- Why can’t I
see all of the Pittsburgh
Jewish Newspapers online?
- Some issues are missing or were never
published.
- How can I search
the Pittsburgh
Jewish Newspapers?
- To search the collection online, go the Search
page and enter the word(s) or phrase (such as author, title, subject, and
date) to search all of the pages inside the newspapers for your term(s).
The results will display the records of the newspaper(s) with your
terms.
- What is OCR and how
does it affect my searching capability?
- OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is the
technology by which digital images are transferred into a searchable
text document.
- OCR works best with originals or very clear
copies of documents, books, journals, newspapers, etc, with standard
type fonts such as Times, New Roman.
- OCR has several limitations such as the
inability to recognize stylized or usual fonts and bold, italicized, and
underlined text. It also does not recognize items such as forms, fuzzy
or blurry photocopies, mathematical formulas, and handwritten text.
- Since the Pittsburgh Jewish Newspapers use
stylized fonts, it is inevitable that the OCR software will occasionally
fail to convert certain text and document types; therefore, affecting
and limiting the user’s searching capabilities.
- Who should I
contact for research assistance?
- For help with research concerning The Jewish Criterion, please contact:
Martha L. Berg,
Archivist
Rodef Shalom Congregation
4905 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh,
PA 15213
412-621-6566 ext. 131
berg@rodefshalom.org
- For help
with research concerning The
American Jewish Outlook, please contact:
Susan M. Melnick,
Archivist
Rauh Jewish Archives
Senator
John Heinz
History Center
1212 Smallman Street
Pittsburgh,
PA 15222-4200
412-454-6406
smmelnick@hswp.org
- Who should I
contact for technical assistance?
- For help
with technical questions, please contact:
Gabrielle V. Michalek
Head, Digital Library
Initiatives
University Libraries
Carnegie
Mellon University
4909 Frew Street
Pittsburgh,
PA 15213-3890
(412) 268-7268
gm1l@andrew.cmu.edu
- How do I cite the
collection?
- [The Pittsburgh
Jewish Newspaper Project], Carnegie
Mellon University
Libraries, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. Documents
that have been scanned and made available online may be cited by their
persistent URL
- Are there other
collections in the digital collections that might be of interest to me?
- There are eight collection containing over one million
pages of online information. You may access these collections through
the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries Digital Collections website at
: http://diva.library.cmu.edu/
- What
issues are still needed?
- We are seeking
missing issues to complete The Jewish
Criterion collection online. The newspapers were variously identified
by date and/or number.
Issues Needed
1895-1901 all issues
1902 #5 (Jan.) #17 (Apr.) #22 (May)
1903 Jan.-May 15
1906-1910 all issues
1911 #22
1913 #1-26 (Jan.-Aug.)
1914 #48-52 (Jan.)
1916 Sept. 11
1917 Jan.-Mar., June-Aug., Oct.-Dec.
1920 all issues
1921 Jan. 2
1931 #19 (Mar.)
1946 #15 (Feb.)
1947 July-Dec.
1952 #12-13 (Jan.)
1959 #13 (Jan.)
- How
can I help?
- Help support and complete The Pittsburgh Jewish
Newspaper Project with a monetary contribution or by donating some of
the missing issues, if you have them.
Make
checks payable to:
P.J.N.,
Carnegie Mellon University
Libraries
Send
donations (checks or newspaper issues) to:
Gloriana
St. Clair
Dean,
University Libraries
Carnegie Mellon
University
4909 Frew Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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