Saturday, August 6, 2011 Chronicling America: The Pennsylvania Newspaper Digital Project

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm, Christ Church Great Hall, 20 N. American Street, Phila.  

 
Funded by a grant from the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities, Penn State University Libraries began a project to digitize historical Pennsylvania newspapers on microfilm. Project Manager Karen Morrow and staff will discuss the project, including:

• the history of the National Digital Newspaper Program and Chronicling America
• origin of the Pennsylvania project
• title selection, digitization and uploading of the images
• how to use the Chronicling America website for your genealogical research other online newspaper resources available to researchers
• question and answer period

Free to GSP members, $5 for non-members. Register by going to http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1810325733