Northern New York Historical Newspapers are provided by the Northern New York Library Network to enhance access to the region's unique local history. The online collection currently consists of more than 1,348,000 pages from forty newspapers.
The California Digital Library (CDL) is pleased to announce the availability of an extensive self-guided tutorial for its eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) application (http://xtf.wiki.sourceforge.net/). XTF is an open source, highly customizable piece of software supporting the search, browse, and display of heterogeneous digital content and offering efficient and practical methods for creating customized end-user interfaces for distinct digital collections. The tutorial provides guidance for implementing and customizing XTF, from core functionality to overall look and feel. Downloads for the Mac and Windows operating systems (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=119724) are available from the XTF Project page on SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xtf/), along with the complete distribution and documentation.
The Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands (KB) initiated the Databank of Digital Daily newspapers project at the end of 2006. The project will realize the large-scale digitization of Dutch national, regional, local and colonial newspapers and make these freely accessible on the Internet. The Databank of Digital Daily newspapers will contain eight million pages, from the first newspaper dated 1618 to the newspapers of the twentieth century.
Brown University Library's digital collections contain a mix of public domain, copyrighted (fair-use), and licensed materials. Materials that are under copyright or license agreement are available only to members of the Brown Community. Public domain materials are available to everybody.
The National Library of Australia, in collaboration the Australian State and Territory libraries, has commenced a
program to digitise out of copyright newspapers.
TCDL features a bi-annual bulletin of themed issues featuring articles of interests of members of the IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries (TCDL).
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