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Lifelong Library Emeriti Program Newspapers: Read All About It Online !

Lifelong Library Emeriti Program Newspapers: Read All About It Online !. PROGRAM. Michael Unsworth: “Newspapers in the Digital Age” Michael Rodriguez: “Digital Newspaper Resources” Jon Harrison: “Finding Your Newspaper Online”. Newspapers in the Digital Age. Michael E. Unsworth

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Lifelong Library Emeriti Program Newspapers: Read All About It Online !

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  1. Lifelong Library Emeriti ProgramNewspapers: Read All About It Online!

  2. PROGRAM • Michael Unsworth: “Newspapers in the Digital Age” • Michael Rodriguez: “Digital Newspaper Resources” • Jon Harrison: “Finding Your Newspaper Online”

  3. Newspapers in the Digital Age Michael E. Unsworth MSU Libraries unsworth@msu.edu

  4. Current Tribulations:www.onthemedia.org/

  5. OUTLINE • Nature & Function • Modes: • Print • Microfilm • Digital • Observations and Remarks

  6. Nature and Function of Newspapers

  7. WHAT IS A NEWSPAPER?AN EXISTENTIAL MATTER 15 USCS § 1802: "a publication produced on newsprint paper which is published in one or more issues weekly (including as one publication any daily newspaper and any Sunday newspaper published by the same owner in the same city, community, or metropolitan area), and in which a substantial portion of the content is devoted to the dissemination of news and editorial opinion.”

  8. EDITIONS From 1990-2009, it had: • L.A. ed. • Orange County ed. (ceased) • Venture County ed. • Inland Empire ed. • San Diego County ed. (ceased) • National ed. (ceased)

  9. Constantly Evolving Partial Genealogy. In 1956: • Examiner (Brooklyn, N.Y.) MERGED WITH American Hebrew (1935 ) TO BECOME • American examiner • Jewish week and the American examiner • New York Jewish week and the American examiner • New York Jewish Week

  10. PRINT MODE

  11. ACCESSING CONTENT WAS DIFFICULT

  12. MICROFILM MODE

  13. PUBLICLY AVAILABLE INDEXES

  14. DIGITAL MODE

  15. INDEXING • Keyword, e.g. Factiva (articles from hundreds of newspapers):trash or garbage or solid waste • Subject, e.g., National Newspaper Abstracts (of 3 major newspapers):waste materials

  16. AGGREGATOR PROLIFERATION

  17. DIGITIZATION PROJECTS

  18. MOST HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS ARE DIGITIZED FROM MICROFILM

  19. FREE ARTICLE FROM GOOGLE NEWS

  20. Observations and Remarks

  21. YOU GET WHAT PAY FOR

  22. DATA LOSS

  23. “Huggins said that he sold Paper of Record to Google in 2006, but that the deal was secret until late last year, when Google exercised its right to have Huggins stop managing the site. At that point, Huggins expected a transition to having the material appear on Google, but the material just disappeared from public view. “

  24. EDITION CONFUSION EXACERBATED:WHICH ONE SHOULD BE ARCHIVED?

  25. ARE VIDEOS ARCHIVED?

  26. MICROFILM HAS ITS USES

  27. SUMMING UP • Nature & Function of Newspapers • Modes: • Print • Microfilm • Digital

  28. END

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