A nearly complete archive of The Loon is now available on the moumn.org machine. This includes almost all issues of the magazine from 1939 to the present time. The idea to do this project came from Anthony Hertzel several years ago. Robert Janssen contributed his complete set of issues from 1959-2002, I scanned the issues and put them on moumn.org.
Access to Volumes and Pages Starting at http://moumn.org, click on MOU Publications -> On-Line Index to The Loon. Click on Issues. This brings up a page that shows all the covers of The Flicker and The Loon that have been scanned into the machine. You can access a volume by clicking on the year number (e.g. 1990.) This is slow since each issue is 6 - 15 Mbytes in size. Clicking on one of the issues brings up a page viewer. Using the same example, clicking on the Spring 1990 cover (Golden-crowned Sparrow) will bring up one-page at a time display. The buttons at the top of this page allow access to all of the 13,010 pages that make up The Flicker/The Loon archive. Access to Articles on Specific Species Starting at http://moumn.org, click on MOU Publications -> On-Line Index to The Loon. Click on a family, then the species. An index shows what issue of the magazine has what information about that species. For example, click on Thrushes and then click on Fieldfare. Click on the blue number under Vol. and the page comes up in the page viewer. Search for Something Starting at http://moumn.org, click on MOU Publications ->Search Index for The Loon. Type in key words and hit search. A group of pages are shown that have the search information. (The external company atomz.com has indexed all of the pages and provided the search engine.) Caveats Optical character recognition (OCR) is used to generate text from the scanned pages. Some of the characters may not be correct so a search might fail. Issues of the Loon before 1967 did not count covers as pages, so an index into an issue could return the wrong page. There is a lot of new software associated with this project, so there may be some errors. Please report errors and other requests to either Tony Hertzel or to me. Additions Tony Hertzel has the missing issues from 1929 - 1939. These will be added when time permits. Since there is only one copy of some of these issues, we don't want to cut them up for batch scanning. --- David Cahlander [email protected] Burnsville, MN 952-894-5910 ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
