Message-Id: <199907071631.JAA41440@dns.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 12:29:38 -0400 From: mgilmore <mailto:mgilmore@CLARK.NET> Subject: Re: Scanning Newspapers To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Sounds like this discussion should be shared by the two lists.....On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Geoff Cannon wrote:
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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
> --
> Geoffrey Cannon
> Information Services Librarian
> Halton Hills Public Library
> Georgetown, ON
>
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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.
> <p><font size=+1>We are looking for other's who are involved or know about
> similar projects to share information and ideas.</font>
> <p>For those interested in what we are doing you can see an example at:
> <br><A HREF="http://www.hhpl.on.ca/localhistory/forms.htm">http://www.hhpl.on.ca/localhistory/forms.htm</A>
> <br>Check "Newspaper Articles" and search "pumpkin"
> <br>The second article listed has a link to page 3 of the New Tanner. "MacMillan's
> rewards effort of young pumpkin planter"
> <br>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.
> <p>TIA
> <br>--
> <br>Geoffrey Cannon
> <br>Information Services Librarian
> <br>Halton Hills Public Library
> <br>Georgetown, ON
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Matthew Gilmore __________________________________________________________ mailto:mgilmore@clark.net D.C. Public Library / 901 G St., NW / Washington DC 20001 http://dclibrary.org Washingtoniana Division and the Washington Star Collection District of Columbia Newspaper Project (202) 727-1213
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