February 16, 2021
University of Wyoming Libraries and the Wyoming State Library have partnered to launch the Wyoming Digital Newspaper Collection online.
This collection of historic newspapers combines the digital holdings of both institutions with a new interface that is more robust, providing easier, customizable searches and better results. More than 800,000 pages are now available, with new content added monthly. To search the Wyoming Digital Newspaper Collection, go to www.wyomingnewspapers.org.
“This collaboration is yet another example of libraries working together to bring additional information resources to the people of Wyoming and bringing the world to Wyoming,” says Thomas Ivie, Wyoming State Library research and statistics librarian.
Crowley Company Honored with Four 2021 Platinum Modern Library Awards
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The firm has been honored with LibraryWorks’ Modern Library awards for the seventh consecutive year.
“These awards are based on end-user feedback. To be honored with a Modern Library award is, by extension, to be honored by our customers. I find that both humbling and gratifying.” - Patrick Crowley, President, The Crowley Company FREDERICK, Md. (PRWEB) January 15, 2021
The Crowley Company (Crowley), a worldwide leader in digitization scanning solutions and services with offices in Frederick, Maryland, San Dimas, California and Basingstoke, UK, is pleased to announce that the firm has been honored with LibraryWorks’ Modern Library (MLA) awards for the seventh consecutive year. Since the award programs’ inception in 2015, Crowley has amassed 22 total awards, this year earning four Platinum distinctions, the highest honor
“An Historic Group: British and German Soldiers Photographed Together,”
Daily Mirror (London, England), January 8, 1915.
The fighting in Europe had been growing for almost five months when Pope Benedict tried to arrange a truce between nations in early December 1914 for Christmas. But his efforts failed when Russia declined the truce. The notorious trenches of World War I were filled with weary, cold soldiers. But along the British and German lines, a sudden rise of the Christmas Spirit among the soldiers created a phenomenon that wasn’t seen for the rest of the war the soldiers decided not to fight on Christmas. Stories of this unofficial Christmas Truce were published in newspapers around the world.
This blog post was written by
Jennie Horton, a 2020 Librarian-in-Residence in the Serial and Government Publications Division.
Winter is in full swing! The season’s shimmery first snow is always beautiful and exciting, but what about after the magic wears off? Icy temperatures, blustery winds, and inches upon inches of snow! This week, we look back on some of the nation’s biggest blizzards in history as reported by America’s newspapers.
“Blizzard was King,”
The Sun (New York, NY), March 13, 1888.
On March 11, 1888, a heavy rainstorm turned to snow which lasted three days. The Mid-Atlantic United States was covered in nearly three feet of snow halting trains, causing traffic accidents, and severing telegraph wires. Even the New York Stock Exchange couldn’t endure the Great Blizzard of 1888!