[or-roots] Digitizing Newspapers

[Sue Steward]

These are excerpts from the recent e-mails.

http://www.theoutlookonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=124634063941779600  
has an old article about the Grant that will allow the digitizing Oregon 
Newspapers from 1860-1922

It was referred to as the statewide Oregon Digital Newspaper Project and 
can be accessed thru the website:

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/newspapers/#Oregon  is a link to the 
Oregon section


You can also access the Knight Library materials through this link:
http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/

Google has a number of newspapers which have been digitized now. You can 
find them through news.google.com and then going to the archives 
section. I like their ability to search by a date range, and their 
digital images of the newspaper pages are clear enough that a screen 
capture program like abbyy screenshot reader ($10) can be used to do a 
fair job of OCRing the material - or you can stick with the Text view 
that Google provides. Both can save a significant amount of typing if 
the information is clean enough. My favorite newspapers to look at are 
the Spokane newspapers pre 1900 (they did an amazing job of covering the 
whole of the Oregon territory) and the Eugene Register Guard.

Another favorite is the California Digital Newspaper Collection. Like 
the Spokane papers, it did a fantastic job of covering happenings in 
Oregon as well as Northern California, where so many Oregonian pioneers 
traveled too. http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc

Additionally, I have found that the Southern Oregon Digital collection 
has some great materials digitized. While not newspapers, there are a 
lot of other materials to search through
http://soda.sou.edu/about.html





On 5/15/2011 11:16 AM, ffarner at coinet.com wrote:
> Ok. My bad..  I seem to have erased the e-mail that has the e-ddress of
> the national entity who is digitizing the old newspapers.
>
> Could someone [more organized than me] please re-send it to me?
>
> Thank you,  FF
>
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