Chronicling America Gets Even Better

Those of you who frequent our programs probably know how much I appreciate the Chronicling America Historic American newspapers website. They just keep making it better by extending its periods of coverage. Details are in this newsletter notice I cut-and-pasted from Library of Congress Weekly Digest Bulletin Sent Sun 10/29/2017 11:29 AM - Grace
Chronicling America : Historic American Newspapers (Digital Collection)
The Library of Congress has made some significant updates and additions to the Chronicling America web site recently: Newspapers selected and digitized by the Alaska State Library and History Colorado began to be added to the more than 12 million pages from 41 other states and territories and the District of Columbia Expanded coverage of the  twentieth-century newspapers, with some newspapers published up to 1943 now available (and more in process, up to 1963) - see http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/newspapers/ and sort by Latest Issue Available to see the most recent Adding to non-English newspapers already available published in French, German, and Spanish, Chronicling America now includes newspapers published by and for U. S. ethnic and immigrant communities in Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Italian, Icelandic, Polish, Slovenian and Swedish with more on the way. (Newspapers in these languages are now accessible from the site through browsing with the Ethnicity filter on http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/#tab=tab_newspapers and general keyword search -  additional language-specific search filters will be added shortly.) Updated software (github.com/LibraryOfCongress/chronam) and server architecture to improve performance and redundancy of resources. Now more than 12.4 million pages available, published 1789-1943, from 2361 titles, contributed by 43 states and territories and the Library of Congress Explore Chronicling America and point your RSS feed reader to http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/newspapers/feed/ for details on Recent Additions. Follow us on Twitter @librarycongress #ChronAm! Schedule adjustments: All units of the Library system will close at 5 pm on Wed., Nov. 22nd. All units of the Library system will be closed Thurs., Nov. 23rd and Fri., Nov. 24th for the Thanksgiving holidays. Regular hours resume on Sat., Nov. 25th.