Mass Observation Online provides integrated access to approx. 115,000 digital images of material from the Mass Observation Project, an extensive social survey conducted in Britain during 1937 to early 1950s. More info (no longer available)
Introducing the Digital Urbana Daily Courier 1916-1925
Published from 1897 through March 1979 under a succession of titles, the Urbana Daily Courier provides rich documentation of the development of commerce and industry, the course of local and regional politics, and the history of cultural and social life in our community, as well as the local experience of global events.
Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online (MEMSO)
MEMSO provides a large and growing resource of essential medieval and early modern sources relating to British and Irish history on-line.
More info about MEMSO.
New Subscription: 19th Century U.S. Newspapers
19th Century U.S. Newspapers, a full-text searchable, facsimile-image database, provides access to approximately 1.7 million pages of primary source newspaper content from the 19th century.
More info about 19th Century U.S. Newspapers.
Guide to our Print Periodicals Collection
We now have an online guide to the History, Philosophy and Newspaper Library’s print periodicals collection. Also linked from the Books & Journals section of our web site, this handy guide comprises a subject and a title listing of our extensive periodical collection.
UIUC Chooses Olive Software to Preserve Institution’s Legacy
UIUC Library has selected Olive Software to preserve local history by digitizing approximately 50,000 pages of the student newspaper, the Daily Illini, two decades of yearbook, the Illio, and a local newspaper, the Urbana Daily Courier.
Official Press Release from Olive Software:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Chooses Olive Software to Preserve Institution’s Legacy
SANTA CLARA, California, March 2, 2007 – The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign selected Olive Software to preserve the college’s history by digitizing approximately 50,000 pages of the student newspaper, the Daily Illini, two decades of yearbook, the Illio, and a local newspaper, the Urbana Daily Courier.
The Daily Illini provides a rich chronicle of student life and culture on the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University of Illinois. Courses offered by the Departments of History, Speech Communications, Journalism, and Anthropology draw heavily on the paper as source material on all aspects of the social, institutional, and cultural history of the University. However, prior to Olive, the utility of the material was limited as it was only available on microfilm and lacked indexing. Once digitized, Olive’s ActivePaper Archive will enable keyword online access to the contents of the student newspaper and will dramatically increase its value to researchers at all levels, as well as to the University’s alumni.
Features such as a customizable interface to ensure brand extension, robust search capabilities for improved user experience, and the ability to have multiple publications such as newspapers and student yearbooks reside on the same repository remain the most sought after among Olive customers. The institution went through a thorough and rigorous vendor evaluation before selecting Olive to undertake this vital project.
Mary Stuart, History, Philosophy and Newspaper Librarian Professor of Library Administration for UIUC, explained the provider selection process: “We examined several products in planning our newspaper digitization projects, and we concluded that Olive offered the best functionality and usability features. An important advantage of Olive Software for us is that it comes closest to being a ‘plug and play’ system, even when hosted locally. Some of the alternative products require a dedicated programmer to maintain. Last but not least, several institutions we contacted that have worked with Olive on newspaper digitization projects reported a high level of satisfaction with the company.”
“Olive is proud to offer a solution that fits UIUC’s needs,” commented Yuval Rachmilevitz, Olive’s President and CEO. “More and more users rely on electronic formats for research and scholarly works. It is essential that institutions are able to manage their digital collections internally and preserve their legacy in permanent archives for the next generation of readers.”
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign joins numerous institutions that use Olive’s digitization services and its ActivePaper Archive to ensure the future-proof preservation of their content. Olive provides archiving solutions to some of the most prominent US and international institutions including Penn State University, The Scotsman, Ithaca College, Brooklyn Public Library, Oberlin College, and many others.
About University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library
The University Library holds over ten million volumes, more than 90,000 serial titles, and more than nine million manuscripts, maps, slides, audio tapes, microforms, videotapes, laser discs, and other non-print material. Among the Library’s most notable collections are its holdings in Slavic and Eastern European history, literature, and science; music, especially Renaissance music; 17th- and 18th-century American and British literature; American, British and Irish history, including a distinguished collection of Lincolniana; French, German, and Italian literature, including world-famous Proust, Rilke, Dante, and Tasso collections; Latin American history and literature; historic and modern maps; entomology, ornithology, botany, chemistry and mathematics; and serials across all disciplines.
About Olive Software
Olive Software (www.olivesoftware.com) enables its customers to transform their content resources into intelligent knowledge assets, enabling information discovery, effective search and future-proof preservation. Hundreds of companies and millions of end-users rely on Olive to unlock the information in their content and publish it through a browser, customized web application or portal, or knowledge management application. Olive’s end-to-end electronic publishing platform understands the structure and semantics of electronic, paper, microfilm, and microfiche documents and automatically converts them to XML with highly searchable metadata.
Olive Software is based in Santa Clara, California, with sales offices in New York, Washington DC, Denver, and Los Angeles, and R&D facilities in Israel.
Media Contacts:
Olive Software, Inc.
Sasha Frey
Marketing Manager
Email: sashaf@olivesoftware.com
www.olivesoftware.com
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library
Mary Stuart
History, Philosophy and Newspaper Librarian
Professor of Library Administration
Email: m-stuart@uiuc.edu
www.uiuc.edu
Historical Los Angeles Times Now Available!
Digital images of the Los Angeles Times (1881-1985) are now available to UIUC affiliates via ProQuest’s Historical Newspapers. Browse by issue or search across the full-text in this rich resouce.
New Resource: Access World News
Access World News is a comprehensive collection of full-text newspapers providing coverage of domestic and international news sources of recent years. Browse or search over 100 newspaper titles from Illinois or search across nearly 2000 titles spanning the globe.
Backfiles of History Dept. Preliminary Exam Questions Now Available Online!
Digitized versions of past preliminary exams are now available for download from our web site.
Read Newspapers Online in their Original Print Layout!
With our newest subscription to Press Display, you can now read over 250 of today’s papers from around the world in their original full-page and design. Also read El Pais and Le Monde online with Newsbank’s E-Editions.
[Update: Newsbank E-Editions no longer available.]