Shalom Safranim: I thought this ALA poster session sounded like it would be interesting:
Digital Dreams: The Potential in a Pile of Old Jewish Newspapers Rebecca Jefferson, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (rjeffer...@ufl.edu) In celebration of its thirtieth year, the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica at the University of Florida is digitizing a select corpus of jubilee editions of Jewish newspapers from around the world. Thirty-two representative issues have been chosen out of a collection of over 200 such newspapers held at the University of Florida. The Jewish press of the twentieth century was an extremely vibrant entity and an important tool of social change; the editors were often among the major Jewish writers of their day. Jubilee editions therefore provide a great deal of information about the history of the particular newspaper in question as well as providing a key resource for research into the history of the Jewish press. By mounting the first part of what will be a unique digital resource, the Price Library hopes to raise greater interest in this hidden collection. It also hopes that it will spark future collaborative projects, perhaps even a national endeavor to digitize Jewish world serials. Last but not least, it is hoped that the digital collection will help raise the profile of the Price Library, which is one of the top twenty Jewish libraries in the world in terms of its late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century materials. -- Shmuel Ben-Gad, Gelman Library, George Washington University. --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org