New Brunswick Historical Newspapers Project  Preserving and Sharing our Newspaper Heritage Online
Channel: CAUL Manager
Date: 11/04/2024

CAAL-CBPA Webinar
April 11, 2024

Brought to you by the CAAL-CBPA Digital Preservation and Stewardship Committee

Presenters: Jeremy McDermott, Senior Web Developer, UNB Libraries; Jacob Sanford, Senior Technical Operations Manager, UNB Libraries; and Jeff Carter, Manager, Systems Group, UNB Libraries

Moderator: Evan Echols, Digital Collections Archivist, UNB Archives & Special Collections

Description: With rapidly changing formats and widening distribution of news media, tracking the history of provincial news publications has reached a critical juncture. In response, UNB Libraries, in partnership with the Council of New Brunswick Archives, and the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, with the support of many libraries and archives across the province has launched The New Brunswick Historical Newspapers Project. The project's goal is to centralize all known information and holdings of newspapers published in New Brunswick from the earliest publication of the Royal St. John's Gazette and Nova Scotia Intelligencer in 1783 to the present day.

What began as a simple index of newspapers on microfilm at the University of New Brunswick has transformed into a portal to every known newspaper published in or directly related to New Brunswick regardless of available format. The Project tracks all publication metadata and provides links and holdings information to library and archive microfilm and print around the province. More significantly, the Project now contains nearly 200,000 pages of searchable fulltext content from 103 historical titles, and this number continues to grow each week.

This presentation will cover all aspects of the project from discovery and curation, to selection and digitization, to ingest and public access, all undertaken by UNB Libraries' Archives and Special Collections, Microforms, Digital Imaging Centre and Library Systems.

Slides: https://newspapers.lib.unb.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/NB-Historical-Newspapers-Project-CAAL-2024.pdf