1. The Pittsburgh Jewish Newspaper Project Supporting the Needs of an External Community Gabrielle V. Michalek Head of Archives & Digital Library Initiatives

2. CMU’s Pittsburgh Jewish Newspapers Project (PJN) o Collection o Collaborators o Customers o Challenges & opportunities o Honors

3. PJN began in 2004 o The Jewish Criterion, 1895-1962 o The American Jewish Outlook 1934-1962 o The Jewish Chronicle, 1962-present o Y-Weekly, 1926-1976 Jewish Community Ctr news

4. PJN Today o 230,000 images in TIFF format o 8,700 PDF-As o Approximately 12TB o Managed in ArchivalWare

5. Collaborators o Posner Family – funding o CMU Libraries - technology, know-how o Content  Rodef Beth Shalom Library & Archive  Rauh Jewish Archives, Heinz History Ctr  The Jewish Chronicle Office

6. Community Involvement o Additional funding from the Jewish community  Jewish Federation  Philip Chosky Charitable Educational Fdn  “Donate Now” button o Jewish Chronicle ran stories about the project and fundraising efforts

7. CMU Archives’ Typical Customers o University administration o CMU students o Advanced researchers

8. PJN’s Typical Customers o Staff at contributing institutions o Local historians o Genealogists o Ancestry.com

9. Challenges o New information management system o Powerful, more sophisticated IMS – more difficult to use o Less technologically-savvy user group o Managing expectations

10. Challenges o Communication o People at CMU Libraries had little understanding of how genealogists work o People at partner organizations required additional training

11. Opportunities o Community outreach and service o Enabling digital access to rich local content o Preserving Pittsburgh Jewish heritage

12. Opportunities o Expanded understanding of user needs o Fostered productive dialog among partners o Improved presentation of metadata o Enhanced website functionality and design

13. Honors o It was an honor to work with the Jewish community to help preserve Pittsburgh Jewish history o Scout Report and other web rating services -  “engaging”  “a great resource for researchers” o “A remarkable example of community collaboration” - Cleveland Jewish History Cyber Pioneers

14. Thank You Gabrielle V. Michalek gabrielle@cmu.edu The Pittsburgh Jewish Newspaper Project http://digitalcollections.library.cmu.edu/pjn/index.jsp