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Provincetown Online -- The Advocate Live!

is the result of an on-going project to re-microfilm, digitize and index the Library's issues of the Provincetown Advocate and make them available on the Internet. It is also a result of a collaboration between the Library Staff, the Publisher and Staff of the Provincetown Banner, Town Volunteers and the Town of Provincetown's MIS Department.

Scope: The years 1918, 1931-1934 and 1936-1967 are currently available. Very soon, before 1918 will also be loaded.

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Acknowledgements: The Library Staff would like to especially thank the Provincetown Banner for their encouragement, trust and hospitality. Many times, the Banner's pristine copies of the Advocate were loaned for microfilming as the Library's copies were badly tattered. In addition, Volunteer Dick Caouette and Intern Agnes Imecs were instrumental in the early stages of determining how best to prepare the newspapers for scanning. Finally, Ellen McQuade of New England Micrographics kept the project on track as she worked with Library Staff to provide newly

About Olive Software and Other Technical Information: Staff from the OCLC Preservation Service Center scanned the microfilm to create tiff files and prepared those files for Olive Distillation. (Olive Software is the user inferface for the Advocate files). Preparation included, manual cropping, deskew, and padding to meet Olive requirements. After that, the TIFF files were FTPed to the Staff at Olive Software who them completed the metadata collection, distillation,and segmentation processes. The DVDs containing the TIFF files and the Olive Software were then loaded onto the Library's Server by MIS Coordinator Beau Jackett.

This Project has been made possible by a Library Services and Technology Act grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners

Mon & Fri 10-5

Sat 10-2

Tues & Thurs Noon-8

Sunday 1-5

Wed 10-8