MORE 'DIGITIZED-NEWSPAPERS' POSTS
Newspaper Digitization: "Ohio Historical Society Receives National Grant to Preserve Historic Ohio Newspapers"
| Digital Preservation, Funding, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Public Libraries, Resources
From the Urbana Daily Citizen: The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has given $334,000 to the Ohio Historical Society to continue its digitization of Ohio’s microfilmed newspapers. The National Digital Newspaper Program in Ohio, a part of the National Digital Newspaper Program developed by NEH and the Library of Congress, will digitize 26 Ohio […]
So Long and Goodbye! Google Is Ending Newspaper Digitization Project
| Archives and Special Collections, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Patrons and Users, Reports, Resources
Update (5/22): We’ve Added A Few Pieces of Info From the Letter Google Sent to Google Newspaper Digitization Partners. You’ll Find Them At the Bottom of this Entry. Google’s goal to digitize all of the world’s newspapers is ending. Matt McGee from SEL reports that after approximately 32 months after a formal launch announcement, Google […]
Have a Laugh or Three: The Onion Digitizes Its Print Archive and Makes It Available Online, Rollout Begins Today
| Archives and Special Collections, Journal Articles, News, Publishing, Resources
From an AP Story by Jack Coyle: The satirical paper of record is dipping into its archives. The Onion will announce Monday that it is publishing digitized versions of all its old print editions [1988 – 1996]. Beginning Monday, TheOnion.com will begin posting a handful of old issues every week for the coming months. [Clip] […]
