Scanning Newspapers

Geoff Cannon (mailto:cannong@HHPL.ON.CA)
Wed, 7 Jul 1999 11:31:25 -0400

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Date:         Wed, 7 Jul 1999 11:31:25 -0400
From: Geoff Cannon <mailto:cannong@HHPL.ON.CA>
Subject:      Scanning Newspapers
To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU

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For many years now the Halton Hills Library has been indexing several of the local newspapers. In an effort to make the content of the articles available to users over the WWW we have started to link the indexing to a scanned image of the page.

We are looking for other's who are involved or know about similar projects to share information and ideas.

For those interested in what we are doing you can see an example at: http://www.hhpl.on.ca/localhistory/forms.htm Check "Newspaper Articles" and search "pumpkin" The second article listed has a link to page 3 of the New Tanner. "MacMillan's rewards effort of young pumpkin planter" The response time may be slow because the index is currently in Microsoft Access. The new version which should come online in a month or two runs in Microsoft SQL. It is much faster and we have added some addition features.

TIA

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Geoffrey Cannon
Information Services Librarian
Halton Hills Public Library
Georgetown, ON

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<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> For many years now the Halton Hills Library has been indexing several of the local newspapers.  In an effort to make the content of the articles available to users over the WWW we have started to link the indexing to a scanned image of the page.

We are looking for other's who are involved or know about similar projects to share information and ideas.

For those interested in what we are doing you can see an example at:
http://www.hhpl.on.ca/localhistory/forms.htm
Check "Newspaper Articles" and search "pumpkin"
The second article listed has a link to page 3 of the New Tanner. "MacMillan's rewards effort of young pumpkin planter"
The response time may be slow because the index is currently in Microsoft Access.  The new version which should come online in a month or two runs in Microsoft SQL.  It is much faster and we have added some addition features.

TIA
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Geoffrey Cannon
Information Services Librarian
Halton Hills Public Library
Georgetown, ON
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