Nevada Digital Newspaper Project: Chronicling America

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1 Library Faculty Presentations Library Faculty/Staff Scholarship & Research Nevada Digital Newspaper Project: Chronicling America Cory Lampert University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Marina Georgieva University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Yvonne Wilk University of Nevada, Las Vegas Follow this and additional works at: Part of the Archival Science Commons Repository Citation Lampert, C., Georgieva, M., Wilk, Y. (2018, March). Nevada Digital Newspaper Project: Chronicling America. Presentation at Clark County Nevada Genealogy Society, Paseo Verde Library Henderson, NV. Available at: This Presentation is brought to you for free and open access by the Library Faculty/Staff Scholarship & Research at Digital It has been accepted for inclusion in Library Faculty Presentations by an authorized administrator of Digital For more information, please contact

2 Nevada Digital Newspaper Project Chronicling America Cory Lampert Marina Georgieva Yvonne Wilk March 24, 2018 Paseo Verde Library Henderson, NV

3 UNLV Libraries Special Collections and Archives Part I Presenter: Cory Lampert

4 How Did It All Begin? UNLV Special Collections located at Lied Library on the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Open to the public Mission to preserve and document the history of Southern Nevada Archival collections and online collection guides Maps, AV materials, Photographs, costume designs and MORE! Corporate records Correspondence Newspapers not yet digitized and available on microfilm

5 Online = Free and Accessible UNLV Digital Collections part of UNLV Special Collections and Archives Mission to provide increased access to unique, rare, and specialized research collections through digitizing collections and posting on the web 24/7, free, global access to anyone with an Internet Collection Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project Documenting the African-American Experience Nevada Test Site Oral History Project Rebel Yell newspaper and Las Vegas Israelite

6 Nevada History, Our State and Beyond! Mountain West Digital Library Mission to provide free access to over 960,000 resources from universities, colleges, public libraries, museums, historical societies, and government agencies, counties, and municipalities in Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Hawaii, and other parts of the U.S. West. Pioneers in Your Attic - partnered with public libraries, historical societies and cultural heritage institutions to create a regionwide online collection of original pioneer manuscripts that still remain in private hands. These items range from single letters and photographs to diaries and substantial collections of correspondence between pioneers and their families at home. Utah Digital Newspapers one of many state projects

7 Nevada History on the National Stage Digital Public Library of America Discover 20,899,816 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States Family Research Guide to DPLA - with items from many institutions, offers a unique research resource for family historians and genealogists. Family photographs & Family history books Family Bibles Civil War correspondence and diaries Local maps Yearbooks Oral Histories Military records list for genealogists

8 Newspapers The First Draft of History Chronicling America a FREE, Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages. Search America's historic newspaper pages from Use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between present.

9 The Nevada Digital Newspaper Project Part II Presenter: Marina Georgieva

10 The National Digital Newspaper Program The program 2003 Agreement goals responsibilities 2004 Technical guidelines 2005 First grants awarded 2-year grant cycles 100,000 digitized pages Builds on legacy microfilming United States Newspaper Program The partners Awardees 45 states and 1 territory Not participating Alabama Massachusetts New Hampshire Rhode Island Wyoming The product CHRONICLING AMERICA Historic American Newspapers Largest American Newspaper Repository Free access No subscription 12,918,917 historic pages Supports search browse

11 Nevada Digital Newspaper Project 4 Project partners 3 Principal investigators 2 Full-time project staff Awardee UNLV Libraries 2 Project vendors Nevada Digital Newspaper Project is extension of the National Digital Newspaper Program 11-member statewide advisory board First cycle completed Second cycle in progress Third cycle appl. submitted

12 Selecting titles Unified title selection criteria across all states enforced by the Library of Congress Image quality of microfilms Research value Geographic representation Temporal coverage ( ) Bibliographic completeness of microfilms Duplication Statewide Advisory Board and the title selection process Inventory of eligible Nevada newspapers for digitization Selecting titles that are paper of record have great research value represent every Nevada county Calculating estimates to meet the 100,000 pages goal Official Title List approved by Library of Congress Digitization priorities for each grant cycle Essays for each newspaper group are in the public domain are available on microfilms are full runs

13 Title lists Carson Daily Appeal The Carson Daily Appeal The Daily State Register The New Daily Appeal Carson Daily Appeal Morning Appeal The Daily Appeal Carson City Daily Appeal Ely Record The Ely Record Pioche Daily Record Pioche Tri-weekly Record Pioche Weekly Record Lincoln County Record Pioche Weekly Record Pioche Record Tonopah Bonanza Tonopah Bonanza Tonopah Daily Bonanza Elko Independent The Elko Independent Weekly Elko Independent Daily Independent Weekly Independent Elko Independent Eureka Sentinel Eureka Daily Sentinel Eureka Weekly Sentinel The Eureka Sentinel Goldfield News Goldfield News Goldfield News and Weekly Tribune Gold Hill Daily News Gold Hill Daily News Lyon County Times Lyon County Times Yerington Times Silver State The Silver State Daily Silver State The Silver State News The Silver State Walker Lake Bulletin Walker Lake Bulletin Central Nevadan Central Nevadan Wadsworth Dispatch Wadsworth Dispatch Wadsworth Semi-Weekly Dispatch Wadsworth Dispatch Gardnerville Record Gardnerville Record The Record The Record-Courier Churchill / Fallon Standard Churchill Standard The Churchill County Standard The Fallon Standard

