the JPress-Historic Jewish Press website, a collaboration between the National Library of Israel and Tel Aviv University, which includes millions of pages from over 300 Israeli and Jewish newspapers published in 16 languages from dozens of countries since the end of the 18th century.
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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