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10-14-2018

Nevada Digital Newspaper Project

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

Yvonne Wilk University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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Repository Citation Gaxiola, C., Wilk, Y. (2018, October). Nevada Digital Newspaper Project. Presentation at Nevada Library Association Annual Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Available at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/libfacpresentation/173

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Part of the National Initiative: Chronicling America Scholars & Researchers | K-12 | Casual Browsing | Genealogist | Lifelong Learners

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Presenters: Carrie Gaxiola & Yvonne Wilk University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries. Digital Collections, a Unit of Special Collections and Archives PART I: ABOUT THE PROJECT

Carrie Gaxiola

. Clips on the side to show you samples (not always relevant to content of 1884-09-11 discussion on slide) Morning Appeal (Carson City) . We are passing around loot! . Take a card to contact us for help, more info, or anything else! . Hold questions until the end (we are tight on time!) . Part II : Yvonne Wilk will show you the action – finding materials in Chronicling America, our social media activity and more… Always FREE NO sign-ups NO questions ______OPEN TO ALL ABOUT THE PROJECT: Who has heard of, or used Chronicling America site via Library of Congress? So, what is Chronicling America?

Main goal: Digitize the Nation’s historical newspapers

You can search, save, download, print, and clip articles FREE!

https://nvdnp.wordpress.com/the-project/project-partners/ PROJECT ADVISORY BOARD:

• The statewide Project Advisory Board is comprised of historians, archivists, educators, and librarians familiar with Nevada’s history and newspapers

• The board is responsible for selecting and ranking newspaper titles for digitization

• The eleven person Advisory Board will be facilitated by Jeff Kintop (Administrator, NSLA) and Dr. Peter Michel (UNLV Special Lyon County Times, 1877 Collections) https://nvdnp.wordpress.com/the-project/project-advisory-board/

www.nvdnp.wordpress.com | www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov Title Selection

Microfilm Positives and Negatives (Above) Goldfield News 01/19/1906 Metadata Creation / (Right) Goldfield News 01/26/1907  Collation Scan, OCR, XML files

Quality Review

Library of Congress platform review – OCR

Deliver to LoC

Full text searchable papers online

www.nvdnp.wordpress.com | www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov Eureka Daily Sentinel; Feb. 12, NATIONAL PROJECT 1874 Not just Nevada…

• In Nevada, we have every County and our Capital represented

• Our papers range from 1863-1922 (perhaps 1923 soon!)

• Third round – 2018-2020 Each produces 100,000 of digitized newspaper pages

www.nvdnp.wordpress.com | www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov WHY NEWSPAPERS?

First draft of our history

• Entertainment • Communication • Lost items, who is in town, advertising, vital stats, world and regional news, and more! • What they wore, what they ate,… • How they reacted to events and people • The economy (mining!) • Track trends over time • Politics (learn where our street names come from!) • Trends: FIRES!!! Taverns, taverns and more taverns! Baths for $0.50, potions for illnesses • Topics: Women's Rights and suffrage, WWI, Mexican- American War, Conflicts with Native Americans and other European settlers • Fashion! Shoes, hats, etc… Children, women, and men • Children WORKED and went to school on the side • Xenophobia Eureka Daily Sentinel Dec 25 1873 • Groups of Diversity: School taught in French

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Eureka Sentinel, 03/28/1914

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

Photo courtesy: – University of Nevada, Reno Digital Collections: www.library.unr.edu/DigiColl – University of Nevada, Las Vegas Digital Collections: www.digital.library.unlv.edu

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CONTENTS a sample

Eureka Sentinel, 03/20/1915 Lyon County Times 07/19/1874

Eureka Sentinel 05/16/1908

Eureka Weekly Sentinel, 02/06/1889 context

Lyon Co Times 07/10/1878; (Samoa) 07/23/1879; US rest LCT 04/03/1880; race war Goldfield News 09/1910; Pic w knife LCT 04/12/1902; state news LCT 01/26/1878; passed through Carson Daily Appeal 09/24/1875; librarian LCT 07/16/1879 Scholars Primary sources for many historical events: • Women’s suffrage • WWI (all wars) • Human rights • Specific people of • Immigration interest (Twain) • Early mining • Language • Track trends • Mapping Texts http://mappingtexts.org/

