NewsBank, Inc. has announced that it will be the exclusive provider to the education and library markets of the Chicago Tribune s digitized news archive dating back to 1849. This new archival collection will complement the existing full-text Chicago Tribune articles from 1985 to the present that NewsBank currently provides online. The news archive will include the full text and image of every front page from 1849 through the present, the full text of all obituaries and death notices from 1849 to 1997, and the images and fully searchable text from some 15 million news clippings from the early 1920s through 1984. Colorado Digitization Project Shares Images, Tools The Colorado Department of Education has announced a collaborative initiative of Colorado libraries, archives, museums, and historical societies to create an online collection of digital images that will provide Internet users with unparalleled access to Colorado s history and culture. The Web site includes a guide for using primary source material in grades K-12 and a digital toolbox to help institutions get started with a digitization project.
Users can search the site by media format or geographic location, or browse the entire collection.
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