The current issue of the Canadian Jewish News (Montreal edition) has an article about a promising digitization project. The full article is available at: http://www.cjnews.com/viewarticle.asp?id=7006. Here are the first few paragraphs:
>Adler and Chronicle to be digitized by JPL > >By JANICE ARNOLD >Staff Reporter > >Two of the oldest Jewish periodicals in Canada are about to receive a new >life using the latest technology. > >The Kanader Adler, a Yiddish daily founded in Montreal in 1907, and the >Canadian Jewish Chronicle, an English weekly launched in 1914, also out of >Montreal, are to be digitized by the Jewish Public Library (JPL) in a >fully-searchable facsimile format. > >Issues from the 1920s and '30s will be the first to go online because this >formative and turbulent period is of particular interest to researchers, >said JPL archivist Shannon Hodge. > >At the same time, the JPL is also going to digitize issues of Le Goglu >(1929-33), one of Quebec fascist Adrien Arcand's anti-Semitic >publications, because of its related interest. > >If sufficient funding is found, the papers will go online in the fall of >2006, free of charge. Eventually, the JPL wants to digitize the entire run >of Adler and Chronicle, which ceased publication in the 1970s. > >The scanning will be done from the master microfilms. The JPL holds the >master reels for the Chronicle, and the New York Public Library has agreed >to lend its master of the Adler for this project. Zachary Baker Stanford University Libraries Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the AJL =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
