The Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has received a $397,000 two-year grant from the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) for its Illinois Digital Newspaper Project. The award will support the digitization of 100,000 pages of historically significant Illinois newspapers dating from 1860 to 1922. More.
The History, Philosophy and Newspaper Library is pleased to announce the launch of the Farm, Field and Fireside collection. This freely-available locally developed project contains digitized versions of historically significant U.S. farm newspapers published in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Connect to Farm, Field and Fireside.
The University of Illinois Library announces the availability of the Illinois Digital Magazine and Yearbook Collection featuring digital versions of UIUC's yearbook, the Illio for the years of 1970-1989. Other titles include Arts for America (1894-1900), the Illinois Chemist (1915-1921), and the Illinois Society of Architects Monthly Bulletin (1916-1932). Connect to the collection.
Sponsored by the Council on Library and Information Resources, the University Library, the Illinois Informatics Institute, the Department of History, and the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, the "New Directions in Digital Humanities Scholarship" symposium was held on February 26-27, 2009, in 126 GSLIS. This symposium was designed to explore how information technology is reshaping humanities scholarship. View program and access the audio recordings.
UIUC Library recently purchased British Periodicals I & II as well as the Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals (1824-1900) . Enjoy!
Viewing and scanning microforms at the library just got easier with the recent addition of two ScanPro 1000 microform scanners. Both devices feature lightning fast high resolution scanning for all types of microforms including microfilm, microcards, and microfiche. To further enhance the viewing experience, the scanners are also outfitted with 24 inch wide screen monitors. Check out our user guide or contact us for more information.
We are pleased to announce the addition of 50,916 pages of digital newspaper content to the Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection. The latest update adds the years 1903-1915 of the Urbana Daily Courier and the years 1936-1945 of the Daily Illini. More info
Through our consortium membership with the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), UIUC affiliates now have access to Latin American Newspapers—a World Newspaper Archive collection. This preliminary release provides more than 60,000 pages, including 3,000 issues printed between 1914 and 1922, of El Mercurio , an important Spanish-language paper published in Santiago. More info from CRL.
In this series of articles, Kevin D. Franklin and Karen Rodriguez'G examine computational tools and approaches at the interface of humanities, arts and social science.
UIUC Library now has access to several new historical databases including the Historical Washington Post, British Newspapers from 1600-1900, and back issues of the Economist magazine. More details on our featured resources page.
On April 17, we officially launched the Digital Daily Illini (1916-1936). View photos from our event. Connect to the Digital Daily Illini via the Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection.
Check out our new web guide designed for scholars interested in using digital photography for archival research.
Introducing our new IM reference service. Between normal business hours (M-F), IM us at AskHPNL on AIM, Yahoo, or MSN. More details.
Announcing Latin American Newsstand, a database featuring recent content from 41 newspaper titles covering Central and South America and beyond. More details on our featured resources page.
Use our enhanced guide to browse by subject for print and online periodicals from HPNL, Stacks, and other libraries.
HPNL announces the Chuck Olin Digital Film Archive. The archive includes streaming video interviews featuring first-hand accounts from soldiers of the Jewish Brigade.
Published from 1897 through March 1979 under a succession of titles, the Urbana Daily Courier provides rich documentation of the development of commerce and industry, the course of local and regional politics, and the history of cultural and social life in our community, as well as the local experience of global events.
Mass Observation Online provides integrated access to approx. 115,000 digital images of material from the Mass Observation Project, an extensive social survey conducted in Britain during 1937 to early 1950s. More info.
MEMSO provides a large and growing resource of essential medieval and early modern sources relating to British and Irish history on-line. More info.
19th Century U.S. Newspapers, a full-text searchable, facsimile-image database, provides access to approximately 1.7 million pages of primary source newspaper content from the 19th century. More info.
UIUC Library has selected Olive Software to preserve local history by digitizing approximately 50,000 pages of the student newspaper, the Daily Illini, two decades of yearbook, the Illio, and a local newspaper, the Urbana Daily Courier. Read the Press Release.
Digital images of the Los Angeles Times (1881-1985) are now available to UIUC affiliates via ProQuest's Historical Newspapers. Browse by issue or search across the full-text in this rich resouce. Connect to the Historical Los Angeles Times.
Digitized versions of past preliminary exams are now available for download from our web site.
We now have an online guide to the History, Philosophy and Newspaper Library's print periodicals collection. Also linked from the Books & Journals section of our web site, this handy guide comprises a subject and a title listing of our extensive periodical collection.
The UIUC Newspaper Database, a searchable online inventory of newspapers available at UIUC, is now featuring increased access to our rich online newspaper holdings. More than 300 domestic and international titles from Press Display (recent news source) are now included, and more updates are on the way.
The Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature online backfile uniquely provides access to popular magazine literature from 1890-1982. Connect to the Readers' Guide.
Courtesy of the Reference Library, this site is designed to assist UIUC affiliates access library content from off-campus and across the globe. Also learn how to configure Google Scholar for off-campus use.
Digital images of the Chicago Defender's backfiles (1905-1975) are now available to UIUC affiliates via ProQuest's Historical Newspapers. Browse by issue or search across the full-text in this rich resouce. Connect to the Historical Chicago Defender.
With our newest subscription to Press Display, you can now read over 250 of today's papers from around the world in their original full-page and design. Also read El Pais and Le Monde online with Newsbank's E-Editions. View Press Display Source List.
Access World News is a comprehensive collection of full-text newspapers providing coverage of domestic and international news sources of recent years. Browse or search over 100 newspaper titles from Illinois or search across nearly 2000 titles spanning the globe. Connect to Access World News.
With gratitude for the generosity of the family of Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker Chuck Olin, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library is happy to announce the significant gift of the Olin Film Archive.
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