News junkies rejoice! Google has begun scanning microfilm from various newspapers’ historic archives to make them searchable online, further pushing libraries towards obsolescence (just kidding, I think). The searches can be had first through Google News, and will eventually be available on every papers’ own web site. Much like its book project, Google will shoulder the cost of digitising archives, though it’ll avoid the embarrassing legal snafu’s of yesteryear by actually asking permission to scan this time around. [NYTimes]
Greg
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at 12:51 PMresource of interest might be The Nambour Chronicle & North Coast Advertiser was first published 31st July 1903 and continued as the local newspaper for the Sunshine Coast Region (north of Brisbane, Australia) until 1983. It has been scanned from microfilm and made available, in digital format, the entire full text run of this newspaper from 1903 to 1955. Researchers are now able to search the entire paper by keyword or issue date and can download and print directly from the paper. This provides easy and convenient access to this valuable historical newspaper
http://www.nambour-chronicle.com
Not on the same scale as the Google project but still worth a visit.
grant
Monday, October 20, 2008 at 11:50 AMi would mainly want australian newspapers eg sydney morning herald
grant
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