2013 NERGC:Librarians’ and Teachers’ Day

William Forsyth17 April 2013

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

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

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!”

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Where should genealogybe done?

Everywhere!

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In 1938, ProQuest began an innovative project to microfilm the earliest English books to preserve them from the devastation of World War II.

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Over the years, ProQuest has amassed a collection of six billion pages of information.

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Times The Scotsman Times of India Toronto Star The Jerusalem Post / Palestine

Post Chinese Newspaper Collection

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PartnershipAnnounced March 2013

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

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

How does NewspaperARCHIVE fit with other offerings from ProQuest?

05/03/2023

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

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New!Ancestry Lesson Plans

Biography Lesson Example

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

STEP ONE:QUICK WRITE

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

KWL CHART What do you know

about this person?

What do I want to learn?

What did I learn?

STEP TWO:PRELIMINARY RESEARCH

STEP THREE:HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS

1942 Patent Application

MultivalvedFaucet

Alfred Moen, 84Whose Hands Found Need for a New Faucet By WILLIAM H. HONANNew York TimesPublished: 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,…

STEP FOUR:ADD HISTORICAL FACTS

FRANKLIN HIGH SCHOOL, SEATTLEOpened in 1912

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

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

STEP FIVE:PRESENTATION

What you’ve just seen!

ProQuest GenealogyResources

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Thank You!william.forsyth@proquest.com