Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

AnneYoungAu

No shortage of skeletons but they didn't guard convicts The first immigrants were farmers. One of the sons was killed by aborigines

vivatifosi

AnneYoungAu wrote: »

I have access to some paid newspaper sites and happy to help - I am very curious about things

In Australia we get free access using our free National Library membership to paid newspaper sites such as Gale Newspapers online which includes the Times Archive.

Don't you have an equivalent through your public library system?

I work in the library system here. There are some national resources, but most are left to the individual authority to choose what to buy. As a result, services can be very patchy.

If you live in a good local authority, you'll have access to far more newspapers online.

Where I live, for example, I have access to:

Library Press Display... current newspapers from round the world.
Zinio.... magazines online.
Times Digital Archive
British Library Newspapers (Gale)... full run of 48 national and regional papers.
British Newspaper Archive... hundreds of titles
Newsstand... all current UK broadsheets and other papers.
Illustrated London News
Sunday Times Historical Archive

Other library authorities should have at least some of these, and possibly some others that I'm not aware of.

Pyxis

LydiaJ wrote: »

On the subject of t'other place... I have posted a pic of that green dress with me in it.

:T :T :T

AnneYoungAu wrote: »

No shortage of skeletons but they didn't guard convicts The first immigrants were farmers. One of the sons was killed by aborigines

Shows how much I know!

Thinking about it, it would have been hard to escape from such a big island, , and I suppose from the point of view of the authorities in Britain, it was get well shod of the undesirables, and fewer prison costs. Get well shod and leave 'em to it.

I reckon the first planet we colonise will go the the same way!

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

.... services can be very patchy.

If you live in a good local authority, you'll have access to far more newspapers online.

Where I live, for example, I have access to:

Library Press Display... current newspapers from round the world.
Zinio.... magazines online.
Times Digital Archive
British Library Newspapers (Gale)... full run of 48 national and regional papers.
British Newspaper Archive... hundreds of titles
Newsstand... all current UK broadsheets and other papers.
Illustrated London News
Sunday Times Historical Archive

Other library authorities should have at least some of these, and possibly some others that I'm not aware of.

And you have to often "book" a PC, and pay for parking and be limited to how long you could have on a PC, so, it can work out more expensive to use the "free" services and/or you can be determined and never quite reach your objective as you ran out of time.

Where I live libraries are very confusing (to me) because I live on some borders of a few areas and within a 5-10 mile radius I think I need 4 different library cards issued by different authorities. I'd never have the right card with me

It's also difficult to look up easily what's available and where as websites are also patchy as to how much information they provide.

I just tried to look up one to see what they have to compare to your list and got "lost" and confused already.... but it looks like:

My Nearest/County:
YES: Times Digital Archive, Newsbank
NO: Anything else.

Next County:
YES: Zinio, Times Digital Archive.
NO: British Library Newspapers, British Newspaper Archive, Illustrated London News, Newsstand, Sunday Times Historical.

Closest Town:
Not really sure, might be the same as "My Nearest/County" as it's the same county, but a different Authority.

Town 15 Miles Away/Same County:
YES: British Newspaper Archive.
NO: Anything else.

AnneYoungAu

PasturesNew wrote: »

And you have to often "book" a PC, and pay for parking and be limited to how long you could have on a PC, so, it can work out more expensive to use the "free" services and/or you can be determined and never quite reach your objective as you ran out of time.

Where I live libraries are very confusing (to me) because I live on some borders of a few areas and within a 5-10 mile radius I think I need 4 different library cards issued by different authorities. I'd never have the right card with me

It's also difficult to look up easily what's available and where as websites are also patchy as to how much information they provide.....

Oh - We can use our National Library membership (open to all Australians) to look up these services at home. Our State Library also offers access at home. Or we can go to our local library and use their computers.

Pyxis

Pastures, I've no idea, but they might have some sort of reciprocal arrangement between them?

Might be worth enquiring.


Where I am, library membership extends to the whole county at least.

GDB2222

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vivatifosi

I should add that while some resources are library only, British Newspaper Archives being the biggie, most of the others can be used at home. So you only need go to the library infrequently (to join, then to update when membership expires). So distance needn't be an issue.

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

Where I am, library membership extends to the whole county at least.

I don't really understand Councils, but I think it's about things that might be called "Unitary Authorities" - where small bits decided they were "too important" to be part of the whole county, so broke away, with their own budget, buildings, services, websites etc...

You get the County .... then you get "bits".... and I'm just 3 miles from a border of a neighbouring county, where all theirs is "just one county" I think - but it's closer than some of my own county's "bits".

The other thing is "localism" ... while I might be able to go 5 miles down the road and read, online, the local newspapers from (say) 1825 .... you can't because you don't live here/belong to that library and can't get to it. That's frustrating... needing to physically attend a building to access something you might just wish to occasionally access "in case" it's got something.

On my county website they have a webpage that says ".... 25 libraries ...." but then fail to give you a list! No point telling me there's 25 if you're not going to show a pretty map! Or a list!

I then have to type in my postcode and it tells me the three nearest (1 mile, 3 miles, 6 miles) - and I can click on a map then - and if I zoom out by clicking about 15x I can see them all ... and they're a looong way away (10-30 miles each).

But that's my county - and I'm 3 miles from a border, so that'd be another/different website to find if they have a map.

It's all too hard.

And, if you randomly turn up at a library .... they're shut that day/time

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

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