Upcoming Conferences Expos: National Council on Public History (Ottawa, Ont. Apr 18-20) Atlantic Provinces Library Association (Charlottetown, May 14-17) Ontario Genealogical Society (Oshawa, Ont. May 30-June 2) Ontario Heritage Conference (Midland, Ont. June 7-9) American Library Association (Chicago, Ill. June 29-July 2) Sessions: Atlantic Provinces Library Association (Charlottetown, May 14-17) Canadian Library Association (Winnipeg, Man. …
OurDigitalWorld is very pleased to announce our new All-in-One Newspaper Digitization Service! Want to move your newspaper collection online? Whether you have paper or microfilm copies, index records, or clippings, we’ll do all the legwork and handle everything from digitization to display. More information coming to this website soon. Meanwhile, you can check out this …
Building on great things, Whitby Public library has launched its new Whitby Digital Newspaper Collection. The project was made possible by a generous anonymous donation. Containing 40 titles and 140 years of local news, the newspapers can be browsed and index records searched. Coming soon will be full text searching for the newspaper pages themselves! …
Join us at the Ontario Museum Association annual conference, October 17-19 in Niagara Falls!
John F. Reid is a genealogist and advocate concerned with making more digitized newspaper content available. Mr. Reid followed up with us after seeing our bid for votes for the Heritage Trust Project grant proposal to enhanceour heritage newspaper portals. See his full blog post here: http://anglo-celtic-connections.blogspot.ca/2012/04/our-digital-world.html
Vote for more, better heritage news online! OurDigitalWorld is a finalist for the EMC Heritage Trust Project grant–and your vote counts! ODW will use the grant to develop and enhance our existing beta news portals (http://ink.ourontario.ca and http://news2.ourontario.ca) so that we can streamline and increase access to one of the largest free collections of digitized …
Join us and learn more at these three great conferences in June: