Heritage Microfilm Releases "Heritage Microfilm - ACCESS" Blog

Cedar Rapids, Iowa (PRWEB) March 4, 2009--Heritage Microfilm, premier archiving vendor and preservation outfit, has launched a major upgrade to their website, introducing "Heritage Microfilm - ACCESS" blog linking their ACCESS NewspaperARCHIVE digital product with industry news, and discussions of digital archiving.

The new blog, written and moderated by Jamie Leon and Matt Kosman, is the first venture by Heritage Microfilm into the blogosphere. "I'm happy to have this opportunity to speak on a more personal level to anyone interested in digital archiving" said Jamie Leon, ACCESS Product Specialist for Heritage Microfilm. "It's nice to give our visitors and customers a resource that allows them to enter into dialogue, to learn and to teach."

The blog can be found at http://access.heritagemicrofilm.com.

Access NewspaperARCHIVE, located at http://access.newspaperarchive.com is a library interface to the popular NewspaperARCHIVE, which contains 95 million digital newspaper pages from 1759 to 2008.

Heritage Microfilm will grow its blog collection in the near future, with plans to add blogs discussing microfilm preservation, the newspaper industry, and digital imaging. The company has also recently launched an international initiative, with the intent of growing its global newspaper content. Interested parties can contact Jamie Leon at jleon (at) newspaperarchive (dot) com.

About Heritage Microfilm

Heritage Microfilm, Inc., of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is a major archival microfilm and digitization company. Heritage Microfilm was founded in 1996 and quickly became one of the premier newspaper preservation vendors in North America. They are currently trusted with the preservation microfilming of more than 600 North American newspaper titles, as well as several international ones. Publishers or librarians interested in more information about Heritage Microfilm can visit http://www.heritagemicrofilm.com.

About NewspaperARCHIVE.com.

In 1999, Heritage Microfilm launched the brand NewspaperARCHIVE.com, the world's largest historical newspaper database online. NewspaperARCHIVE.com contains tens of millions of newspaper pages from 1759 to present, spanning almost 3,000 newspaper titles and 762 cities. Every newspaper in the archive is fully searchable by keyword and date making it easy to quickly explore historical content. Anyone interested in finding more information about Heritage Microfilm and NewspaperARCHIVE.com can visit www.heritagemicrofilm.com or www.newspaperarchive.com.

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