Project Updates, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment on Reflections on 10 Years of Digitization

Reflections on 10 Years of Digitization

The US Caribbean & Florida Digital Newspaper Project celebrates 10 years of continuous digitization! Principal Investigator Patrick Reakes and Co-Principal Investigator Melissa Jerome reflect on 10 years of the project.  Patrick Reakes: Principal Investigator 2013-2025 Senior Associate Dean, Scholarly Resources and Services George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida  As we’re reaching the end of our 5thContinue reading Reflections on 10 Years of Digitization

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Recetas de las Américas Webinar

Texto en español a continuación. Recetas de las Américas Webinar Friday, August 18, 2 p.m EDT  Register here Abstract here  Sarah Tew and Melissa Jerome (current and former US Caribbean and Florida Digital Newspaper Project Coordinators) will present a webinar Recetas de las Américas : A bilingual digital publishing cookbook as part of the Florida DigitalContinue reading Recetas de las Américas Webinar

Florida, Project Updates | 1 Comment on Fase 5 Periódicos de Florida

Fase 5 Periódicos de Florida

This blog is also available in English ¡Nos acercamos al final de la Fase 5 del Proyecto de Periódico Digital del Caribe de EE. UU. y Florida!   Durante esta fase (2021-2023), se digitalizaron los siguientes títulos de periódicos de Florida. Todos los números digitalizados de Diario las Américas ya están en Chronicling America. La mayoríaContinue reading Fase 5 Periódicos de Florida

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Phase 5 Florida Titles

Este blog también está disponible en español. We are nearing the end of Phase 5 of the US Caribbean & Florida Digital Newspaper Project!  During this phase (2021-2023), the following newspaper titles from Florida were digitized. All digitized issues of Diario las Américas are already live in Chronicling America. Most issues of La Gaceta digitizedContinue reading Phase 5 Florida Titles

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Behind the Scenes: Digitization

Getting a newspaper digitized and online is no simple task. It takes the US Caribbean & Florida Digital Newspaper Project (USCFDNP) 2 years and dozens of people from around the world to digitize approximately 100,000 pages of historic newspapers. Microfilm The digitization process starts with microfilm. Most historic newspapers we have today in libraries surviveContinue reading Behind the Scenes: Digitization

Virgin Islands | Leave a Comment on Introducing the St. Croix Avis

Introducing the St. Croix Avis

This article was adapted by Lindsay Negrello, Librarian at the University of the Virgin Islands, from the St. Croix Avis’s title essay first published in Chronicling America.  The St. Croix Avis (sn84037526) began publication in 1844 under the direction of editor and publisher Richard Hatchett in Christiansted, St. Croix (VI). It is a successor ofContinue reading Introducing the St. Croix Avis

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Bull and Bread Day/Liberty Day 

A small island can serve as a remarkable microcosm for driving social change and can also provide an optimal environment for cultivating bold community leaders. David Hamilton Jackson was an exemplar of such a leader. Born in 1884 and raised on the island of St. Croix, Jackson received his initial training as an educator. JacksonContinue reading Bull and Bread Day/Liberty Day 

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Progress for the People: Newspaper History in the Virgin Islands

This grant cycle the US Caribbean & Florida Digital Newspaper Project has digitized new content from five US Virgin Islands newspapers: The St. Croix Tribune, The St. Croix Avis, The West End News, The Daily News of the Virgin Islands, and The Home Journal. These papers follow in the tradition of earlier papers from theContinue reading Progress for the People: Newspaper History in the Virgin Islands