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CRRA Catholic Newspaper Program (CNP) Overview Progress report and next steps How will my institution use this resource or add content?. Scope: North American Catholic newspapers
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CRRA Catholic Newspaper Program (CNP) • Overview • Progress report and next steps • How will my institution use this resource or add content?
Scope: North American Catholic newspapers • Conduct an environmental scan to determine what newspapers exist, where located, and extent of holdings and formats • Create a comprehensive, fully searchable Directory • Develop Repository Develop an attractive resource to showcase the Directory
Summer 2012 Pilot project • St. Michaels at Univ of Toronto identified Canadian titles • Notre Dame identified 800+ US titles mined from existing sources, including: • U.S. Newspapers Program • Center for Research Libraries • Member holdings including: • Georgetown Newspaper Volumes in Special Collections • Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center (PAHRC) holdings • Catholic Newspapers in Microform: A Directory of Works at Notre Dame
Digitization • Pittsburgh Catholic, 1844-1900 (Duquesne) • Boston Pilot (Boston College) • The Catholic Standard & Times, 1866-1923 (Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center (PAHRC), Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary, Villanova University • Targeted: Indiana diocesan newspapers (University of Notre Dame), Wisconsin diocesan papers (Marquette)
Next steps: • Merge Canadian and US holdings • Reconcile titles • Add titles from Wisconsin Historical Society • Migrate data to a relational database • Gather member data • Continue to mine existing sources • Conduct a survey of holdings in archives and libraries within academic, diocesan, seminary and religious order institutions. • Continue to identify titles for digitization • Develop a user interface for the directory
CONTRIBUTING TO THE CNP: Content • Who can use the content? • How is my institution going to add content? • To what are we adding? • What data should we submit? How?
Directory Development (intellectual) • Add 200 titles from list provided by the Wisconsin Historical Society • Reconcile titles to support creation of master records in Directory • Support intellectual work in moving data into a relational database with the goal of creating master records • Mine existing sources for titles not yet identified (Worldcat, Willging and Hartzfeld’sCatholic Serials of the 19th century, Clarence Brigham’s Bibliography and History of American Newspapers) • Develop tool to survey members for holdings, add member holdings to the Directory • Conduct a survey of holdings in archives and libraries within academic, diocesan, seminary and religious order institutions (discover hidden collections - survey broadly for holdings not identified in existing sources) • Directory Development (technical): Develop a searchable, browsable user interface (continuum of possibilities ranging from as simple as web browser in FileMaker to a platform such as Veridian or Readex)