Save the Date: Tuesday, March 24th
What Can You Do with 3 Million Pages of Digitized North Carolina Newspapers?
An Introduction to Research, Teaching, and Engaged Scholarship Using the North Carolina Historical Newspapers Digital Collection
The Digital Innovation Lab, the Howard W. Odum Institute for Research in Social Science, and the UNC Libraries cordially invite scholars (faculty, administrators, librarians and archivists, and graduate students) from the UNC community to explore potential research, teaching, and engaged scholarship applications of the North Carolina Historical Newspapers Digital Collection: 3.2 (and counting) million pages of pre-1923 newspapers from across the state, digitized and made available to the UNC community through a partnership between the UNC Libraries, the Digital Innovation Lab, and Newspapers.com.
Tuesday, March 24th, 2015
2-5 pm
Pleasants Family Assembly Room
Wilson Library
Followed by a reception in Wilson Lobby
Dr. Robert Allen, James Logan Godfrey Distinguished Professor of American Studies at UNC Chapel Hill and Director of UNC’s Digital Innovation Lab
Dr. Thomas Carsey, Thomas J. Pearsall Distinguished Professor in the Department of Political Science at UNC Chapel Hill and Director of the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science
Dr. Ryan Cordell, Assistant Professor of English and Founding Core Faculty of the NULab for Texts, Maps and Networks at Northeastern University; Co-Director, Viral Texts: Mapping Networks of Reprinting in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals
Nicholas Graham, Program Coordinator, North Carolina Digital Heritage Center, UNC Libraries
Krista Hegerhorst, Head of Institutional Partnerships, Newspapers.com
About the North Carolina Historical Newspapers Digital Collection
Over the last year, Ancestry.com and its subsidiary Newspapers.com have partnered with UNC to exponentially expand access to millions of North Carolina newspapers. Newspapers.com has digitized all pre-1923 newspapers on microfilm in the North Carolina Collection—some 3600 reels or about 3 million pages. This is the largest collection of statewide newspapers ever digitized and made available by an academic institution.
The collection is already available for word/name searching to anyone with an ONYEN via the UNC Library website (go to library.unc.edu and search for "newspapers.com"). Use of the digital files for "big data" applications (text mining, topic modeling, network analysis) is also being explored.
The North Carolina Historical Newspapers Digital Collection includes general interest newspapers from across the state as well as foreign language publications (like the Goldsboro Südliche Post), industrial and mechanical bulletins (the Edenton Fisherman and Farmer, the Railroad Ticket), religious journals (the Raleigh Christian Advocate), African-American publications (the African Expositor), literary journals (The Belles-Lettres, The Leisure Hour), and special interest papers of various kinds (from The Deaf Mute to the Friend of Temperance to the Ku Klux Kaleidoscope).
Details to follow. Those interested in exploring the use of this digital newspaper collection but who will not be able to attend the symposium are encouraged to contact Ashley Reed at the address below.
Event contact:
Ashley Reed
CDHI Postdoctoral Fellow
