Opening Up Worldwide Access to Key BC Historical Documents:

BC Historical NewspapersMike Conroy, Community Digital Projects Analyst

UBC Library

Vision

…The Library’s digital initiatives embrace new technology, methods of access, workflows and preservation strategies while building sustainable digital collections to support and enrich the educational, cultural and economic endeavors of the University, the People of British Columbia and communities beyond.

…Our goal is to create sustainable, world-class programs and processes to make the collections and research at UBC available to the world.

Background: BC Historical Newspapers Pilot Project

Background: BC Historical Newspapers Pilot Project

Why Newspapers?

Technology

• CONTENTdm• Custom built website• Custom built image viewer

FeaturesFull text search with term highlightingBrowse/Search by date or titleToday in history

Intuitive zoom and dragFull screen modeMetadata displayDownloadable & Printable

Fun and easy to use (hopefully)