Sunday, April 01, 2007

Newspapers On The Library of Congress Website

Looks like the U.S. Newspaper Program http://www.neh.gov/projects/usnp.html is starting to pay off. I have always liked Colorado & Utah's free digital newspapers. Now it looks like you will be able to access the digital papers from The Library of Congress website. Now in BETA, Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/index.html only covers 25 papers in 7 states between 1900-1910, but this will be an interesting project to watch.

The Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers website will also let you find information about newspapers published in the United States from 1690 to the present in the Chronicling America Directory & tell you where you can find them.

Hoping to find the original digital newspaper websites for a larger database I was able to find these:
CA-http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cndpsearch.pl
DC-not found
FL-http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/UFDC/UFDC.aspx?c=fdnl1
KY-http://kdl.kyvl.org/cgi/t/text/text-idx?;page=simpleext&c=kynews
NY-not found
UT-http://www.lib.utah.edu/digital/unews/index.html
VA-not found

Good site for finding world wide digital newspapers:
The International Coalition on Newspapers-http://icon.crl.edu/digitization.htm

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