1. Archivist’s Report
February 9, 2018

2. Who am I? Art History, Concordia University
MLIS (Archives), McGill University, 2014
Volunteer at the Glasgow School of Art –
cataloguing, genealogy and biography
Hired at AMBA in May 2018
Thank you for the warm welcome!

3. Highlights of 2018 Changeover New Acquisitions Projects Grant writing
Alligator Tug ‘Amable du Fonds’, Charles Macnamara

4. How to Access the Digitized Newspaper Collection

5. Go to our homepage: www. adarchives
Go to our homepage: and click through to the Search page.

6. From the search page, you have two options:
Search the entire collection, including the newspapers
Browse the
Option 2
Browse the newspaper collection by paper and issue date.

7. Option 1: Search the entire collection, including the newspapers:
This option allows you to find specific words within issues of the newspapers.
Search term: ‘Braeside’
This gets lots of other results too, so you’ll want to narrow it down to the newspapers.

8. Click ‘AMBA Newspaper Collection, and what you’ll get is every newspaper that mentions the word ‘Braeside’, and its location within the text.

9. ‘More Detail’ will get you to the PDF of the newspaper issue.

10. Please be patient, sometimes loading takes a few minutes!
You can now download the PDF to your computer, or ‘read’ the PDF on your browser. It will automatically highlight the word you’ve been looking for in the text.
Please be patient, sometimes loading takes a few minutes!

11. In ‘Read PDF’: ‘Braeside’ is highlighted
In ‘Read PDF’: ‘Braeside’ is highlighted. If you download the PDF, you can click on the magnifying glass icon in the upper left corner and search within the document.

12. Option 2: Browse issues by paper name and date
Back at the search page! Head to the Quick Access section.

13. Click on the ‘Digitized Newspaper Collection to 1937’…

14. … Which takes you to the newspaper finding aid page
… Which takes you to the newspaper finding aid page! Scroll down to find newspaper titles.

15. Click on one of the papers to get a list of issues by date
Click on one of the papers to get a list of issues by date. Click on one of the issues…

16. And here we are at the individual issue’s page
And here we are at the individual issue’s page. Like before, you can read or download the searchable PDF.

17. How to Access the Birth, Marriage and Death Abstracts (BMDs)
Taken from indexes compiled by volunteers from the digitized newspapers
Made into individual, searchable online records
Connected to the newspaper issue they originated from

18. Same as for the newspapers, start on the search page:

19. Similarly, you have two options:
Sea
Option 1: Search any name you would like to find a record for.
Browse the
Option 2: Browse and search from the BMD finding aid page.

20. Option 1: Search entire catalog, and narrow results to BMDs.

21. Click to newspaper link to see the original notice.

22. Search the page to find the original notice!

23. Option 2: Back on the search page, under ‘Quick Access’, click on the link to Birth, Marriage and Death abstracts

24. You can search the name you’re looking for…

25. …or browse all entries at the same time.

26. If you scroll down, you can look at them in the original index, in PDF format:

27. PDF page example:

28. E-mail: adarchives@hotmail.com
Thank you!
Happy Searching!
Contact me if you’d like a copy of this guide, or if you run into any issues.
Emma Carey, Archivist
Tel: