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The Georgia Bulletin: Sixty years of The Georgia Bulletin

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The Georgia Bulletin: Sixty years of The Georgia Bulletin . “A project of the Office of Archives and Records of the Archdiocese of Atlanta, full text issues of the local Catholic newspaper from 1963 to current times are now digitized. Over several years, the Office of Archives and Records sent batches of historical print issues of The Georgia Bulletin for preservation scanning. This protects fragile papers from further damage. Researchers can now easily access local Catholic history in north Georgia.”

The Ruth Finley Collection: Digitizing 70 Years of the Fashion Calendar (Fashion Institute of Technology)

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Fashion Institute of Technology: The Ruth Finley Collection: Digitizing 70 Years of the Fashion Calendar. “The Fashion Calendar, which was published by Ruth Finley from 1941-2014, has long been the premier event resource for fashion, beauty, media, and culture. … Every issue of The Fashion Calendar with its iconic pink pages was donated to FIT, and now the calendar — more than 3,000 issues and upwards of 30,000 pages of material — has been fully scanned and digitized, is searchable and downloadable for free, by anyone wherever they are.”

Mission Local: Hidden history of BART revealed in newly digitized newsletters

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Mission Local: Hidden history of BART revealed in newly digitized newsletters. “Did you know that BART employees used to get big bonuses for coming up with ideas that saved the transit authority money Resourceful city workers whose insights were rewarded are immortalized in the pages of BARTalk, the organization’s old newsletter, alongside fun events in BART history, features on rarely acknowledged jobs, and details about the much-anticipated annual picnic. Now, thanks to an unofficial project by BART enthusiast Vincent Woo, two decades of the newsletter have been digitized and are available online for public perusal.”

Team GCN: GCN unveils free Digital Archive giving access to first 10 years of Ireland’s national LGBTQ+ press

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Team GCN: GCN unveils free Digital Archive giving access to first 10 years of Ireland’s national LGBTQ+ press. “As the nation’s queer paper of record, for the past 35 years, GCN has documented the lives of LGBTQ+ people in Ireland. Until now, the early days of the magazine have been unavailable to the public due to their existence in print form only; the delicate newspapers stored carefully away. Today, June 19, celebrating the start of Dublin Pride week, GCN launches an online archive of its first 10 years, making our community’s history accessible to the public for the very first time.”

WordPress: New to Newsletter — Earn With Paid Subscriptions

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WordPress: New to Newsletter — Earn With Paid Subscriptions. “Since its debut last December, we’ve been improving WordPress.com Newsletter to meet the needs of writers and creators everywhere. Now we’re introducing a big update — the ability to add paid subscriptions and premium content, whatever plan you’re on. Including the Free plan.”

Nursing Times: Historic archive of Nursing Times issues launched

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Nursing Times: Historic archive of Nursing Times issues launched. “Nursing Times has launched an archive of its print issues published since 1905, meaning subscribers can now dip into the history of nursing at the touch of a button.” Access is restricted to subscribers, but non-subscribers can do a search of the archives and purchase individual issues.

The Tyee: We Should Be Archiving MPs’ Newsletters

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The Tyee: We Should Be Archiving MPs’ Newsletters. “It is the collection of large and small acts of transparency, like MPs posting their householders online, that helps rank Canada as one of the best democracies in the world. Canadians might therefore expect that making householders readily available to anyone who requests one is normal. Not so.”

American Legion: 50 years of Sons of The American Legion newsletters now available

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American Legion: 50 years of Sons of The American Legion newsletters now available. “More than 1,400 pages of Sons of The American Legion newsletters are now available through the American Legion Digital Archive. Digitization of this material was made possible by the Sons organization to support their upcoming centennial. The newly available newsletters focus on national SAL activities, particularly national meetings. For the first time, early activities of squadrons and detachments can be explored in the Legion Heir newsletter.”

Oklahoma Department of Libraries: The archivists at the Oklahoma Department of Libraries digitized 285 prisoner newsletters, spanning from 1937 to 1973, for you to view online.

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Oklahoma Department of Libraries: The archivists at the Oklahoma Department of Libraries digitized 285 prisoner newsletters, spanning from 1937 to 1973, for you to view online.. “The newsletters were written by the inmates at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary and Oklahoma State Reformatory. The collection consists of five different newsletters: The Eye Opener, Soonerland, Tidings, Granite Nugget, and the OSR News & Views.”

WordPress: Write and Publish Your Newsletter on WordPress.com

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WordPress: Write and Publish Your Newsletter on WordPress.com. “We’re introducing WordPress.com Newsletter – with its own dedicated theme – to make it even easier to get up and running without going through the full website-building process. Newsletter gives you a place to write and build an audience, with the flexibility of WordPress under the hood to grow in many different directions.”

Sierra Club San Francisco Bay: Earliest Yodelers Digitized & Online

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Sierra Club San Francisco Bay: Earliest Yodelers Digitized & Online. “The first five years of our Chapter’s Yodeler newsletter have been digitized and are now accessible online here through the Sierra Club Colby Library’s Internet Archive. Published between 1939 and 1944, these early issues of the Yodeler offer a glimpse into early activities at our Chapter, from regional conservation news to tips for camping in the Sierra Nevada.”

WKYC: Ohio’s LGBTQ news media through the decades

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WKYC: Ohio’s LGBTQ news media through the decades. “The Gay People’s Chronicle published a guide to safe sex during the height of the AIDS crisis. It was delivered to each member of Cleveland City Council as a reminder that they represented everyone. Even President Obama took out a campaign ad during the 2008 election.”

Poynter: More than 50 local newsrooms launched during the pandemic

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Poynter: More than 50 local newsrooms launched during the pandemic. “The pandemic changed the news business and, in a lot of ways, not for the better. It accelerated layoffs. It hastened the end of more than 100 news organizations. It led a handful of newsrooms losing their actual newsrooms. But in some communities, the pandemic also clarified the value of reliable information. More than 50 local newsrooms launched in the United States in 2020 and 2021. Nearly as many local newsletters started publishing in that time. We found them in 27 states and Puerto Rico.”

TechCrunch: Google’s R&D division experiments with newsletters powered by Google Drive

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TechCrunch: Google’s R&D division experiments with newsletters powered by Google Drive. “Following entries into the newsletter market from tech companies like Facebook and Twitter, Google is now experimenting with newsletters, too. The company’s internal R&D division, Area 120, has a new project called Museletter, which allows anyone to publish a Google Drive file as a blog or newsletter to their Museletter public profile or to an email list.”