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Extra! Extra! Chronicling America Reaches Six Million Pages!
As of Monday, March 18, 2013, the team at the Library of Congress has made some enormous improvements to Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Adding over 800,000 new pages to the database, the site now holds over 6 million pages … Continue reading
Restaurant Week: Restaurants Across the State
One of South Carolina’s newer events is Restaurant Week: a state-wide event held over eleven days that showcases the distinct and exciting restaurant scenes found across the state. As participating restaurants offer special deals during this time, attendees have the … Continue reading
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Restaurant Week: The Rise of the Restaurant
One of South Carolina’s newer events is Restaurant Week: a state-wide event held over eleven days that showcases the distinct and exciting restaurant scenes found across the state. As participating restaurants offer special deals during this time, attendees have the … Continue reading
Schofield Normal and Industrial School
The end of the Civil War ushered in a time of restoration in the Southern part of the United States. During this era, many people from the Northern part of the country felt the desire to move down South and … Continue reading
The Election of 1912
100 years ago this week, people were hitting the polls in what some historians consider one of the most influential and memorable presidential elections of United States history. Unlike what we are used to today, the 1912 election boasted not … Continue reading
Kudzu: The Vine that Ate the South
It is hard to imagine driving down a highway in the south and not seeing swaths of kudzu carpeting eroded gullies and forests. Although one would think it a permanent feature of the southern landscape, the kudzu vine was not … Continue reading
All Things Newspaper: Exciting projects associated with the National Digital Newspaper Program
Over the last two years, we have brought you information and updates on the South Carolina Digital Newspaper Program. SCDNP is part of the larger National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), along with 27 other states and the District of Columbia, … Continue reading
Watch Free Webinar on The Power of Digitization: Digitizing Historical SC Newspapers at the SCDNP
******* Have you heard about the SC Digital Newspaper Program (SCDNP) and would like to know more about what we do and which historical SC newspapers we are digitizing? Would you like to learn more about how to search and … Continue reading
Join Us for an Upcoming Webinar on March 30, 2012
Join us for a free webinar on March 30th, 2012. The South Carolina State Library is hosting a free webinar on The Power of Digitization: The South Carolina Digital Newspaper Project. This webinar will be geared toward library staff but … Continue reading
Finding that Needle in the Haystack: The Power of Full Text Searching in Chronicling America
Imagine scrolling through the microfilm reels, at your local library, hoping to uncover that one small mention on your research topic: a name, an event, a place. Perhaps, discovering that one piece of information takes hours, days, or more…Now, imagine, … Continue reading