From attic to online

dc.audienceAudience::Audience::Newspapers Section
dc.conference.sessionTypeNewspapers
dc.contributor.authorKellerman, Sue
dc.contributor.authorWilson, Becky
dc.contributor.translatorAgosto, Marie-Christine
dc.date.accessioned2025-09-24T08:10:39Z
dc.date.available2025-09-24T08:10:39Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractAs one of four regional sites established to participate in the United States Newspaper Program for the state of Pennsylvania in the mid-1980s, the Central Field Office was assigned the task to survey and travel to towns and cities in 30 of the state’s 67 counties, in the rural, remote areas in Central and Northeastern Pennsylvania, to locate and catalog all newspapers that could be found. The systematic process the Project Team established yielded extraordinary discoveries and significant runs of presumed lost titles from once thriving towns and communities. By the end of their 30-county assignment in 1988, the Team had discovered that an astonishing number of titles were held in the hands of private citizens and newspaper publishers, who represented 59% of the sites visited, or over half. What the Team accomplished in rural Pennsylvania, including recommending many of these titles for microfilming, ultimately laid the groundwork for the digitization efforts now underway as part of Pennsylvania's involvement in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). By 2014 an estimated 350,000 pages of Pennsylvania newspapers, including many found in private hands, will be freely accessible online, meaning for these papers their journey from "attic to online" is complete. This paper chronicles the innovative field work conducted by the Central Field Office Project Team in rural Pennsylvania as they cultivated relationships within communities and with private citizens in their attempt to seek, find, and ultimately gain access to previously unknown and rare newspaper collections.en
dc.description.abstractLe Bureau Extérieur Central de l’état de Pennsylvanie, qui est l’un des quatre sites régionaux des Etats-Unis désignés pour participer au Programme National sur les Journaux, s’est vu confier la mission d’enquêter sur, et de visiter, des petites et grandes villes de 30 des 67 contés de l’état, situées dans des zones rurales et éloignées de Pennsylvanie du Centre et du Nord-est, afin de localiser et de répertorier tous les journaux qui pouvaient s’y trouver. La procédure systématique que l’équipe engagée dans le projet a mise en place a permis de faire des découvertes extraordinaires et de mettre au jour des séries conséquentes de titres présumés perdus, venant de petites villes et communautés autrefois prospères. A la fin de leur mission dans les 30 conté en 1988, l’équipe a découvert qu’un nombre étonnant de titres étaient entre les mains de particuliers et d’éditeurs de journaux, sur 59% des sites visités, soit plus de la moitié. Ce que l’équipe a accompli en Pennsylvanie rurale, notamment en recommandant que plusieurs de ces titres soient mis en microfilms, a finalement servi de base au travail de numérisation qui est actuellement mené par la Pennsylvanie dans le cadre du Programme National de Numérisation des Journaux. On estime que d’ici 2014, 350 000 pages de journaux de Pennsylvanie, y compris ceux qui sont possessions privées, seront librement accessibles en ligne, ce qui permettra à ces journaux d’achever leur voyage du grenier à la toile. Cette communication rend compte du travail de terrain novateur qui a été mené dans les zones rurales de Pennsylvanie par l’équipe en charge de ce projet au sein du Bureau Extérieur Central, et les relations que l’équipe a entretenues avec les communautés et avec les particuliers dans le but de chercher, trouver et finalement d’accéder à des collections de journaux rares et jusque là inconnus.fr
dc.identifier.citation1 http://www.neh.gov/ 2 http://www.neh.gov/us-newspaper-program 3 http://www.oclc.org/en-US/home.html 4 See “Telephone Calls” in Glossary of Terms at: https://sites.psu.edu/ourstorycentralpausnewspaperproject/glossary-of-terms/ 5 See “August 1985 Monthly Report” at: https://sites.psu.edu/ourstorycentralpausnewspaperproject/reports-1985/ 6 See “April 1985 Monthly Report” at: https://sites.psu.edu/ourstorycentralpausnewspaperproject/reports-1985/ 7 See “November 1985 Monthly Report” at: https://sites.psu.edu/ourstorycentralpausnewspaperproject/reports-1985/ 8 See “October 1987 Monthly Report” at: https://sites.psu.edu/ourstorycentralpausnewspaperproject/reports-1987/ 9 Dr. Barbara Smith and Project Team members Sue Kellerman and Becky Wilson were interviewed by WPSX-TV Host Keith Stevens for Public Television’s “Taking Note” Program that aired on Wednesday, April 22, 1987, at 5:45 p.m. on Channel 3, and 7:15 p.m. on Channel 25. 10 See "Thank-You Letters" in Glossary of Terms at: https://sites.psu.edu/ourstorycentralpausnewspaperproject/glossary-of-terms/ 11 http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/ 12 http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/digipres/panp/padnp.html
dc.identifier.relatedurlhttp://2013.ifla.org
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.ifla.org/handle/20.500.14598/5180
dc.language.isofr
dc.rightsAttribution 3.0 Unported
dc.rights.accessRightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
dc.subject.keywordPennsylvania Newspaper Project
dc.subject.keywordPennsylvania State University
dc.subject.keywordPennsylvania newspapers
dc.subject.keywordprivate collectors
dc.subject.keywordnewspaper publishers
dc.subject.keywordmicrofilm
dc.titleFrom attic to onlineen
dc.titleDu grenier à la toilefr
dc.typeArticle
ifla.UnitSection:Newspapers Section
ifla.oPubIdhttps://library.ifla.org/id/eprint/221/

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