The Digital Newspaper Team welcomed its newest member this week when the A0 planetary scanner went online. Last week, the newspaper team attended a one-day training workshop to learn how to scan newspapers on the scanner. This week, we are scheduling the first projects to be scanned on it. The planetary scanner can digitize newspapers… Read more »
Minutes from Oklahoma, in the corner of the Texas Panhandle, lies the unassuming Lipscomb County, Texas, housing around 3300 people spread across 932 square miles. The Higgins Public Library in Lipscomb County collaborated with the Wolf Creek Heritage Museum in Lipscomb and UNT Libraries in Denton to apply for a Tocker grant in January of… Read more »
Good news from the Digital Newspaper Team! The Tocker Foundation has announced their Spring 2012 newspaper digitization grant recipients, and five Texas libraries were awarded. Through the Tocker Foundation awards, communities from across Texas can build new collections–or add more issues to existing collections–on The Portal to Texas History. By digitizing on the Portal, these… Read more »
I am pleased to announce that we will soon be adding more historic issues of the El Paso Herald, from 1898-1901. Very soon, you will be able to read the dramatic account of the joint execution of Antonio Flores and Geronimo Parra, on January 5, 1900. Each man concealed sharpened daggars within their jail cells,… Read more »
The Portal to Texas History hosts an ever-growing collection of digital newspapers published between 1829 and the present day. Here are a few gems I’d like you to know about: Saturday, December 12, 1835, “Camp Before Bejar,” Telegraph and Texas Register On December 4, 1835, after a reconnaissance expedition in the southwest, Ben Milam learned… Read more »
By the end of this February, we will have ingested a total of 1,000,000 pages of Texas newspapers to The Portal to Texas History: TDNP Collection. Because a newspaper represents its community, and an entire newspaper run is an ever-growing map of community identity, digital preservation and open access to newspapers is incredibly valuable to… Read more »
