Goderich Signal Star, 2017-02-01, Page 1616 Signal Star • Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Old local newspapers being
digitized for online access
Justine Alkema
Postmedia Network
This week, historic Clinton
New Era newspapers, now
known as the Clinton News
Record, will be available
online.
It isn't just the Clinton
New Era that is making its
debut on the interweb, but
all of Huron County's histori-
cal papers.
This project is being done
by Cultural Services at the
County of Huron, the Huron
County Library and Huron
County Museum.
Cultural Services is getting
the papers from old micro-
film belonging to the local
library of each respective
paper. For example, Clin-
ton's library has microfilm of
the Clinton New Era.
However in the past, if
someone wanted to view an
old paper, they had to go to
the library and look at the
film on a microfilm reader,
like the one pictured with
this article. On a microfilm
reader, one must manually
scroll through film to find
what they're looking for.
Now with papers being
available online, the process
will be far easier, and availa-
ble to people in their homes.
First, it is easier to find a
specific article or topic as
words are searchable; this is
made possible due to a com-
puter program that "reads"
the text as best as it can and
creates a transcript that can
be searched.
On top of that, online
images of the paper are
higher quality than
microfilm.
Curator of Engagement
and Dialogue Sinead Cox,
who was the Special Projects
Coordinator when the pro-
ject started last fall, said the
project is important for sev-
eral reasons.
First, she said, it's crucial
for researchers. They see
researchers coming in often
for information of local his-
tory and genealogies.
"We see researchers all the
time," said Cox. "Now we've
already had feedback that
people from GTA and Cali-
fornia who can't drive up
here to do that research are
finding their families online
and stuff they never knew."
She said it's also an impor-
tant project for preservation
of the old papers as micro-
film gets scratched and
dated. It's also convenient
for students doing research.
"We want to make the
papers accessible to as many
people as possible, and they
may be used in more ways_
than maybe we even know."
"The program will be
ongoing for years," said Cox.
"We have so many papers
out there. So if people notice
the paper isn't there, it might
take some time to come up."
The papers are available
on www.huroncounty.ca/
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countymuseum.ca.
Papers that are online thus
far and will be put up.in the
future are listed below.
Online thus far.
The Blyth Standard,
1893-1977
Th.e Brussels Post,
1884-1929
The Exeter Advocate,
1888-1924
The Exeter Times,
1873-1924
The Exeter Times'Advo-
cate, 1924-1926
Huron Gazette (Goder-
ich), 1848-1849
The Huron Signal (Goder-
ich), 1848-1936
The Wingham Times,
1885-1916
The Wingham Advance,
1902-1921
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Still to come in the future:
The Seaforth News, The
Seaforth Sun, The Brussels
Post, The Huron News Record,
The Clinton News Record, The
Advance (Zurich), The Goder°
ich Star, The Her-
ald (Zurich), The Lucknow
Justine Alkema/Clinton News Record
Before the newspaper digitization project, those wishing to
view old newspapers had to go to the library in the town of
each respective newspaper and scroll through microfilm on a
microfilm reader like the one pictured here.
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The East Huron
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