Digitization of Newspapers
SELCO will prioritize which counties will be eligible to have their newspapers digitized. SELCO with contract with Minnesota Historical Society to do the digitization.
Libraries, historical societies, and other local organizations will be able to work with patrons to develop potential new uses of the digitized newspapers.
Create a treasury of long-sought or unexpected information from digitizing newspapers from Southeastern Minnesota. In addition, anecdotes and stories will be collected from users of the digitized collection.
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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.
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 MHS has uploaded all of the digitized SELCO newspapers to the Hub.
The Minnesota Historical Society digitized approximately 26,000 pages of public domain newspapers printed between 1863-1922 in Houston county using NDNP technical standards.
From January to July 2018, there were over 140,000 pages views of digitized
newspapers in the SELCO region.
Minnesota Historical Society, SELCO