We got some great news earlier this week from Deborah Thomas, National Digital Newspaper Program Coordinator with the Library of Congress: “Today, we added 275,824 newspaper pages to Chronicling America (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ ) received since our last site update in April.…
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A Visit From Mary Solari
We hosted an important visitor today! Mary Solari and her late husband, Richard, are major benefactors of our Library and the University of Oregon as a whole. They have lent financial support to no less than five library endowments, including…
First ODNP Content Accepted at Library of Congress
Big announcement this week! We’ve received word from the Library of Congress in Washington, DC that our first batch of page scans, OCR and associated metadata has met all requirements and been approved for inclusion on the Chronicling America website. …
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First Look At Digitized Pages
I’ve been busy performing quality control on the first batch of page scans and OCR files I’ve received from our vendor. So far, I’d have to say that they really do impressive work! Here’s an example to illustrate the digital…
What will become of the Springfield News?
Anyone interested in historic newspaper preservation should take a look at this recent article from the Eugene Register-Guard: ‘Springfield history in limbo.’ (Appeared in print Sunday, March 14, 2010.) The story concerns the fate of the Springfield News, a city…
Good News from Washington, D.C.
In the past week, we have received a couple of progress updates from Washington: 1. Our sample microfilm batch, which shipped out on the 18th of February, survived the rash of inclement weather on the east coast… successfully passed through…
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ODNP Trip to Astoria!
Oregon Digital Newspaper Program Director, Karen Estlund, visited the Astoria Public library on Saturday, February 6. The Astoria Public Library was celebrating its 118th birthday! In addition to the celebration, Karen met with the Friends of the Library and gathered…
ODNP Receives Year 2 of LSTA Funding!
The Oregon Digital Newspapers Program is happy to announce that we’ve received year 2 of funding through the Library Services & Technology Act (LSTA) distributed by the Oregon State Library. The funds provided by this second year of this grant…
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Extra! Extra!
We expect to begin posting our first digitized content from Oregon newspapers in the summer/fall of 2010. In the meantime, you can still revisit Oregon’s history through the Library of Congress – National Endowment for the Humanities’ Chronicling America website.…
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Phase 1 Newspaper Titles
The preliminary titles for Phase 1 of the Oregon Digital Newspaper Program have been selected. (The title list is subject to change depending on quality of newspaper microfilm.) National Digital Newspaper Program Titles: Astoria (Daily) Morning Astorian Burns Times-Herald Klamath…
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