Nevada Digital Newspaper Project

Library Faculty Presentations Library Faculty/Staff Scholarship & Research

5-2-2018

Carrie Gaxiola University of Nevada, Las Vegas, [email protected]

Marina Georgieva University of Nevada, Las Vegas, [email protected]

Peter Michel University of Nevada, Las Vegas, [email protected]

Yvonne Wilk University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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Repository Citation Gaxiola, C., Georgieva, M., Michel, P., Wilk, Y. (2018, May). Nevada Digital Newspaper Project. Presentation at Windmill Library Presentation, Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Windmill Library Nevada Digital Newspaper Project Chronicling America

Carrie Gaxiola Marina Georgieva Peter Michel Yvonne Wilk UNLV Libraries | Special Collections and Archives Part I

Presenter: Carrie Gaxiola

www.nvdnp.wordpress.com | www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov Special Collections & Archives for everyone!

• Located on campus, in the library • Mission: Preserve and document the history of Southern Nevada • Books, serials, maps, AV materials, photographs, oral histories… • Reading room and reference assistance • Newspapers – not yet digitized and available on microfilm • AND MORE!! Come visit or visit our website!

www.nvdnp.wordpress.com | www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov Digital Collections: 24/7 Access

• UNLV Digital Collections – part of UNLV Special Collections and Archives

• Mission: Provide increased access to unique, rare, and specialized research collections through digitizing collections and posting on the web

• Example of *some* collections: • African-American Experience in Las Vegas • Showgirls • Dino at the Sands • Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage • Howard Hughes • AND MORE…

www.nvdnp.wordpress.com | www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov https://www.library.unlv.edu/ Visit us! Online or in person

FREE to all! Regional and National History Resources! Mountain West Digital Library: Mission to provide FREE access to over 960,000 resources from universities, colleges, public libraries, museums, historical societies and more (Regional) https://mwdl.org/

Digital Public Library of America: Discover 21,436,194 FREE images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States https://dp.la/ Newspapers! • Why Newspapers? • The first draft of history! • Shows the daily lives of people • What they wore, bought, watched, felt… • Historical events and their perspectives • Track historical development of particular topics • Keep in mind: CONTEXT

• Nevada Digital Newspaper Project | Chronicling America o FREE internet based, searchable database of U.S. Newspapers

Source: Morning appeal. (Carson City, Nev.) November 10, 1883

www.nvdnp.wordpress.com | www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov The Nevada Digital Newspaper Project

Part II

Presenter: Marina Georgieva

www.nvdnp.wordpress.com | www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov The National Digital Newspaper Program

The program The partners The product

2003 Agreement | goals | responsibilities CHRONICLING AMERICA Historic American Newspapers 2004 Technical guidelines 2005 First grants awarded • Largest American 2-year grant cycles Awardees Newspaper Repository • Free access 100,000 digitized pages 45 states and 1 territory • No subscription Not participating • 13,101,507 historic pages Builds on legacy Alabama | Massachusetts | microfilming United New Hampshire | Rhode Island |Wyoming • Supports search | browse States Newspaper Program

www.nvdnp.wordpress.com | www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov Nevada Digital Newspaper Project

4 Project partners

3 Principal 2 Full-time Awardee investigators project staff UNLV Libraries 2 Project vendors

Nevada Digital Newspaper Project is extension of the National Digital Newspaper Program

First cycle Second cycle Third cycle 11-member statewide completed__ in progress__ appl. submitted__ advisory board 2014-2016 2016-2018 2018-2020

www.nvdnp.wordpress.com | www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov Selecting titles

Unified title selection criteria across all states enforced by the Library of Congress • Image quality of microfilms • Temporal coverage (1789-1963) • Research value • Bibliographic completeness of microfilms • Geographic representation • Duplication

Statewide Advisory Board and the title selection process • Inventory of eligible Nevada newspapers for digitization • Selecting titles that • are paper of record • are in the public domain • have great research value • are available on microfilms • represent every Nevada county • are full runs • Calculating estimates to meet the 100,000 pages goal • Official Title List approved by Library of Congress • Digitization priorities for each grant cycle • Essays for each newspaper group

www.nvdnp.wordpress.com | www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov Digitized titles available online

The Carson Daily Appeal The Ely Record Tonopah Bonanza The Elko Independent Gold Hill Daily News 1866-1870 1872-1872 1901-1909 1869-1872 1863-1873 The Daily State Register Pioche Daily Record Tonopah Daily Bonanza Weekly Elko Independent 1870-1872 1872-1876 1906-1922 1872-1887 The New Daily Appeal Pioche Tri-weekly Record Daily Independent 1872-1873 1876-1876 1887-1915 Carson Daily Appeal Pioche Weekly Record Weekly Independent 1873-1877 1877-1900 1887-1914 Morning Appeal Lincoln County Record Elko Independent 1877-1906 1900-1905 1915-1921 The Daily Appeal Pioche Weekly Record 1906-1907 1906-1908 Carson City Daily Appeal Pioche Record 1907-1922 1909-1922

www.nvdnp.wordpress.com | www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov Nevada Digital Newspaper Project Quick facts

