Project to Make Historical Archives of Newspapers Freely Available Online

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>From:         John Jaeger <johnja@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: [DIG_REF] Project to Make Historical Archives of Newspapers 
>Freely Available Online
>
>             An interesting CNN.Com article, "U.S. Archives Offer Digital
>Look at America's Past," discusses plans for making 30 million pages
>scanned of old newspapers (dating from 1836 to 1922) freely available on
>the Internet by 2006.  This major initiative is a cooperative effort of
>the National Endowment from the Humanities and the Library of Congress,
>and the goal is to make historical content available to students,
>teachers, researchers, scholars, and other interested persons.  The full
>article is found at
>http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/11/17/oldnewspapers.ap/index.html
>
>
>Dr. John Jaeger
>Reference Librarian
>Dallas Baptist University


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