[OPLINLIST] Fwd: On Line History Journals

[Stephen Hedges]

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Subject: On Line History Journals
From:    "Ruby Rogers" <RRogers at cincymuseum.org>
Date:    Wed, April 5, 2006 9:10 am
To:      director at oplin.org
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Can you distribute this information to your library network?

March 31, 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Rodger Pille, (513) 287-7054


Premier Historical Journals Posted Online
Five Publications from Cincinnati Historical Society Library Available to
Researchers World-Wide

The most thoughtful, accurate and engaging writing on the history of
Cincinnati is now available to everyone - students, teachers, scholars,
researchers or just curious minds - via a new web site initiative at
Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal.

Through a state of the art process, several 19th and 20th century historic
journals have been scanned and digitized and will now be available (and
searchable) on-line.

Over 20,000 pages from historic journals such as the Bulletin of the
Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio, The Cincinnati Historical
Society Bulletin, Queen City Heritage, The Cincinnati Quarterly Journal of
Science and the Journal of the Society of Natural History are
text-searchable and available through the Historical Society Library page
on our www.cincymuseum.org <http://www.cincymuseum.org> web page.

"Put simply," says John Fleming, vice president of museums for Cincinnati
Museum Center, "this is the best material written on Cincinnati, available
to anyone in the world with a computer. Using the latest technologies to
interpret and share our regional history is just one of the many important
ways that Museum Center serves this community."

Museum Center has created a full-text electronic database of five of its
19th and 20th century journals.  This database consists of:

	*	21 volumes of the Bulletin of the Historical and Philosophical Society
of Ohio, published from 1943 to 1963
	*	19 volumes of The Cincinnati Historical Society Bulletin, published
from 1964 to 1982
	*	17 volumes of Queen City Heritage, published from 1983 to 1999
	*	two volumes of The Cincinnati Quarterly Journal of Science, published
in 1874 and 1875
	*	22 volumes of the Journal of the Society of Natural History, published
between 1878 and 1945.

The three history journals cover a wide variety of local history topics
including:
	*	communities (Greenhills, Clifton, Over-The-Rhine, etc.)
	*	notable individuals (William Howard Taft, Salmon P. Chase, etc.)
	*	ethnic and religious groups (German Americans, African Americans, Jews,
etc.)
	*	local organizations and places (Cincinnati Fire Department, Eden Park,
Children's Hospital, Coney Island, etc.)
	*	cemetery records (extremely useful to genealogists).

The two natural history journals include articles on fossils, mound
builders, local flora and fauna, etc.

"The Cincinnati Historical Society Library and our history collections
program are the central repository for this region's historic items of
interest," Fleming says. "We collect and preserve these items so that we
can - now and forever - tell the true story of this area."

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Ruby Rogers, Director
Cincinnati Historical Society Library
Cincinnati Museum Center
1301 Western Avenue
Cincinnati, OH  45203
513-287-7080
513-287-7095 (fax)


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                 Stephen Hedges
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