Digitized Newspapers Help in the Classroom

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, by now you’ve heard about newspapers and books getting digitized and made accessible over the Internet or on the new ebook readers.  I ran across a blog that illustrates exactly how one teacher is using digitized newspapers as an educational tool.  What’s even cooler about it is that [...]

Posted Under: Archives, Digitization, Education
This post was written by Chris Swiser on October 23, 2009 Comments (0)

October is American Archives month

This month we celebrate American Archives month, and thus, the importance of archives.  So . . . what is an archive?  Here is one definition: “an archive is a collection of individual publications that are often cataloged or listed and made accessible in some way.  Magazines, journals, and newspapers with Web sites sometimes refer to [...]

Posted Under: Archives, Genealogical Societies, Historical societies, Libraries
This post was written by Chris Swiser on October 2, 2009 Comments (0)