'Papers Past' updates **completed**

[Yorvick]

Thank you,

Would never have known if you hadn't said anything - lol oh dear can see the window washing being put off even longer now!

[Thamesite2017]

Just when you think that PAPERS PAST can't get any better and they add
show preview Images

Need to go to advanced search/refine and put a tick
sure saves a heap of time clicking to see if you are on the right track or not

Once again  thankyou papers past 
Bye
Althea

[jericho]

Hi Althea



Thanks for letting us know about the new releases, looking forward to looking at the Marlborough Express and the Timaru Herald.



jericho

[johnbarr]

Thanks heaps Althea 

The preview images make searching much easier - great improvement !

John B

[PapersPast]

Just when you think that PAPERS PAST can't get any better and they add
show preview Images

Need to go to advanced search/refine and put a tick
sure saves a heap of time clicking to see if you are on the right track or not

Once again  thankyou papers past 
Bye
Althea

I would like to also mention that Papers Past material is now also searchable via DigitalNZ, which presents a different way to search through PP material. It is not yet full-text, so for queries involving names within body text it won't enable anything new, but for searching through images it can provide some very interesting results.
For example, try copy and pasting this URL into the address bar, but replace the word "donkey" at the end with a search term of your choice:

http://search.digitalnz.org/en/search?commit=Search&facet_limit=5&filter[category]=Images&filter[collection]=Papers+Past&filter[content_partner]=National+Library+of+New+Zealand&filter[placename]=New+Zealand&page=1&search_text=donkey

It can make tracking down specific image results much quicker. Also, it's always good to have another tool in the arsenal, just in case.

[Thamesite2017]

Thanks for that
I have to confess I don't make regular use of Digital NZ portal
Your tips are very helpful as always 
Bye
Althea

[PapersPast]

Thanks for that
I have to confess I don't make regular use of Digital NZ portal
Your tips are very helpful as always 
Bye
Althea

You're very welcome :-)

[PapersPast]

Hi everyone, I've been catching up on posts, and realised I should let you all know about our content updates this year.

We aim to do four updates every 12 months, and we are not far off doing our third since december at the moment, because we've been pretty busy. A few weeks ago we did our first collaborative release, with external libraries and community groups helping to pay for digitisation of historic local titles - some were new to Papers Past, and a few were extensions to the existing collection (note that Bay of Plenty Times now goes up to 1920, for example).

We have recently announced our collaborative agreement with Auckland City Libraries, who happen to hold a lot of microfilms of the Auckland Evening Star, the NZ Herald, and other titles.
We are aiming to do another release within the next month, and one more ahead of Family History Month, and we hope that these releases will be as useful to you all as they are significant to us.

Once we have a firm (-ish) date for the next release, I'll let you all know -

Regards,

Emerson

[Koromo]

We have recently announced our collaborative agreement with Auckland City Libraries, who happen to hold a lot of microfilms of the Auckland Evening Star, the NZ Herald, and other titles.

Now, that is something to really look forward to.   

The PapersPast archive is absolutely wonderful!  I've learned so much about my family which I'd never have known without it.

A very big THANK YOU.

Koromo