Please spread the word about our newspaper digitization project, especially to the teachers and librarians needing and wanting to use local primary source materials with their students. For more information about our newspaper digitization projects, visit the libguide we created at: http://libguides.ctstatelibrary.org/newspapers . I have links to sample topics and lesson plans on the main page of the libguide.
We are also looking for teachers, teachers-in-training, and/or graduate students who are interested in using these historic newspapers to create lesson plans and/or curricula that meet the Common Core standards. If any of you are interested or know of people who are, please contact our project coordinator, Christine Gauvreau, at Christine.Gauvreau@ct.gov or 860-757-6525.
Thank you.
Gail
Gail Hurley
Statewide Library Catalog Coordinator, iCONN
Division of Library Development, Connecticut State Library
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Subject: [Conntech] Connecticut State Library Press Release/Connecticut Digital Newspaper Project
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 9, 2014
Contact: Gail Hurley
(860) 704-2222
Contact : Jane Cullinane
(860)757-6524
Connecticut Digital Newspaper Project Digitizes Norwich Bulletin 1914-1916
The Connecticut State Library is pleased to announce that it has digitized the Norwich Bulletin from January 1, 1914 - December 31, 1916 as part of a grant received from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2013 to digitize historically significant Connecticut newspapers. The digital images of the Norwich Bulletin are now included in the Library of Congress' newspaper site: Chronicling America http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/. Browse the Norwich Bulletin at http://1.usa.gov/1vwIJO6. This grant allows Connecticut to add 100,000 pages, digitized from microfilm of newspapers published in the state between 1836 and 1922. The Connecticut Digital Newspaper Project Advisory Board selected the Norwich Bulletin, Bridgeport Evening Farmer and its successor publication, the Bridgeport Times and Evening Farmer for the time period of 1910-1922.
These papers will provide news about such topics as the effects of WWI in Connecticut, information about social life, births, marriages, divorces, illnesses, the return of veterans, accidents, and deaths, information about labor, industrialization and immigration. The remaining content from the time period chosen for the Norwich Bulletin and Bridgeport Evening Farmer will be added to Chronicling America on an ongoing basis through 2014 and 2015.
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