On May 23, 2003, William Jewell College’s Curry Library was approved for a Digital Imaging grant of $12,000 from the Missouri State Library. The purpose of the grant was to digitize 32 years of the Liberty Tribune newspaper and make it available on the Historic Missouri Newspapers web site. A previous Library Services and Technology Act funded grant provided funding to digitize eight years of the Tribune. The completed project covers April 1846 to April 1886. William Jewell College currently owns the only paper copies of these early years of the Liberty newspaper. The Tribune has not been indexed; therefore as a service to the wider community of researchers, we enlisted the assistance of the University of Missouri’s Library Systems Office to help make these resources available to a wider audience via the web. Through the use of Olive Software Active Newspaper Archive software, all issues may be browsed as well as searched by full-text. This run of years was selected because it includes the very first issue in 1846 and runs through the Civil War years. Our goal was to increase public access to the abundance of information contained in the Liberty Tribune, both text and advertisement. We hope you will visit the site often. The direct link to the Historic Missouri Newspapers site is: http://newspapers.umsystem.edu/archive/Skins/Missouri/navigator.asp?skin=Misso uri&BP=OK A special thanks to Kurt Kopp, Assistant Director-Electronic Resources (University of Missouri) and the Missouri State Library for assisting us and promoting digitization projects. John Young Director of the Library William Jewell College 500 College Hill - Box 1097 Liberty, MO 64068-1896 816/415-7606 direct line youngj@william.jewell.edu
Oooh. Thanks! ----- Original Message ----- From: <Lisarps@aol.com> To: <MORAY-CGA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 12:15 PM Subject: [MORAY-CGA] Fw: Information Release from Curry Library > On May 23, 2003, William Jewell College’s Curry Library was approved for a > Digital Imaging grant of $12,000 from the Missouri State Library. The > purpose > of the grant was to digitize 32 years of the Liberty Tribune newspaper and > make > it available on the Historic Missouri Newspapers web site. A previous > Library Services and Technology Act funded grant provided funding to > digitize eight > years of the Tribune. The completed project covers April 1846 to April > 1886. > > William Jewell College currently owns the only paper copies of these early > years of the Liberty newspaper. The Tribune has not been indexed; > therefore as > a service to the wider community of researchers, we enlisted the > assistance of > the University of Missouri’s Library Systems Office to help make these > resources available to a wider audience via the web. Through the use of > Olive > Software Active Newspaper Archive software, all issues may be browsed as > well as > searched by full-text. This run of years was selected because it includes > the > very first issue in 1846 and runs through the Civil War years. > > Our goal was to increase public access to the abundance of information > contained in the Liberty Tribune, both text and advertisement. We hope > you will > visit the site often. The direct link to the Historic Missouri Newspapers > site > is: > > http://newspapers.umsystem.edu/archive/Skins/Missouri/navigator.asp?skin=Misso > uri&BP=OK > > A special thanks to Kurt Kopp, Assistant Director-Electronic Resources > (University of Missouri) and the Missouri State Library for assisting us > and > promoting digitization projects. > > > > John Young > Director of the Library > William Jewell College > 500 College Hill - Box 1097 > Liberty, MO 64068-1896 > 816/415-7606 direct line > youngj@william.jewell.edu > > > ==== MORAY-CGA Mailing List ==== > Ray County Missouri was created in 1821 from Howard County. >