View the Wednesday Word Online
In This Issue More Library News Anderson Herald Bulletin Children's lit festival ventures into opera, features singing Auburn Evening Star Eckhart Public Library to be closed during fair week Ball State Daily News Indiana celebrates Archaeological Month Batesville Herald Tribune City asked to consider ownership Chesterton Tribune Library director says township too small for WPL bookmobile Crawfordsville Journal Review Bringing Joys of a Great Book to Blind and Visually Impaired Readers Decatur Daily Democrat Library wireless use more than doubles in year Gary Post-Tribune Crown Point mayor, lawyer working on agreement on library parking Goshen News Babies and Books program set in Middlebury Greenfield Daily Reporter Magic, storytelling a winning combination Greensburg Daily News Huffington Post Libraries and the Demographic Shift Indiana Daily Student Public library honors feminist poet Kokomo Tribune Kokomo library has new director Michigan City News Dispatch Three kittens dumped near library find new homes Muncie Star Press Auditors: That grand old flag costs too much Muncie Star Press Library concludes 'Geek' campaign Muncie Star Press AU festival to focus on children's books New Castle Courier-Times Two displays to honor veterans Northeast Indiana News by Stacy Syracuse-Wawasee Digital Archives Northwest Indiana Times E.C. officials squeezing 2013 budget Northwest Indiana Times Ahead of move to new digs, existing C.P. library set to close Sept. 30 Northwest Indiana Times Officials hope for out-of-court resolution in C.P. library suit Richmond Palladium Item Word Puzzle Tournament will benefit Wayne County literacy group The Signal, Library of Congress DPOE Continues to Expand Trainer Network South Bend Tribune Commission votes to save Avon Theater South Bend Tribune At Open Book, families celebrate joy of reading Yorktown Press Adults can celebrate '12 Weeks of Reading
Your Library Making News? Email your news for inclusion in The Wednesday Word |
Indiana First to Digitize German Paper via Chronicling America Indiana will be the first state to make available digitized versions of German-language newspapers through the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) - a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages. Until now, the Library of Congress could not accept German-printed newspapers because the font type (Fraktur) represented significant challenges for its Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. However, recent OCR technology advancements have enabled the Indiana State Library to digitally preserve the Indiana Tribüne, making it the first German paper available on Chronicling America. The digitization of the Indiana Tribüne is part of the Indiana Historic Newspaper Digitization Project, which is funded by a $293,157 NEH grant to the Indiana State Library to digitize Indiana’s historically significant newspapers published between 1836 & 1922. Newspapers digitized as part of the two-year project will be included in the Library of Congress’ Chronicling America Database and on Indiana Memory. Learn more about the Indiana Historic Newspaper Digitization Project at indiananewspapers.wordpress.com or by contacting Chris Ittenbach, NEH-NDNP Project Manager, at 317-234-8153 or cittenbach@library.in.gov. Judges Sought for National Reading/Writing Contest The Indiana Center for the Book is currently seeking judges for this year’s Letters About Literature competition. Letters About Literature is a national reading-writing contest sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, in cooperation with the Indiana Center for the Book at the Indiana State Library. Students in grades 4 through 10 are invited to write a personal letter to an author, living or dead, from any genre, explaining how that author's work changed the student's way of thinking about the world or themselves. Approximately 1,500 Indiana students enter the contest annually. However, judges will only be required rate semifinalist essays in one category. The deadline to submit essays for this year’s contest is January 11, 2013. Judges will receive their first round of essays and judging materials in early February and have approximately two months to choose finalists. If you are interested in judging the 2012 contest, contact Drew Griffis at agriffis@library.in.gov. Visit the Indiana Center for the Book's website learn more about Letters About Literature and other Center programs. Stay tuned to next week's The Wednesday Word for more information on how your young patrons or students can participate in the contest. Historical Bureau Hosting Unique Book Signing on October 4 The Indiana Historical Bureau Book Shop is hosting three Hoosier authors—Marie Albertson, Lucy Jane King, MD, and Alan D. Schmetzer, MD—on Thursday, October 4 from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. in the Indiana State Library and Historical Building, 315 West Ohio Street in downtown Indianapolis. Two books by these authors will be sold at 20% off list price; authors will talk briefly about their books. Both books are from Hawthorne Publishing, Carmel. Visit the Indiana Historical Bureau website or call 317-232-2535 to place pre-orders. There will be limited book quantities at the reception. Parking will be available at the Senate Avenue State Parking Facility for $5.00. Street parking is also available. |
Registration Now Open for 21st Century Literacy Days Register today for the 21st Century Literacy Days hosted by the Indiana State Library and brought to you by the Indiana Geographic Information Office. Click here to register and for workshop & LEU details.
Dates &
Locations:
Upcoming Workshops,
Association for Library Service to Children National Institute
SAMS Conference -
IPLA Conference
Legislative Fall Forum -
AISLE Workshop: Getting the Most Out of INSPIRE -
Indiana Vision Expo & Vision Walk
Society of Indiana Archivists Fall Workshop
Basic INSPIRE Training
Indiana Genealogy & Local History
Fair
ILF
Annual Conference
View free LEU |
© 2012 Indiana State Library. All rights reserved. The trademarks used herein
are the trademarks of their respective owners.
Indiana State Library, 315 W. Ohio Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202.
www.library.IN.gov
The Wednesday Word is a free
publication of the Indiana State Library, distributed weekly in an
electronic format.
Past issues are archived at the
State Library's Newsroom.