{"id":1489,"date":"2011-06-14T09:19:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T13:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=1489"},"modified":"2011-06-14T09:19:03","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T13:19:03","slug":"purdue-libraries-digitize-indiana-farmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/2011\/06\/14\/purdue-libraries-digitize-indiana-farmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Purdue Libraries digitize Indiana Farmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<p>WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. &#8211; Purdue Libraries has completed the digitization of <em>Indiana Farmer <\/em>for the years 1851-1917, which chronicles the state of Hoosier agriculture in the pre- and post-Civil War years.<\/p>\n<p>The Library Services and Technology Act grant  from the Indiana State Library and the Institute of Museum and Library  Services provided funding for the digitization.<\/p>\n<p>The digitized <em>Indiana Farmer<\/em> increases  access to first-hand accounts of rural life in Indiana during the Civil  War era. Students, researchers and enthusiasts now have relatively easy  access to articles, editorials and advertisements about the routine life  of farmers and their families during a time when the country was  experiencing a threat to its existence.<\/p>\n<p>Research conducted during this time answered such  questions as: Do rabbits bite? Daniel Fiskel of Logansport concluded  that they do after his nose was bitten while holding the research  subject.<\/p>\n<p>Three lesson plans are available to help  elementary teachers integrate the digitized content into the state  history curriculum. Each digitalized issue is full-text searchable so  that users can more easily locate the newspaper content. The collection  will become part of the Indiana Memory project.<\/p>\n<p>The website also provides users descriptive information about the publication and project background.<\/p>\n<p>The digitized collection can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/e-archives.lib.purdue.edu\/collections\/indianafarmer\/\">http:\/\/e-archives.lib.purdue.edu\/collections\/indianafarmer\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact:<\/strong> Vicki Killion, associate professor of library science, 765-494-1417, <a href=\"mailto:vkillion@purdue.edu\">vkillion@purdue.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. &#8211; Purdue Libraries has completed the digitization of Indiana Farmer for the years 1851-1917, which chronicles the state of Hoosier agriculture in the pre- and post-Civil War years. The Library Services and Technology Act grant from the Indiana State Library and the Institute of Museum and Library Services provided funding for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[118,13,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collections","category-general","category-press_release"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pT6ms-o1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1492,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions\/1492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}