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Holiday Hours for Labor Day
(Posted August 18, 2010)
The Tennessee State Library and Archives will be closed on Monday, September 6th, 2010, for the Labor Day holiday. We will reopen at 8am on Tuesday, September 7th. Tennessee Electronic Library Helps to Answer: "What Do I Read Next?"
(Published: August 16, 2010)
The Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL) has introduced a new tool to help readers find the perfect “next book.” TEL has partnered with Gale, a division of Cengage Learning that is recognized as a leader in providing electronic research and educational resources, to offer Books & Authors, an Internet resource that offers a new way to explore the endless possibilities and combinations of books, authors and topics. TEL is a virtual library that provides free access for Tennesseans to thousands of magazines, scholarly journals, newspapers, podcasts and videos – as well as hundreds of academic tutorials and practice exams. Historic Tennessee Newspapers to Be Available Online
(Published: July 30, 2010)
Thousands of issues of old newspapers from across Tennessee will be available to the public online, courtesy of the Tennessee State Library and Archives. Using grant funding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program, the State Library and Archives will make available dozens of urban and rural newspapers from across the state. The State Library and Archives, which is part of the Tennessee Department of State, has been preserving newspapers on microfilm since 1957. The two-year process of converting those microfilmed documents into digital records will be managed by the University of Tennessee. State Library and Archives to Provide Database of Civil War Battlefields
(Published: July 27, 2010)
The Tennessee State Library and Archives (TSLA) will use a $40,750 grant from the National Park Service’s American Battlefield Protection Program to develop an online database of the state’s Civil War battlefields that will be available for federal, state and local planning agencies as well as the general public. This project will use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology to create the database. The database will link information from the Civil War Sourcebook for Tennessee to Civil War maps and documents archived at TSLA. This enhanced resource will be available on TSLA’s section of the Tennessee Department of State web site. State Archivists to Appear at the Rutherford County Archives on August 6
in Search of Civil War Memorabilia
(Published: July 19, 2010)
Representatives from the Tennessee State Library and Archives and the Tennessee State Museum will be in Murfreesboro on August 6 to record and digitize Civil War memorabilia owned by local residents for a new exhibit. Nashville City Directory
(Posted 7/13/2010)
A scan of the directory for 1868 has been added to our collection of Scanned Copies of Nashville City Directories.
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