Please join the Illinois Newspaper Project in welcoming Deborah Thomas from the Library of Congress to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We invite you to attend her presentation, “Headlines, History, and Hats: American Historical Newspapers and Chronicling America,” at 10:00 a.m. in 126 GSLIS on Thursday, June 30.
Deborah Thomas, Program Coordinator for the National Digital Newspaper Program at the Library of Congress, will talk about the effort to digitize historically significant newspapers from all over the United States and make them freely available through Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, a web site hosted by the Library of Congress.
In June 2009, the University of Illinois Library received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to participate in the National Digital Newspaper Program. Four Illinois newspapers — The Chicago Eagle, The Broad Ax, The Day Book, and The Cairo Bulletin — totaling 100,000 pages of content have already been added to the Chronicling America repository.
Staff from the Illinois Newspaper Project, Mary Stuart (Principal Investigator), Amy Sullivan (Preservationist and Project Coordinator), and Tracy Nectoux (Cataloger and Metadata and Quality Review Specialist), will be available to answer questions about the Illinois Newspaper Project following the presentation.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
10:00 a.m.–noon
The Graduate School of Library and Information Science
501 East Daniel Street
Room 126
Champaign, IL 61820
Presentation free and open to the public