I work for a company that digitizes newspapers, as well as historical documents, books, photographs, and government records. It is great work, and I feel I am contributing my part to making information accessible to more people. I so remember using the microfilm reader at the library. What a great tool! But if someone else [...]
If you’re like me, you probably weren’t even aware of National Preservation Month. Created in 1971 by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, it started out as National Preservation Week and turned into a month-long event in 2005. The primary focus for the month is about places of historical importance.
Really, it’s a shame that a [...]
Being relatively new to the world of microfilm, digitization, archiving, and all that is involved in any of these types of projects, I am beginning to understand how huge some of these undertakings can be. Just read the blog from Deborah Wythe, who is Head of Digital Collections and Services at the Brooklyn Museum, in [...]
We recycle at home. Paper, plastic, glass, garbage. It really wasn’t too hard to do, it just took a shift in attitude and a little more work. Now, instead of throwing everything “in the trash”, we have four separate containers: one for trash, one for plastic, one for papers, and one for glass. We’re starting [...]
The recent earthquake(s) in Italy made me think about my visit to that wonderful country so many years ago. I remember being awed at the architecture, the history, the age of everything there. Here in Iowa we think something that’s over 100 hundred years old is old. Iowa has been a state since 1846, and [...]
I admit it. I have a Facebook page. And a MySpace page. And a Plaxo page. And a LinkedIn page. And a Classmates page. And a Xing page. And . . . I think that’s all. I think. Have I become a social networking junkie? Umm . . . I believe the answer is a [...]
Today was a great day for online researchers, genealogists and historians everywhere. NewspaperARCHIVE.com announced its partnership with SmallTownPapers. This simply means that more and more content will available in one location to make your search easier. Click on the this link and read the entire story.
So far this year we’ve lost two major city newspapers, first the Denver Rocky Mountain News on February 27, then the Seattle Post-Intelligencer published its last edition yeaterday. It will try to live on as an online “newspaper”, trying to survive through selling online advertising and through online subscriptions.
Some say the death of newspapers started [...]
