Making Florida Newspaper Collections Available to All
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Transcript of Making Florida Newspaper Collections Available to All
Making Florida Newspaper
Collections Available to All
1Pre Survey link: https://ufl.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0lxB2zFuiqqmt5I
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Fletcher Durant
Conservation and Preservation
University of Florida (UF)
George A. Smathers Libraries
April Hines
Journalism and Mass
Communications Librarian
University of Florida (UF)
George A. Smathers Libraries
Chelsea Dinsmore
Digital Support Services
University of Florida (UF)
George A. Smathers Libraries
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This project was funded under the
provisions of the Library Services and
Technology Act from the Institute of
Museum and Library Services. Florida’s
LSTA program is administered by the
Department of State’s Division of Library
and Information Services
Overview
▷ Pre-Survey
▷ Moving forward with Microfilm
▷ Florida Digital Newspaper Library Project
▷ How to Use the FDNL
▷ Questions and Comments
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1.Microfilm
Moving forward to save the past
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Microfilm at the
University of Florida
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17,453 master reels of
newspapers
65 counties
8116 reels of Florida
newspapers
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Digital
2005 – PresentFDNL and CNDL founded in
2005
1905 – Present
Microfilm
1930s – 2008UF microfilmed newspapers
from across Florida, Latin
America, and Africa.
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Digital
2005 – Present
FDNL and CNDL
founded in 2005
1905 – Present
Microfilm
1930s – 2008UF microfilmed newspapers
from across Florida, Latin
America, and Africa.
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Print-to-Digital
Digital
2005 – Present
FDNL and CNDL
founded in 2005
1905 – Present
Microfilm
1930s – 2008UF microfilmed newspapers
from across Florida, Latin
America, and Africa.
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Print-to-Digital
Digital
Digitization is
Access +
Preservation
“Vinegar Syndrome” or
cellulose acetate
deterioration puts older
microfilm collections at risk
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Daniel D. Teoli
Jr.
CC BY-SA 4.0
From the Library
Stacks to the Web
Digitization of out-of-
copyright newspapers
allows for patrons to access
historic newspapers from
anywhere.
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Digitization Outputs
▷ .TIFF, .JPEG, .JP2000,
.PDF, .TXT
▷ OCR text files and PDFs
▷ Fully searchable and
viewable
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Front-to-Back
Preservation and
Access
Scanned files enter the UF
Digital Collections and the
UF storage infrastructure to
ensure long-term
preservation.
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2.
Florida Digital Newspaper Library
Project
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https://ufdc.ufl.edu/
ufdc.ufl.edu/fdnl1
▷ The Florida Digital Newspaper Library exists to
provide access to the history of Florida news. All
of the over 2.9 million pages of historic through
current Florida newspapers in the Florida Digital
Newspaper Library are openly and freely
available to read and search. The Florida Digital
Newspaper Library builds on the work done in
microfilm within the Florida Newspaper Project
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922 Florida newspapers
All 67 counties
2,901,731 pages
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Why?
Why?
▷ A shrinking number of working microfilm
readers around the state
▷ The journalistic history of Florida, as far
back as the 1880s, is unevenly presented
in current the FDNL.
▷ It’s not always possible to go to the library.
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Why?
▷ Why should we reformat this content?
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Why?
▷ Full text searching
▷ Searching across titles
▷ Access to the text files for data mining
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Why?
▷ But, who reads old newspapers?
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Why?
▷ But, who reads old newspapers?
○ Total # of views - 307,880,268
○ Students
○ Genealogists
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Making Florida News Accessible
▷ Convert 200,000 images from microfilm
○ 33 titles,
○ representing 15 Florida counties
▷ Partner with the MLC’s to provide these
trainings
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Selection Criteria for 2020-21
▷ Focus on counties with limited FDNL coverage
▷ Focus on longer runs to the extent possible.
▷ 15 counties and 33 titles
▷ Bay, Brevard, Citrus, De Soto, Duval,
Escambia, Hernando, Leon, Manatee, Orange,
Palm Beach, Polk, St. Johns, St. Lucie, and
Volusia
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New and Expanded Titles Include
▷ Manatee River Journal
▷ Arcadia Daily News
▷ Florida Dispatch
▷ Lakeland Morning Star
▷ Panama City Pilot
▷ Hernando News
▷ Crystal River News
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How to use FDNL
April Hines
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Next Steps for FDNL
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Questions or Comments?
Chelsea Dinsmore [email protected]
Fletcher Durant [email protected]
April Hines [email protected]
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