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Using the FPRDNP for Online Newspaper Research Melissa Espino Project Coordinator UF George A. Smathers Libraries http://ufdc.ufl.edu/l/IR00008856/ Flo lori rida da & Pu Puerto rto Ric ico Dig igit ital al Newspaper wspaper Pro

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Using the FPRDNP for Online Newspaper Research

Melissa Espino Project Coordinator UF George A. Smathers Libraries

http://ufdc.ufl.edu/l/IR00008856/

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Flo lori rida da & Pu Puerto rto Ric ico Dig igit ital al Newspaper wspaper Pro roje ject ct

FPRDNP is part of the National Digital Newspaper

Program (NDNP)

Digitizing historical newspapers
published in FL & PR
1836-1922
Content
40 FL titles, 1 PR title
~103,000 total pages

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Content tent Incl cludes des

Florida
State Politics and Elections
Creation of University

System

Travel Reports
Entertainment
Agricultural Reports
Railways and Steamboats
Natural Disasters

From La Democracia (Ponce, PR) -Forthcoming

Puerto Rico
Governance
News from Spain
International News
Epidemics
Sale of Land and

Slaves

From The Ocala evening star (Ocala, FL) June 17,

1916. Article retrieved from Chronicling America.

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Chro ronic niclin ling g Ame meri rica ca

ChronAm is a database of historic newspapers published in the United States and its territories

date range expanded from

1836-1922 to 1690-1963 Currently houses over 11 million pages of newspapers contributed from 39 states and one territory

chroniclingamerica.loc.gov

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Chro ronAm nAm co conti tinued nued

Usefulness:

Primary source
Historical perspective
First hand accounts- news as it happened!
User friendly

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Chro ronAm nAm functi nctions ns

Search options:

General
Advanced
All newspapers

chroniclingamerica.loc.gov

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Adv dvan anced ced Se Sear arch ch

chroniclingamerica.loc.gov

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Add ddit itio ional nal Funct ctio ions ns

Zoom in/out by clicking these

buttons. Can

also use mouse scroll

Full screen view! Use these options to change page Use these options to change issue Save pdf

Zoom in and clip something

f interest.

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Abo bout t th the e pape apers rs

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Opti tical cal Char aracter acter Re Recog cogniti nition

n
Chronicling America is

fully searchable

Not perfect technology
Extraneous marks on page
Unusual Fonts
Misreading text or

combining words

Be patient with searches

and think outside of the box

Context
Time period

From the Monroe City Democrat (Monroe City, MO) August 22, 1907. Image Retrieved from Chronicling America. From the Pensacola Journal (Pensacola, Fla.) May 3,1913. Image Retrieved from Chronicling America.

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Se Sear arch ch Ti Tips

When searching think about…

Vocabulary
Historic spelling
Change in terms
Typos
Search parameters
Change scope to get more useful results
Diversify name searches
Affiliated organizations, businesses, and governing

bodies

From the Pensacola Journal (Pensacola, Fla.) August 26,1914. Image Retrieved from Chronicling America. From the Enterprise Recorder (Madison, Fla) July 14, 1910 Image Retrieved from Chronicling America.

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Re Reso sources urces

ChronAm topics pages

loc.gov/rr/news/topics

Edsitement lesson plans

edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plans

Project webpage

ufdc.ufl.edu/ufndnp

Lib guide

guides.uflib.ufl.edu/ufndnp

Social media accounts

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Ke Keep ep in in To Touch! ch!

Links: facebook.com/ufndnp twitter.com/ufndnp ufndnp.wordpress.com pinterest.com/ufndnp ufdc.ufl.edu/ufndnp guides.uflib.ufl.edu/ufndnp

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Tr Try a y a sa samp mple le se sear arch! ch!

chroniclingamerica.loc.gov