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.

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

5. … from Microfilm …

6. … to Digital …

7. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn
84023255/issues/
Links in newspaper
catalog records, too!
http://vtnp.uvm.edu/

8. Chronicling America
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
is where you find our newspapers

9. How to search: example with search term “Virginia”
in the Free Press and limited to July-August 1861:

10. Pages appear with the search term “Virginia” highlighted:

11. Click through to the Aug. 9, 1861 issue:

12. Close up of an article about 1st Vermont Regiment:

13. Search, limited to Vermont:
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/newspapers/Vermont

14. Click through to Vermont Farmer:

15. “An agricultural and family newspaper for
the ruralists of the Green Mountain State.”

16. Increasing Circulation, Finding New Subscribers

17. Advertisements to Pay the Bills

18. Better Farmers, Better Farms

19. News—Local, State, Regional, National

20. The Women’s Department