A presentation about the Vermont Digital Newspaper Project. We participated in a "Pechakucha" event at the UVM Fleming Museum on September 15, 2011. Pechakucha is a format where twenty seconds are alloted for twenty slides.
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Pecha Kucha Talk on VTDNP, Chronicling America, and Historic Newspapers
1. slideshow by
Birdie MacLennan
Tom McMurdo
Prudence Doherty
from the UVM Libraries
VTDNP logo & banner by Heather Kennedy
Pecha Kucha Night
Fleming Museum
September 15, 2011
2. Vermont Digital Newspaper Project, part of
NDNP - http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/
the National Digital Newspaper Program
a partnership between the
Library of Congress & the National Endowment for the Humanities
A long-term effort to provide permanent access to a national digital
resource of newspaper bibliographic information and historic newspapers,
selected and digitized by NEH-funded institutions (awardees) from all U.S.
states and territories.
3. Partners: Project Management Group
& Statewide Advisory Committee
Digital newspapers freely available:
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
Project planning & Title selection:
a team effort!
4. Title Selections – Phase I (2010-2012)
100,000 pages of Vermont newspapers
(1836-1922) …
Caledonian -
Caledonia Co.
Windham County Democrat
Vermont Transcript -
Franklin Co.
Vermont Phoenix -
Windham Co.
Watchman / State Journal
title family - Washington Co.
Middlebury Register -
Addison Co.
Spirit of the Age –
Windsor Co.
Bennington
Banner
Globe - Rutland