More civics education for adults and students is the remedy for Hoosiers’ disap-pointing knowledge of the First Amendment and pres-ence in the voting booth, say organizers of the Indiana Civic Health Index.

The recent study evaluated who participates in communi-ty activities such as voting and volunteerism and knowledge of rights guaran-teed by the U.S. Constitution.

HSPA Foundation is among the index’s sponsors who will take steps to improve civic involvement among Hoosiers, said Karen T. Braeckel, Foundation director.

Former U.S. Rep. Lee Hamilton and Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Randall Shepard helped

oversee the report. Among its conclusions:

• The state ranked 21st in service club membership – which included school and

religious groups – with a 36.2 percent participation rate. Mean while, 1.3 million

PublisherThe Indiana

Volume 76, Issue 20 • September 29, 2011 Published alternate Thursdays

Historic Recorder digitized

A digitization project of The Indian­apolis Recorder and IUPUI’s University Lib rary has put 106 years of black history online.

Viewers can browse historic copies of the newspaper via the library’s website. The full-text searchable archive of the African-American newspaper is available at ulib.iupui.edu/digitalscholarship/collections.

The free resource makes more than 5,000 issues of the community newspaper – dated from 1899 to 2005 and captured from the microfilm version of the weekly broadsheet – available through the Web.

“We are absolutely excited about this project and really look forward to sharing it with the community,” said Shannon Williams, president and general manager of The Indianapolis Recorder. “Through this revolutionary effort people have access to history literally at their fingertips. It’s amazing!”

HSPA members will receive audits of entities in their areas

HSPA will distribute cop-ies of state Board of Accounts audits to newspapers in coun-ties where audits were con-ducted.

The agency is charged with auditing government units in Indiana. In the past, it issued releases concerning complet-ed audits to media personnel who cover the Statehouse.

“It became clear that many newspapers were missing these potential news stories because they didn’t have a presence in the Statehouse,” said Steve Key, executive director and general counsel for HSPA. “The supervi-

sors with the state Board of Accounts quickly agreed to work with us to get the audits in the hands of report-ers who cover the audited government entities.”

The Board of Accounts is now emailing HSPA copies of completed audits. HSPA, in turn, will email the audits to the editors of newspapers located in the same county as the audited public agency.

When audits turn up dis-crepancies, the reports can be forwarded by the state Board of Accounts to county pros-ecutors, grand juries or the state attorney general.

Pence pushes for shield bill U.S. Rep. Mike Pence

(R-Ind.) has re-introduced legislation designed to protect journalists and the public’s right to know.

H.R. 2932, the Free Flow of Information Act of 2011, would defend the rights of journalists and their use of confidential sources.

The legislation, also called the federal media shield bill, was authored by Pence six years ago

and has passed the House of Representatives in the past.

“As a conservative who believes in limited gov-ernment, I know the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press,” Pence said Sept. 17 during a speech to the National Conference of Editorial Writers Convention in Indianapolis.

“The Free Flow of Infor-mation Act is not about protecting reporters; it is about protecting the pub-lic’s right to know,” he said.

Indiana has one of the

most robust reporter shield laws in the coun-try, but it means noth-ing if a sharp attorney can move the question of sources from a state court into a federal court, said Steve Key, HSPA execu-tive director and general counsel.

“While anonymous sources should be used sparingly, sometimes the confidentiality promised by a newspaper may be the only way that sig-nificant information that impacts a community, our state or our country can

Mike Pence

Former U.S. Rep. Lee Hamilton, director of the Center on Congress, left, and Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Randall Shepard, right, meet with Gov. Mitch Daniels

on Sept. 14 at the Statehouse to discuss the findings of the Indiana Civic Health Index. The study reported that Indiana ranks 48th among states in voter turnout.

Former Indiana first lady Judy O’Bannon, right, talks with Steve Key, HSPA execu-tive director and general counsel, left, and Karen T. Braeckel, HSPA Foundation director, Sept. 14 during a reception in honor of the Indiana Civic Health Index.

PHOTO BY CENTER ON CONGRESS AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY

See Shield, Page 3

See Recorder, Page 4

By The Indianapolis Recorder

INDIANA CIVIC HEALTH INDEX

The Indianapolis Recorder, June 8, 1968

Next steps for civic health: more information, education

See Civics, Page 2

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HSPA staffSteve Key, executive director and general counsel

skey@hspa.com • (317) 624-4427

Karen T. Braeckel, HSPA Foundation directorkbraeckel@hspa.com • (317) 624-4426

Pamela Lego, MAP advertising directorplego@hspa.com • (812) 350-7711

Milissa Tuley, communications specialistmtuley@hspa.com • (317) 624-4430

Yvonne Yeadon, office manageryyeadon@hspa.com • (317) 624-4433

Shawn Goldsby, advertising coordinatorsgoldsby@hspa.com • (317) 803-4772

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Subscriptions $25 per year. Ad rates furnished upon request.

HSPA calendarSept. 30 Advertising Conference with INAEA, Ball State University, Muncie

Fall Circulation Conference with ICEA

Oct. 6-7 HSPA & HSPA Foundation joint board meeting, Nashville, Ind.