 Election results: Town of Midas Lyon County Times, 11/24/1917 November 8, 1916

Carson City Daily Appeal, 10/20/1915 Daily Independent Elko NV 10/15/1913  Eureka Sentinel 01/21/1922 http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/extras/ www.nvdnp.wordpress.com | www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov SCHOLARLY INTEREST CONT

 Lyon Co News Eureka Sentinel, 10/04/1913 06/26/1878 above. Eureka Sentinel, 1916/03/20 Genealogists

• Millions of personal announcements • Vitals: Births & Deaths • Marriages • Accidents and Injuries • List of registered voters • School records (yes, they reported how many days the child made it to school and their grades in math…) Gold Hill Daily News, 07/11/1878 • Patent applications Creative Commons by GDJ • And more… remember, newspapers were THE communication!

Carson Daily Appeal, 09/24/1875 Tonopah Bonanza 5/26/1906 Gold Hill Daily News, 01/02/1869

Carson City Daily Appeal, 10/20/1915 www.nvdnp.wordpress.com | www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov Genealogists

Eureka Daily Sentinel May 13, 1873

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www.nvdnp.wordpress.com | www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov THE LIFELONG LEARNER

• Browsing or Use Recommended topics: • This day in history • Territory to Statehood • Flappers • Crime and trials • Jack the Ripper • Seward’s Folly • Comics • Prohibition & Law Goldfield News • And much, much more and Weekly Tribune, https://www.loc.gov/rr/news/topics/index.html 07/15/1916 & 11/4/1916

www.nvdnp.wordpress.com | www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov K-12 TEACHING RESOURCES

The history we receive is from the adult perspective. It is important to allow children and teens/young adults to have a chance to use primary materials to see history through their eyes. Curriculum plans available by grade, era, and topic on the Chronicling America Site!

Example: Grades 3-8 Dust Bowl: Use of Karen Hesse’s Newbery Award-winning “Out of the Dust” as an introduction to this event, identify with the personal experiences of youth in the 1930s, and then students correlate the fictional text with actual visual, auditory, and manuscript accounts. Objectives: Students will be able to: 1- examine primary source materials to gain knowledge of the Dust Bowl; 2- use historical fiction to understand the human aspect of the Dust Bowl experience; 3- relate primary source materials from American Memory collections to passages, characters, and events from the novel; 4- develop research skills and strategies, such as keyword searches, for finding information.

Credit Jan King and Rena Nisbet

www.nvdnp.wordpress.com | www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov K-12 USE OF CHRONICLING AMERICA http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/extras/

& http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/ K-12 Example: Grades 9-12

American Indian Reservation Controversies: Introduce students to events around the 1870s – Use PBL (Problem Based Learning) in which the student is confronted or faced with a real world problem which has no preconceived right or wrong answers. Using various teaching/learning strategies, which include brainstorming, role playing, and oral presentations, the students access primary sources and other background sources to arrive at a recommendation, based on the information. The teacher, librarian, and other support staff act as guides or advisors through most of the process.

Objectives: Students will be able to: 1-Use primary sources effectively to gain an understanding of the history of government relations, policies, and experiences with American Indian peoples. 2-Become effective users of historic newspapers via Chronicling America

Topic American Indian History Era Rise of Industrial America, 1876-1900 Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929 What would they find? Credits: Brett Silva & Peter Milbury context Critical thinking

1- Goldfield News and Weekly Tribune 05/06/1916; 2-Eureka Sentinel 05/27/1916’ 3- Eureka Sentinel 08/12/1877; Eureka Weekly Sentinel 04/20/1901; Daily Independent 05/05/1896; Eager to learn how to get articles?

Searching, clipping, saving, social media, and more!

Introducing, Yvonne Wilk! Part II Searching, Clipping, and Saving content. LIVE DISPLAY  Fin.

Questions?