Dear Screen-L: I am pleased to announce the launch of the Media History Digital Library's new website. On the site you, you will find access to over 200,000 digitized pages of public domain media industry trade papers and fan magazines, including Moving Picture World (1912-1918), Film Daily (1918-1936), Photoplay (1917-1940), Radio Broadcast (1922-1930), and much more. Here is the link: http://mediahistoryproject.org/ The project is supported by owners of materials who loan them for scanning, and donors who contribute funds to cover the cost of scanning. Our sincere thanks go to the owners, donors, and Rick Prelinger, who has allowed us to incorporate scanned material from his collection into our project. David Pierce is the founder and director of the MHDL. I am the digitization coordinator and collaborated with Wendy Hagenmaier (University of Texas Information School) on building the website. We're currently digitizing more materials and developing an Advanced Search function that will allow you to perform customizable searches across multiple publications, volumes, and years. In the meantime, you can perform searches within individual volumes (which span anywhere from 3 months to 2 years, depending on the publication). We hope you will use the Library, recommend it to your colleagues and students, and let us know how we can improve the experience. Also, please let us know what media journals will be most useful for your own research to have digitized (non-English language suggestions are welcome). We still have a long way to go in making the public domain accessible and building digital resources that will enable scholars to ask new questions and write new histories. But, I hope you will agree, this is a good step forward! Sincerely, Eric Hoyt -- Eric Hoyt Ph.D. Candidate, Division of Critical Studies, School of Cinematic Arts University of Southern California Digitization Coordinator, Media History Digital Library http://mediahistoryproject.org/ ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org