Historic newspapers on Chronicling America hold an abundance of information regarding local and national news and cultural trends of the past. Newspapers are also particularly helpful in uncovering the history of the built landscape of our communities. Continue reading Researching historic buildings on Chronicling America
Hello all,
In case you haven’t noticed, we have migrated our website to a WordPress-based format. The website address remains the same: library.uvm.edu/vtnp.
Today, August 29, 2014, marks the last working day of VTDNP Phase 2. Vermont now have 243,952 pages digitized and made available online on Chronicling America. We have approximately 10,000 more pages under review before being added to the website. We will be in Phase 3 starting next work day (September 2, 2014) and working towards digitizing another 100,000 pages of Vermont historic newspapers. Last but not least, we would like to thank everyone involved so far for their support and energy. Have a great Labor Day weekend!
On Tuesday, August 12, VTDNP Project Librarian, Erenst Anip and Digital Support Specialist, Karyn Norwood went to Middlebury, VT to attend a meeting of the Cultural Heritage Professional Gathering (CHPG) at the Ilsley Public Library. There, Erenst & Karyn gave a pecha-kucha format presentation (20 slides at 20 seconds each) about VTDNP and Chronicling America in front of 25 cultural heritage professionals coming from Vermont, New Hampshire, and New York. In addition, Erenst & Karyn got to visit one of VTDNP’s state partner, the Ilsley Public Library, and Chris Kirby, one of our Project Management Group member.
Continue reading Bringing VTDNP to Middlebury, VT & Geneva, Switzerland back to back
Another 10,000 pages added to Chronicling America this week from Phase II of the Vermont Digital Newspaper Project! New content from Orleans and Orange County are now online.
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