Digitization
Expand the diversity of southeastern Minnesota digital resources through collaborations with local libraries, community organizations, Minitex, the Minnesota Digital Library and the Minnesota Historical Society. Create a treasury of long-sought or unexpected information from digitizing newspapers from Southeastern Minnesota. To gauge the value of the digitized collection, SELCO will survey the members of the community with newspapers included in the digitized collection. In addition, anecdotes and stories will be collected from users of the digitized collection.
Following a final system upgrade and performance assessment, the Minnesota Digital Newspaper Hub went live in late September 2014. As a central repository and resource for digitized Minnesota newspapers, the Hub will make historic newspapers freely accessible over the Internet and provide greatly improved access through keyword searching of the page content. The SELCO newspapers are a key component and MNHS has uploaded all of the digitized SELCO newspapers to the Hub. The Minnesota Historical Society digitized approximately 21,750 pages of public domain newspapers printed between 1863-1922 in Mower and Winona counties using NDNP technical standards. SELCO supplemented an independent project undertaken by the Van Horn Public Library-Pine Island and the Zumbrota Public Library working with the Minnesota Historical Society using private grant funds and donations to digitize approximately 14,507 pages printed in those two communities between 1882 and 1922.
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