Seven Days reporter, Ethan de Seife, visited VTDNP office early in December 2014 and interviewed our staff members. Here’s the article published both print and digital copy: For Future Reference: Librarians Are Digitizing Vermont’s Past.
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VTDNP @ the 2014 Vermont Alliance for the Social Studies Conference
The Vermont Digital Newspaper Project (VTDNP) was invited to give a workshop to teachers at this year’s Vermont Alliance for the Social Studies Conference in Manchester, Vermont, at the Equinox Resort & Spa, on Friday, December 5, 2014.
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VTDNP at NELA Conference 2014 & History Day Workshop
It’s been a busy week for VTDNP crew. On Monday, October 20, 2014, our project librarian, Erenst Anip presented at the New England Library Association (NELA) Annual Conference in Boxborough, MA (about an hour drive from Boston). There, he co-presented with Gail Hurley from the Connecticut Digital Newspaper Project (CTDNP) on NDNP to spread the word about Chronicling America to the wider New England area and hopefully other neighboring states of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Maine will join NDNP soon. Gail presented on an overview of NDNP grant and Erenst talked about the details of the grant.
NDNP Nuts & Bolts: Components of the grant – NELA 2014 presentation from Vermont Digital Newspaper Project
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150 Years Ago: The St. Albans Raid as Recounted in the News
“The town is full of the wildest rumors, and speculation runs rife,” reported the Vermont Transcript on October 21, 1864, only a few days after the northern-most land attack in the Civil War in the town of St. Albans on October 19th, 1864.
The raiders first appeared a few days earlier, staying at a variety of St. Albans lodgings, according to the Vermont Transcript:
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ALL content from VTDNP Phase 2 are available online
Today, October 14, 2014, marks another milestone for our project. All of the digitized newspaper pages from phase 2 are now accessible on Chronicling America, all 254,253 of them along with 15 newspaper title essays (more to come!). The last batch consist of Orleans County Monitor issues from 1908-1922.
As part of the NDNP requirement, we will send all of the duplicate negative microfilm reels of the newspaper digitized to Library of Congress for preservation and safe keeping. Here’s what it looks like before it gets packed and shipped to LC’s vault:
Now, onward with phase 3 and adding more Vermont historic content to the Internet!
-Erenst Anip, Project Librarian