More Stephenville Newspapers Available at Portal to Texas History

On July 18, Dr. Ana Krahmer, Director of the Digital Newspaper Program at the University of North Texas Libraries, spoke at the Dick Smith Library on the Texas Digital Newspaper Program, the largest statewide open digital newspaper access and preservation repository in the United States. It includes over 7 million newspaper pages, spanning west to

Early Stephenville newspaper online at Portal to Texas History

The Stephenville Empire newspapers from 1882 to 1900 are now online at the Portal to Texas History!  The remaining issues of this early title (through 1917), as well as the early Stephenville Tribune (1905 through 1922) will appear in the future, so keep checking the Portal.  Please keep in mind that there are many gaps in

An 1890 Missing Person: Using Chronicling America to Learn More

The Dick Smith Library serves as a Regional Historical Resources Depository for original and microfilmed records for a number of Texas counties, including Coleman.  Two years ago, another library transferred to us a fascinating Coleman County Sheriff\’s ledger from 1887 to 1892 that contained notices about stolen and stray animals, and wanted and missing persons.  I posted about one

Find Old Newspapers with This Cool Tool!

At the recent Texas State Genealogical Society conference, I attended a presentation by Lisa Louise Cook, who showed us some \”cool tools\” for finding old newspapers.  I\’m just going to talk about one of them in this post, the Stanford Newspaper Data Visualization. According to its website, \”This visualization plots over 140,000 newspapers published over

Periodicals & Reference in a new location!

If you haven\’t had a chance to stop by the Dick Smith Library in the past week you might be in for a little bit of a shock. We\’ve been clearing out the main floor in preparation for the upcoming Learning Commons renovation but never fear! Our collections and computers that were in the area have

An 1891 Missing Person – Using Library Resources to Learn More

The Dick Smith Library serves as a Regional Historical Resources Depository for original and microfilmed records for a number of Texas counties, including Coleman.  Recently, another library transferred to us a fascinating Coleman County Sheriff\’s ledger from 1887 to 1892 that contained notices about stolen and stray animals, and wanted and missing persons.  This one

Texas Miner Now Online

The Dick Smith Library was awarded a Texas Cultures Online grant through The Portal to Texas History to digitize the Texas Miner newspaper. The project has been completed and the newspaper is now available online. The Portal to Texas History is a project of the University of North Texas Libraries to provide a gateway to

Need a News Video for a Presentation?

Dick Smith Library can help! Choose Newsbank from the library\’s database page. If you\’re off-campus, log in with your NTNET username and password. Click \”Access World News.\” Click the \”Source Types\” tab. Mark the checkbox for video (uncheck other types if desired). Enter your search terms and choose search fields (headline, caption, etc.). Click \”Search.\”

JTACs

Most old issues of the J-TAC student newspaper, through 2007 and going back 90 years to 1919, are now available on microfilm in the Periodicals section on the main floor of the library. The Periodicals department is open anytime the library is open, and the friendly student workers, led by Periodicals Specialist Sandy Dennis, will

Top Ten Tuesday – 10 top news sources

The beetles sang – \’I read the news today oh boy\’… We have all heard that print news and newspapers are slowly dying. That made me wonder, where are we getting our news from? I found this online from \”editor and publisher\”. Below are the top 10 current events and global news online destinations for