01-13-2010, 09:31 PM | #1 | |
Sir Penguin of Edinburgh
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JISC digitised 100k pages from 19th century newspapers
from the announcement:
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http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/...ry-newspapers/ This is a continuation of a national digitisation project that was begun in 2006. The recent scans were added to a collection that already consisted of over 2 million pages. ********** Even though access is limited to British institutions (universities, colleges, schools, corporations) and I can't use it, I think this is rather neat. |
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01-14-2010, 12:28 AM | #2 |
You kids get off my lawn!
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Disappointing - it did sound neat! One of things I did as a bored freshman in college was spend a long afternoon reading the turn-of-the-(20th)-century school newspapers. I was going to go take a look...
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