historcial newspapers, etc.

1. 2013 NERGC:
Librarians’ and Teachers’ Day
William Forsyth
17 April 2013

2. Indiana Jones
and the Last Crusade
In the 1989 movie,
nerdy Professor Henry
Jones Jr. (Indy) tells his
students that “Seventy
percent of archaeology
is done in the library.”

3. Indiana Jones
and the Kingdom of the
Crystal Skull
In the final 2008 movie,
Indy hops on Mutt’s bike
while trying to escape
from Russian agents.
They ultimately crash into
the library’s reading room.
As they climb back onto the bike, Indy shouts to the kids who
are studying, “if you want to be an archeologist, you have to
get out of the library!”

4. Where should genealogy
be done?
Everywhere!

5. Who is ProQuest?
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6. Largest Commercial Archive of Information
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In 1938, ProQuest
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them from the
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7. Over the years, ProQuest has amassed a collection
of six billion pages of information.

8. A Full Suite of Products to
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9. PROQUEST
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Online Heritage Library Edition
Ancestry ProQuest History Vault
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Library Edition Obituaries documents)
Sanborn Archival
Historical Fire Insurance Microfilm
Newspapers Maps Collections

10. ProQuest
Historical
Newspapers

11. U.S. Historical Newspapers
 The New York Times
 Wall Street Journal
 Washington Post
 The Christian Science Monitor
 Los Angeles Times
 Chicago Tribune
 Atlanta Constitution
 The Boston Globe
 Hartford Courant
 New York Tribune / Herald Tribune
 San Francisco Chronicle
 The Baltimore Sun
 St. Louis Post-Dispatch
 Detroit Free Press
 Indianapolis Star
 The Arizona Republican
 Cincinnati Enquirer
 Nashville Tennessean
 Newsday
 Louisville Courier-Journal

12. International Historical Newspapers
 The Global and Mail
 The Guardian and The Observer
 The Irish Times and Weekly Irish
Times
 The Scotsman
 Times of India
 Toronto Star
 The Jerusalem Post / Palestine
Post
 Chinese Newspaper Collection
 North China Herald
 The China Press
 The China Critic
 China Weekly Review

13. Black Historical Newspapers
 Atlanta Daily World
 The Baltimore Afro-American
 Chicago Defender
 Cleveland Call & Post
 Los Angeles Sentinel
 New York Amsterdam News
 The Norfolk Journal & Guide
 The Philadelphia Tribune
 Pittsburgh Courier

14. Jewish Historical Newspapers
 The American Hebrew &
Jewish Messenger
 The Jewish Advocate
 The American Israelite
 Jewish Exponent

15. Partnership
Announced March 2013

16. NewspaperARCHIVE.com Background
• Commercial online
database of digitized
newspapers which
includes 130M pages
of content from
6000+ newspapers
• Previously sold in
the library markets
as Access
NewspaperARCHIVE
.com

17. NewspaperARCHIVE Library Edition – Key
Differences from ProQuest Historical Newspapers
• Content is digitized at
the page level (not the
article level)
• There aren’t article types
• All parts of every page are
fully searchable
• Not necessarily full runs
of any individual title
• Not on the ProQuest
Platform

18. How does NewspaperARCHIVE fit with
other offerings from ProQuest?

19. NewspaperARCHIVE Library Edition
Interfaces
• NewspaperARCHIVE Public Library Edition
• Same interface as the consumer product
• Focus of messaging is on genealogy and family history
• Search-by-name is featured
• NewspaperARCHIVE Academic Library Edition
• Focus of the messaging is on historical research and
local history
• Keyword searching is featured
• Search-by-name has been removed
4/17/2013 19

20. New!
Ancestry Lesson Plans
Biography Lesson Example

21.  1940 Census
 African American Congressman
 Autobiography
 Biography
 Census and Constitution
 Census and Depression
 Civil War
 Civil War Military
 Haunted House
 Historical Crime
 How Life Influences Art
 Immigration
 Irish American
 Records in Your Community
 Revolutionary War
 Trail of Tears
 War of 1812
 Women Suffrage Movement
 World War One Mobilization for War
 World War Two

23. STEP ONE:
QUICK WRITE

25. Alfred M. Moen – inventor
and founder of Moen, Inc.

26. KWL CHART
 What do you know
about this person?
 What do I want to
learn?
 What did I learn?

27. STEP TWO:
PRELIMINARY RESEARCH

30. STEP THREE:
HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS

36. 1942 Patent
Application
Multivalved
Faucet

37. Alfred Moen, 84
Whose Hands Found Need for a New Faucet
By WILLIAM H. HONAN
New York Times
Published: April 21, 2001
Alfred Moen, who in the 1940's invented the single-handled
faucet in a fit of anger after twisting on a conventional two-
handled faucet and accidentally burning his hands, died
Tuesday at his home in Destin, Fla. He was 84.
It was while he was a mechanical engineering student at the University of Washington,
working in a garage to pay his tuition, that Mr. Moen made his painful discovery. ''The hot
water came on sooner than I had expected,'' he told his company's newsletter. ''It got me to
thinking that you ought to be able to get what you want out of a faucet. The more I thought
about it, the more I was convinced that a single-handled mixing faucet was the answer, so I
began to make some drawings.'‘ His first design was for a double-valve faucet with a cam to
control the two valves, but the manufacturer he showed it to was not impressed.
From 1940 to 1945, Mr. Moen made several other designs, but with the advent of World War
II he could not find a manufacturer free to start production. He went to work as a tool
designer at a military shipyard plant in Seattle,…

40. STEP FOUR:
ADD HISTORICAL FACTS

41. FRANKLIN HIGH SCHOOL, SEATTLE
Opened in 1912

42. The school was once deemed the most beautiful
high school west of the Mississippi and featured at
the Chicago World's Fair in 1933.

43. Children Influences
on Kitchen Design
• Younger than five
years old: Safety
• Age 5-12: Places for
kids to play or work
• Age 13 or older:
Ability to have two or
more cooks in the
kitchen at one time

44. STEP FIVE:
PRESENTATION
What you’ve just seen!

45. ProQuest Genealogy
Resources

46. ProQuest Genealogy Resources
http://prq.st/GenTools
Available today, this page brings together all of our
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• Tips and Guides • Posters
• Product Trials • And more
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50. Combines All Product Information

53. Thank You!
william.forsyth@proquest.com