Keeping up with Trove newspapers

In order to keep abreast of newly digitised newspapers on Trove, I use a feed reader to deliver the latest titles. One can select from a variety of RSS feeds to keep up to date. Two popular feed readers that can be used on both computers and mobile devices are Feedly and Inoreader.

Videos on how to use feed readers

• How to start using Feedly by Richard Byrne from Free tech for teachers.
• Introduction to Inoreader
• Using Inoreader to follow blogs by Jill Ball

Add your choice from these feeds to your favourite reader to keep up to date.

• Newly added titles - the feed link is http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/rss/titles
• Newly added issues for any title - the feed link is http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/rss/issues

If you click on these links on a mobile device you will need to choose to open in a feed reader or news app. 

Individual states

Feeds are also available for individual states if you are particularly interested in a local area. Recent new additions to South Australian newspapers that have come to my notice through Feedly since the upgrade to Trove 7 in February include:

Frearson's Monthly Illustrated Adelaide News (SA : 1880 - 1884) added on 2016-04-22
An issue of this paper has been added for the very first time. Digitised issues are currently available for the following dates. More issues will be available soon. From 1880-10-01 to 1880-12-31

Harp and Southern Cross (Adelaide, SA : 1873 - 1875) added on 2016-04-21
An issue of this paper has been added for the very first time. Digitised issues are currently available for the following dates. More issues will be available soon.From 1873-12-05 to 1873-12-26

The Irish Harp and Farmers' Herald (Adelaide, SA : 1869 - 1873) added on 2016-04-20
An issue of this paper has been added for the very first time. Digitised issues are currently available for the following dates. More issues will be available soon.From 1871-01-07 to 1871-12-30

The Illustrated Adelaide News (SA : 1875 - 1880) added on 2016-04-20
An issue of this paper has been added for the very first time. Digitised issues are currently available for the following dates. More issues will be available soon.From 1877-01-01 to 1877-12-31

The Pictorial Australian (Adelaide, SA : 1885 - 1895) added on 2016-04-20
An issue of this paper has been added for the very first time. Digitised issues are currently available for the following dates. More issues will be available soon.From 1891-01-01 to 1891-12-31

Eyre's Peninsula Tribune (Cowell, SA : 1910 - 1950) added on 2016-03-07
An issue of this paper has been added for the very first time. Digitised issues are currently available for the following dates. More issues will be available soon.From 1911-03-10 to 1912-12-20

The Areas' Express (Booyoolee, SA : 1877 - 1948) added on 2016-02-26
An issue of this paper has been added for the very first time. Digitised issues are currently available for the following dates. More issues will be available soon.From 1919-01-10 to 1920-12-31

Thanks to the Trove team at the NLA for providing this valuable service.

Here's a snippet from The Irish Harp and Farmer's Herald of 1871 for #TroveTuesday, enjoy!

This post first appeared on http://librarycurrants.blogspot.com.au/

Apps in April A-Z challenge summary

Here’s a summary of the posts written along with the apps I covered in the A-Z challenge. Hopefully, you may find a useful app from these quick overviews. Thanks to all those who visited and commented along the way.

Here’s my Pinterest board on the A-Z of apps in April.

Follow Carmel's board Apps A-Z on Pinterest.

If you don’t use Pinterest here’s the list alphabetically.

• Apparently apps: Adobe - Acrobat, Draw, Photoshop express, Adobe Post, Adobe Voice and Adobe Slate
• Books and a box: Box, British Library and Book Creator
• Create and customise: Canva, Camscanner and Chrome
• Do your data a favour: Dropbox, Drive and Docs
• Explain and remember: Explain Everything and Evernote
• Feeding from the frenzy: Feedly, Flickr and Flipboard
• A Gaggle of goodies: Google, 13 apps
• Handy Tools: Haiku Deck, Handy tools and Heart Rate
• Instant and interesting: Instagram and Inside History
• Just Journals and Junk: Journeys toolbox, Tripit and Evernote
• Keeping and Kindling: Kindle, Keep and Swiftkey Keyboard
• Love a Library: LibraryThing, Borrow Box, OneClick digital and Wheelers
• Map a museum: Australian Museum Sydney, Powerhouse Museum Sydney, Museum Victoria Melbourne
• Notes on the News: Notegraphy and News
• Over and over: Overdrive and Over
• Poses and pins in the pocket: Photofunia, Pixlr, Pocket and Pinterest
• Quick response: QR codes i-nigma, Outback Queensland Traveller’s guide, This is Queensland
• Read and remember: Readability, Readly and Remembering Them
• Snap and substitute: Snapseed, Superimpose and Sandisk Connect Wireless Flashdrive
• Tune in and type: TuneInRadio, TED talks and TypeDrawing
• Update and upgrade: App stores and settings
• Vocal variations: Using speech recognition and voice recording in apps
• Extra, extras: XE currency
• Words of wonder: Word Swag and WolframAlpha
• Yes for your interests: YouTube
• Zero in on the good things: Zinio

To view a select few of the other many bloggers who participated, here's a magazine of 300+ articles from family historians and genealogists.

View my Flipboard Magazine.

This post first appeared on http://librarycurrants.blogspot.com.au/

Oh! Sew Online

All stitched up

There are endless sites for pursuing hobbies online. If sewing is your hobby here are a few tips that may help you refine your searches, and save and organise those found sites.

This presentation was prepared for the 30th April 2016 meeting of the Australian Sewing Guild local neighbourhood group the Guilded Lilies of Tewantin/Noosa. Meetings are held on the last Saturday of the month from 9 am - 3 pm. We share our sewing skills and knowledge and enjoy sewing in the company of friends. 

To my sewing colleagues: to view the slide show again, click/tap on the right facing arrow. To view full screen, click/tap on the 4 arrow expand symbol or on a mobile device just double tap. Enjoy!