14 Digitized titles available online The Carson Daily Appeal The Daily State Register The New Daily Appeal Carson Daily Appeal Morning Appeal The Daily Appeal Carson City Daily Appeal The Ely Record Pioche Daily Record Pioche Tri-weekly Record Pioche Weekly Record Lincoln County Record Pioche Weekly Record Pioche Record Tonopah Bonanza Tonopah Daily Bonanza The Elko Independent Weekly Elko Independent Daily Independent Weekly Independent Elko Independent

15 Nevada Digital Newspaper Project Quick facts UNLV Libraries Digital Collections Department Awarded institution Nevada Digital Newspaper Project Largest newspaper digitization project in Nevada Yields 100,000 pages per 24 mo. Librarians researchers historians journalists Statewide advisory board Nevada State Library and Archives Outsourcing digitization and OCR Nevada Digital Newspaper Project role Partner duplication vendor Digitization vendor Reel prep metadata collation quality review coordination

16 Nevada Digital Newspaper Project Accomplishments and time-lapse 100,000 pages per grant cycle 3 Principle investigators 2 full-time project staff 2 external vendors 143,000 digitized pages days in reel duplication days in reel preparation days in metadata collation days in digitization days in quality review Sept 2016 Mar 2018

17 The Nevada Digital Newspaper Project Website Part III Presenter: Marina Georgieva

18 Website overview The Project About the project The project in the news Meet the project staff Project advisory board Project partners Contact Project updates Newspapers First cycle ( ) Second cycle ( ) Progress update Third cycle ( ) Title changes Interactive map Nevada History Preserving the past Carson City Elko Eureka Goldfield Gold Hill Pioche Silver City Tonopah Yeringtion Resources Posters Flyers Presentation slides Video resources NVDNP videos Partner s videos Searching tips Tutorials Additional resources Events

19 The project and project updates Info about the project History of the Nevada Digital Newspaper Project Who are we project staff, advisory board, partners Contact form and contact information Videos and print publications in media about the project Blog Updates about the project Backstage information and fun facts about our work News and coming events

20 Newspapers Title changes graphic Represents the title changes of major newspaper groups Chronological arrangement title/year Disambiguates the titles with completely different names and relates them to the appropriate group Titles Dedicated tab for each grant cycle 1 st All titles online! 2 nd 50% titles online, keep adding 3 rd tentative title list List of titles for each grant cycle Arranged by newspaper group Chronological order Quick links to Chronicling America essays Easy browsing access to calendar view of each title Geospatial map Visual representation of the title list Provides exact publication location Provides details for each title - dates, links to Chronicling America records Provides better grasp of the different Nevada counties and the titles representing each of them Progress updates Graphically represents the overall project progress Work segmented by batches Track the progress of each batch Great resource to check which titles are being digitized and which are coming next

21 Nevada History Early history of Nevada towns, old photographs from that era, major newspapers and newspaper essays Landing page List of all towns/cities we digitized newspapers from Featured photographs from UNLV UNR digital collections Newspaper titles digitized during the project Preserving the past Fascinating essay about Nevada and the boom town years Featured photographs for each location mentioned in the essay Easy access to digital photographs from Nevada boom town from the UNLV UNR Digital Collections Carson City Elko Tonopah Quick facts Essays Newspaper title changes Links to Chronicling America records Stunning old photographs

22 Resources Handouts from past outreach events Presentations and posters from past conferences and other public events Video resources easy tips to get started with Chronicling America In-house made videos Searching and browsing tutorials Links to external resources related to the project and to Chronicling America

23 Chronicling America Part IV Presenter: Yvonne Wilk

24 MAIN PAGE

25 PAGE FOR SEARCHING THROUGH THE DIRECTORY

26 SEARCH #1 RESULTS

27 LAS VEGAS SUN INFORMATION

28 VIEW COMPLETE HOLDINGS INFORMATION

29 SEARCH BY LANGUAGE

30 SEARCH BY ETHNICITY PRESS

31 SEARCH BY LABOR PRESS

32 DIGITIZED NEWSPAPERS SEARCH

33 FEATURED ESSAY

34 CALENDAR VIEW

35 SEARCH BY ETHNICITIES

36 SEARCH BY ETHNICITIES PART 2

37 SEARCH BY LANGUAGE

38 SHOW ALL DIGITIZED PAPERS

39 ALL DIGITIZED NEWSPAPERS LIST

40 PART III FINDING AN ARTICLE

41 QUICK SEARCH

42 SOURCE CITATION

43 ZOOM, BROWSE,

44 ADVANCE SEARCH

45 SEARCH TERMS

46 SEARCH TERM AND STATE

47 HOW TO SAVE AN ARTICLE

48 SAVING AN ARTICLE

49 CROP AND ENHANCE

50 SOCIAL MEDIA

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