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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Have your patrons requested historic newspapers? Consider adding links to
<i>Chronicling America</i> and <i>Ohio Memory </i>to your website.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Chronicling America provides free online access to over 17 million digitized historic newspaper pages covering 1789-1963 from over 50 U.S. states and
territories. Made possible through the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a partnership between<s>
</s>the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Library of Congress, and state partners, like<span style="color:#1F497D">
</span>the Ohio History Connection. Ohio has added more than half a million pages to Chronicling America since 2008. Check out these high quality, full-text searchable, public domain newspaper pages at
</span><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">chroniclingamerica.loc.gov</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Find even more freely-available Ohio newspapers on Ohio Memory, the collaborative statewide digital library program of the Ohio History Connection and
the State Library of Ohio. These digital newspapers even go up to present day! </span>
<a href="https://ohiomemory.ohiohistory.org/newspapers"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Click here to see a full list of newspapers available on Chronicling America and Ohio Memory.</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#7030A0">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Plus, explore thousands of other materials documenting Ohio’s rich history, from prehistory to present day, including: photographs, diaries, archaeological artifacts, books, and more(!).
Celebrate Ohio Memory's 20th birthday this year by visiting </span><a href="https://ohiomemory.org/"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">ohiomemory.org</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Help your patrons discover Ohio's stories by linking these free resources on your websites. Who knows what you might find about your family or community’s
history!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Happy learning!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">-Jen Cabiya<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Project Coordinator for the National Digital Newspaper Program in Ohio<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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