Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 10:32:34 -0500 From: russhanson <russhanson@grantsburgtelcom.net> Subject: Re: Newspaper Clippings Message-ID: <eb037e2a48c4f9ee7710d53c543ec167@grantsburgtelcom.net>
On 2021-04-10 07:44, dewalter wrote:
> On 2021-04-08 17:55, Douglas County Historical Society wrote:
>> Looking for what other historical organizations do with newspaper
>> clippings. Generally in the past we did not save clippings, but
>> often photocopied them.
>>
>> Last year we received the archives of the Superior Telegram.
>> Previously we received the bound books of newspapers collection.
>> Last year we received the microfilm collection and the file archive
>> collection. The file archives have photos, clippings and other items
>> such as programs and booklets by subject in large manila envelopes.
>> I have concerns for keeping the clippings long term.
>>
>> Jon Winter
>> Douglas County Historical Society
>> 1101 John Avenue Superior WI 54880
>>
>> Business Manager
>> 715-392-8449
>
> Donate them to Ancestry Newspapers, or some other genealoghical
> organization that would mcke them available online for researchers
> Dave Walter
> MHS
One of the most useful way to organize clippings is to photograph or
scan them and put the files on your google cloud drive where they get
automatically OCR done (optical character recognition) and become
completely searchable by text. We use a foot pedal camera scanning unit
that makes this rapid. As to the original material, I suggest checking
with your local Wisconsin Historical Society archives at the university
in your area and see if they will take them. Scrapbooks of clippings
are pretty useless without a great deal of indexing if you don't scan
and ocr them for searchability. I really like the google drive route
for that with its main flaw only the owner of the cloud drive can do the
searching -- you can't share the search function for the whole drive
without giving acct and password access. We get around this by having a
drop-in computer at the museum connected via internet to the drive with
access.
Russ Hanson
Sterling Eureka and Laketown Historical Society.