[Wactclc-alma] [EXTERNAL*]-Re: [EXTERNAL] - Re: Newspaper digitization recommendations?

[Elena Bianco]

Hi Clare:

I'm interested in hearing what you learn, as well. I've been doing my sabbatical project this year on archival practices in community colleges and the common denominator, which is not news to any of us, is that we all are stretched too thin to be able to devote a lot of money or time to this. In years past, we tried digitizing some of our student newspapers, but it ended up being way to labor-intensive with results of mixed quality...

One of my recommendations for our college is going to be to partner with the State Archives. I discovered that many of the physical things we've been keeping in our archives that don't get a lot of usage could be stored with the regional archives up in Bellingham, as long as they fall under the "archival" designation in the state's records retention guidelines. That would ensure that they are adequately preserved and cataloged.

The digital newspaper initiative would be one more way to partner with them. It would be great if they would be able/willing to add student newspapers to their collections.

Good luck!

Elena


Elena Bianco

Systems & Technical Services Librarian

Skagit Valley College Library

2405 E. College Way

Mount Vernon, WA 98273




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Please keep us posted!  We have “digitizing student newspapers” on a far away task list but would love to continue to hear what others are doing…



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Thanks, Kirsti! I gave them a call, and they put me in touch with the Washington Digital Newspapers Coordinator<https://washingtondigitalnewspapers.org/?a=p&p=about&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-college------> at Washington State Library to find out more. It sounds like a couple of other colleges have recently been in contact about digitizing their student newspapers, too.



-Clare



On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 12:29 PM Thomas, Kirsti <Kirsti.Thomas at seattlecolleges.edu<mailto:Kirsti.Thomas at seattlecolleges.edu>> wrote:

Clare,



I immediately thought of the Archives Dept. at Washington State Library as a possible source of info and advice.



Digging through the website, I found out there's an Imaging & Preservation Service<https://www.sos.wa.gov/archives/imaging_digitize.aspx> that can perform scanning of paper materials. Page says:



"For pricing information please contact Imaging and Preservation Services at (360) 586-0108"



They may also have recommendations for OCR (optical character recognition) and recommendations to find grant funding for OCR. You'll need to translate the scanned image to text so everything is accessible for screenreaders. Getting accessible text that's not full of errors out of the scanning project may be the most complicated part.





It will be ok!



Kirsti S. Thomas (Hear my first name<http://namedrop.io/kirstithomas>)

Library Technical Services Manager & Systems Librarian

Seattle Colleges

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Hi all,



Edmonds College has a print collection of student newspapers, and I'm researching options for digitizing and creating an institutional repository for them. If any of you have undertaken a project like this, did you work with an outside vendor for the digitization/scanning piece? And if so, do you have any recommendations for companies that can provide this type of service? I can look around on my own, but I figured I'd ask the group first to avoid reinventing the wheel here! Beyond that, what type of software did you use to create your collection? ContentDm? Omeka? Something else?



Any general words of wisdom (or caution) would be much appreciated.



Clare



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Clare Bryant

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Edmonds College Library

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