UNLV Libraries Librarians | researchers | Nevada Digital Newspaper Project Digital Collections Department historians | journalists Largest newspaper digitization project in Nevada Awarded institution Yields 100,000 pages per 24 mo. Statewide advisory board

Nevada State Library Nevada Digital Newspaper Project Outsourcing digitization and OCR and Archives role

Reel prep | metadata collation | Partner | duplication vendor Digitization vendor quality review | coordination

www.nvdnp.wordpress.com | www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov Nevada Digital Newspaper Project Accomplishments and time-lapse

100,000 pages per grant cycle

3 Principle 2 full-time 2 external 153,500 investigators project staff vendors digitized pages

161 193 100 143 35 days in days in days in days in days in reel duplication reel preparation metadata collation digitization quality review

Sept 2016 Apr 2018 632

www.nvdnp.wordpress.com | www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov The Nevada Digital Newspaper Project Website

Part III

Presenter: Marina Georgieva

www.nvdnp.wordpress.com | www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov Website overview

The Project Nevada History Resources • About the project • Preserving the past • Posters • The project in the news • Carson City • Flyers • Meet the project staff • Elko • Presentation slides • Project advisory board • Eureka • Video resources • Project partners • Goldfield . NVDNP videos • Contact • Gold Hill . Partner’s videos Project updates • Pioche . Searching tips Tutorials Newspapers • Silver City • Additional resources • First cycle (2014-2016) • Tonopah Events • Second cycle (2016-2018) • Yeringtion . Progress update • Third cycle (2018-2020) • Title changes • Interactive map https://nvdnp.wordpress.com/

www.nvdnp.wordpress.com | www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov The project and project updates

Info about the project • History of the Nevada Digital Newspaper Project • Who are we | project staff, advisory board, partners • Contact form and contact information • Videos and print publications in media about the project

Blog • Updates about the project • Backstage information and fun facts about our work • News and coming events

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www.nvdnp.wordpress.com | www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov Newspapers

Title changes graphic • Represents the title changes of major newspaper groups • Chronological arrangement title/year • Disambiguates the titles with completely different names and relates them to the appropriate group

Geospatial map • Visual representation of the title list https://nvdnp.wordpress.com/newspapers/ • Provides exact publication location • Provides details for each title - dates, links to Titles Chronicling America records • Dedicated tab for each grant cycle • Provides better grasp of the different Nevada • 1st | All titles online! counties and the titles representing each of them • 2nd | 50% titles online, keep adding • 3rd | tentative title list Progress updates • List of titles for each grant cycle • Graphically represents the overall project • Arranged by newspaper group progress • Chronological order • Work segmented by batches • Quick links to Chronicling America essays • Track the progress of each batch • Easy browsing access to calendar view of each title • Great resource to check which titles are being digitized and which are coming next

www.nvdnp.wordpress.com | www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov Nevada History

• Early history of Nevada towns, old photographs from that era, major newspapers and newspaper essays • Landing page • List of all towns/cities we digitized newspapers from • Featured photographs from UNLV | UNR digital collections • Newspaper titles digitized during the project • Preserving the past • Fascinating essay about Nevada and the boom town years • Featured photographs for each location mentioned in the essay • Easy access to digital photographs from Nevada boom town from the UNLV | UNR Digital Collections • Carson City | Elko | Tonopah • Quick facts • Essays • Newspaper title changes • Links to Chronicling America records • Stunning old photographs https://nvdnp.wordpress.com/nevada-history/

www.nvdnp.wordpress.com | www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov Resources

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• Handouts from past outreach events • Presentations and posters from past conferences and other public events • Video resources | easy tips to get started with Chronicling America • In-house made videos • Searching and browsing tutorials • Links to external resources related to the project and to Chronicling America

www.nvdnp.wordpress.com | www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov Chronicling America

Part IV

Presenter: Yvonne Wilk

www.nvdnp.wordpress.com | www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov HOME PAGE

www.nvdnp.wordpress.com | www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov SEARCHING

www.nvdnp.wordpress.com | www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov DIGITIZED NEWSPAPERS MORE INFORMATION CALENDAR VIEW SEARCH BY ETHNICITY SEARCH BY LANGUAGE Show All Digitized Newspapers Finding an article Search Results Source Citation Advance Search Refining our search Saving an article Saving an article part II Crop and Adjust US Newspaper Directory Las Vegas Morning Sun VIEW COMPLETE HOLDINGS INFORMATION SEARCH BY LANGUAGE SEARCH BY ETHNICITY SEARCH BY LABOR PRESS Social Media

• Every Month on the 3rd Tuesday of every month we invite you to join us for a special Facebook and Twitter celebration when we showcase a selected subject matter, whether it be a holiday or special remembrance - for example this month we celebrated True Crime Tuesday. This monthly forecast is organized by Chronicling America all participating states find and post articles from newspapers published in their states. They are funny, interesting, strange, unusual or simply fascinating. • And now just few examples of our posts Social Media Social Media

Facebook: www.facebook.com/nvdnp Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvdnp Good Day

• We hope that this resource will be useful to you when exploring early Nevada. • The Nevada Digital Newspaper Project is an effort to make Newspapers from early Nevada’s History freely available. • We thank you for your time and wish you a wonderful day.