1. Saul Rubin and Steve Hunt
Corsair Digitization

2. Corsair Digitization California Digital Newspaper Collection
Using the Corsair Archive
Use of the Corsair in Teaching
Other Local History Resources

3. California Digital Newspaper Collection
CDNC website:
Shared, cross-searchable database of California newspapers
Mostly short runs, mostly 19th century
Online help
About the CDNC
Access the Corsair archive from the Library website:
Corsair is on CDNC
Later issues on Issu:
Current issues here:

4. Examples of Corsair Articles
'Corsair' selected as new name for College paper 'Samojac‘
Students Select 'Santa Monica City College'
Long-Awaited College Campus Becomes Reality
Homecoming Pictorial (1955)
He Brings Touch Of Classical

5. Using Historical Newspapers in Teaching
Why?
Newspapers as primary source materials
Encourages critical thinking
Examine trends, issues and events
Research topics
Famous people that have visited SMC
Technology changes, (1930 article)
Cultural changes
How were historical events covered? (Internment)
What don’t they write about?

6. Using Historical Newspapers in Teaching
Disciplines which might use local history resources
History
Journalism
English
ESL
Political Science
Ethnic Studies
Women’s Studies
Sociology
Psychology

7. Other Local history resources
On the CDNC website:
Los Angeles Herald (Los Angeles, )
Los Angeles Star (Los Angeles, )
On the SMC Library website:
LA Times (Historical, )
LA Times (Current, 1985-)
On the Santa Monica Public Library local history website
Santa Monica Outlook ( )
Photo collections
On the Los Angeles Public Library website
Visual Collections
Research Guides
LA City Databank

8. Corsair Digitization
Questions?

9. Corsair Digitization
Thank you!