The California Digital Newspaper Collection: an introduction

• Is your California library considering a newspaper digitization project?

If so, the California Digital Newspaper Collection (CDNC) is a very import resource for you.

Join Brian Geiger, Director of the Center for Bibliographic Studies and Research at the University of California, Riverside and manager of a number of digitization and digital humanities projects, including the CDNC, for this introduction and explanation of the project.

In this one-hour webinar, you will know about:

• The CDNC and its high value for researchers and library practitioners
• The free professional consultation services that the CDNC offers to California libraries and other “memory” institutions
• How you can collaborate with the CDNC to digitize and make your newspapers available online.

This webinar will be of interest to staff in all types of California libraries involved in research and digitization projects.

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Keywords: Digitization, Outreach