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Digital Collection Evaluation: Review Of A Digital Newspaper Collection Held By The Library Of Congress, The University Of Florida Library, And The University Of North Texas Library, James Gross Oct 2013

Digital Collection Evaluation: Review Of A Digital Newspaper Collection Held By The Library Of Congress, The University Of Florida Library, And The University Of North Texas Library, James Gross

James Gross

Drexel University, Info 653, Assignment #3, Digital Collection Evaluation. Brief review of three repositories, each one housing a unique digital Newspaper Collection. Repositories reviewed include: The Library of Congress, Chronicling America, Historic American Newspapers; The University of Florida Digital Collections, Florida Digital Newspaper Library; and The University of North Texas Library, Portal to Texas History, Texas Digital Newspaper Program.


Digital Library Project: Brief Review Of The Library Of Congress, American Memory, James Gross Oct 2013

Digital Library Project: Brief Review Of The Library Of Congress, American Memory, James Gross

James Gross

Drexel University, Info 653, Assignment #1, Digital Library Project: Brief Review of The Library of Congress, American Memory.


The Vermont Digital Newspaper Project And The National Digital Newspaper Program: Cooperative Efforts In Long-Term Digital Newspaper Access And Preservation, Tom Mcmurdo, Birdie Maclennan Jul 2013

The Vermont Digital Newspaper Project And The National Digital Newspaper Program: Cooperative Efforts In Long-Term Digital Newspaper Access And Preservation, Tom Mcmurdo, Birdie Maclennan

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The Vermont Digital Newspaper Project (VTDNP) is a state partner in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). Developed by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC), the NDNP is a long-term, national effort to build a freely accessible, searchable Internet database of historical US newspapers. NEH provides funding to state projects to select and digitize historic newspapers published between 1836 and 1922. LC provides the technical support and framework for preservation digitization. Digitized newspapers are archived by LC and made freely available through the website Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Vermont joined the NDNP …