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Monday @ 1pm The RSC SE online seminar series

Harold Fricker MA

eLearning Advisor HE

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Monday @ 1pm The RSC SE online seminar series

Ed KingHead of the Newspaper

Collection at the British Library.

JISC Webinar 3 March 2008

Newspapers Digitisation project: 19th Century British Library newspapers

Ed King, Head of Newspaper Collections, British Library

Context for digital projects : UK Newspapers & British Library Collections

The newspaper collections in the British Library at Colindale, London, consist of:

over 664,000 bound volumes and parcels, occupying some 32 kilometres (or 20 miles) of shelves;

over 370,000 reels of microfilm, on 13 kilometres (or 8 miles) of shelf space;

Aims of the C19 Century British Library Newspapers Project

Digitise up to 2 million pages of out of copyright newspapers

free access online to UK higher education community

sophisticated browsing and searching of the file via the web

British Newspapers 1800-1900 Project: selection of titles

Three guiding principles

Whole century 1800-1900

All parts of the UK to be covered

Whole runs of titles digitised

Format changes to Newspapers: posing problems for scanning and OCR

Files available in BL reading rooms and in many UK HE and FE institutions

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Monday @ 1pm The RSC SE online seminar series

10 March

Sally Rumsey

ORA Service & Development Manager

Oxford University Library Services

The JISC eBooks Working Group: achievements and challenges