More Indianapolis Newspaper Issues Added to Chronicling America
The Library of Congress recently ingested another 12,533 pages of Indiana newspapers into Chronicling America! This brings the total number of Indiana newspaper pages in ChronAm to over 80,000! The Indiana State Library staff are digitizing these newspapers as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program.
Among the titles and dates recently added:
§ The Indianapolis Journal (1 September 1902 – 8 June 1904)
§ Indiana State Sentinel (2 January 1845 – 30 December 1852)
§ Weekly Indiana State Sentinel (10 February 1855 – 25 December 1856)
§ Indiana State Sentinel (January 1861 – 30 May 1864)
§ The Indiana State Sentinel (6 January 1874 – 29 December 1874, 7 January 1880 – 29 June 1881, 7 January 1891 – 24 June 1891)
You can watch for project updates at the Indiana Historic Newspaper Digitization Project blog.
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Post ReplySince I originally submitted this post in March 2014, and it took about 10 months to be posted, a lot has changed with the Indiana State Library's newspaper digitization efforts.
Currently, there are nearly 150,000 Indiana newspapers pages in Chronicling America.
The Indiana State Library also launched Hoosier State Chronicles in April 2014. HSC repurposes the Chronicling America content but also includes unique content as well. There will be 200,000 pages in HSC by the end of February 2015. Special features of HSC allow users to crowd-source the OCR and tag content.
Finally, the Indiana State Library has partnered with Newspapers.com to digitize some of our newspaper microfilm. As part of our agreement, all Indiana residents can get free access to the content ISL is providing to Newspapers.com through INSPIRE. Currently there are over 600,000 pages available through the INSPIRE portal. Approximately 50,000 newly digitized pages will be added monthly.
[Ed. note (PBK): We apologize for the long interval between postings. H-Net moved to a new platform, had to train over 200 editors to use it, and has been playing catch-up to get current with submissions. H-Net runs on the volunteer efforts of hundreds of people. We would be delighted if any qualified H-Indiana subscribers would like to step up and join H-Indiana's editorial team. Having a group of field experts in place at the network would definitely cure the problem of delayed submissions. If you are interested, write a letter of interest to Associate Director Dr Jesse Draper.]