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OurDigitalWorld is very pleased to announce our new All-in-One Newspaper Digitization Service!

Want to move your newspaper collection online? Whether you have paper or microfilm copies, index records, or clippings, we’ll do all the legwork and handle everything from digitization to display.

More information coming to this website soon. Meanwhile, you can check out this brochure or talk to us about your project ideas! info@ourdigitalworld.org

Building on great things, Whitby Public library has launched its new Whitby Digital Newspaper Collection. The project was made possible by a generous anonymous donation. Containing 40 titles and 140 years of local news, the newspapers can be browsed and index records searched. Coming soon will be full text searching for the newspaper pages themselves! These papers are a genealogists’ delight, and a boon for anyone from or interested in the history of Whitby, Ontario.
Check out the collection here and don’t forget to explore the Whitby Images site as well, where more than 6000 photos, documents and more.

The Multicultural History Society of Ontario is partnering with OurDigitalWorld and using the VITA Toolkit to provide free access to more than 100 hours of testimony in 23 languages and a collection of photographs representing more than 50 ethno-cultural communities.
Read the full press release here.

The summer issue of the Ontario Historical Society Bulletin arrived on our desks last week!
Ontario’s historical societies discover, preserve and celebrate heritage and culture in so many ways and we’re reaching out to help any way we can. Read on!

Join us at the Ontario Museum Association annual conference, October 17-19, 2012 in Niagara Falls!

Join us and learn more at these three great conferences in June:

Vote for more, better heritage news online!

OurDigitalWorld is a finalist for the EMC Heritage Trust Project grant–and your vote counts! ODW will use the grant to develop and enhance our existing beta news portals (http://ink.ourontario.ca and http://news2.ourontario.ca) so that we can streamline and increase access to one of the largest free collections of digitized newspaper pages and index records. Much of the news content is uploaded by VITA Toolkit subscribers!

The winning project is based on social media broadcasting and accumulated votes for the finalists. Help us with your votes and share the news on your Facebook pages!

http://www.facebook.com/emccorp/app_222471081145150

We’ll be demonstrating the VITA Toolkit at Ontario Library Association’s annual Super Conference. Join us February 2 and 3 at Expo booth #434/436 for an onsite tour of the software and featured collections.