Dec. 3 Newsroom Seminar & Better Newspaper Contest Awards Gala, Indianapolis Marriott North

Dec. 9 HSPA board meeting, Indianapolis

Feb. 4 APME-HSPA Foundation Job Fair

Feb. 16-17 Annual Meetings & Government Conference, Indianapolis Marriott Downtown

Feb. 24 Pulliam internship application deadline for newspapers and students

March 1 Pulliam intern selection committee meeting

Member notices

Designer – Key design position as part of an award-winning design team in Marion, Ind. Minimum requirements: Bachelor’s degree in journalism or related subject; design experience with InDesign and Photoshop required. Experi-ence in print and digital platforms preferred. Send resume to dpenticuff@chronicle-tribune.com. (1)

Editor – Need strong journalist looking to step up to the editor position for a six-day-a-week com-munity newspaper. Position is responsible for working with peo-ple in the community, planning local content, copy editing and some reporting. A minimum of three years experience as a jour-nalist covering news is required. Send resume and cover letter to

dpenticuff@chronicle-tribune.com. (1)

Education reporter – The Times (Frankfort, Ind.) has an immediate opening for a versatile education reporter. Must be an energetic, team-oriented multi-tasker who not only writes well but also shoots compelling photos using digital cameras. Bachelor’s degree in jour-nalism, mass communications or related field required. Must be profi-cient in AP style and absolutely accurate in story content. Web experience helpful. Send cover let-ter, resume and three clips to dpenticuff@chronicle-tribune.com. (1)

Education reporter – Award-winning daily newspaper in north central Indiana is looking for a reporter to cover education. We are seeking a reporter who under-

stands the structure of the educa-tion system in Indiana. Position will also work on general assignment stories; some weekend work is expected. Requirements: Bach-elor’s degree in journalism or relat-ed field. Previous experience cov-ering education preferred. Send resume to dpenticuff@chronicle- tribune.com. (1)

Reporter – Full-time reporter want-ed at The Jackson County Banner (Brownstown). Estab lished in 1869, The Banner has long been a source of local news and happen-ings in Jackson County. The suc-cessful candidate may be a recent college grad with experience on a school paper or a seasoned report-er looking for an opportunity to become an editor. Send resume to rwilliams@cmgms.com. (2)

Send notices to mtuley@hspa.com.

Employees sought

HSPA Board of DirectorsHSPA Officers

President: Tim Timmons, The Paper of Montgomery County (Crawfordsville), The Times (Noblesville)Vice President: Greg Morris, IBJ Corp.

Secretary: Robyn McCloskey, Pharos-Tribune (Logansport), Kokomo Tribune

Treasurer: Jon O’Bannon, The Corydon Democrat

HSPA Board Members

Jim Kroemer, Goshen NewsRandy List, Rust Communications

Bill Masterson Jr., The Times of Northwest Indiana (Munster)Tina West, The Courier-Times (New Castle)

Dailies

NondailiesJohn Haley, Pulaski County Journal (Winamac)

Don Hurd, Benton Review (Fowler)Kathy Tretter, Dubois-Spencer County Publishing Co. Inc.

Shannon Williams, Indianapolis Recorder

HSPA Foundation Board of DirectorsHSPA Foundation Officers

President: Henry Bird, The Herald Bulletin (Anderson)Vice President: John Rumbach, The Herald (Jasper)

Secretary: Pat Lanman, Vevay Newspapers Inc.Treasurer: Jeff Rogers, Home News Enterprises

HSPA Foundation Board of DirectorsLinda Chandler, Ripley PublishingCurt Jacobs, The Madison Courier

Barbara King, North Vernon Plain Dealer & SunKevin Lashbrook, Community Media Group

Mayer Maloney, Hoosier Times Inc.Jack Pate, Evansville Courier & PressNeal Ronquist, Paxton Media Group

Gary Suisman, Journal and Courier (Lafayette)

It’s time to file, publish and fax your U.S. Pos tal Service State ment of Ownership.

File the statement with the U.S. Postal Ser vice: The deadline for filing your Period icals Class Statement of Ownership with the Pos-tal Service is Oct. 1. Get the form at your local post office or at www.usps.com. Enter

“statement of ownership” in the search field and down-load Form 3526.

Publish the statement in your paper: The dead-line for publishing your notice depends on the fre-quency of publication:

• For dailies and newspa-pers published two or more times a week, the deadline is Oct. 10.

• For weeklies, the dead-line is Oct. 31.

Fax the statement to HSPA: We’ll use the infor-mation to verify your circu-lation for membership and contest eligibility. The fax number is (317) 624-4428.

For more information con­tact Steve Key at skey@ hspa.com or (317) 624­4427.

Send Statement of Ownership to Postal Service by Oct. 1

Hoosiers – or 26.1 percent – donated time to civic or charitable causes, or 32nd in the nation.

• Hoosiers get together with their families for meals, a habit researchers think tends to boost commu-nity involvement. Indiana ranked 17th nationally, with 90.1 percent of resi-dents reporting meals with families at least a few times a week.

• Indiana ranked 48th among states in voter turn-out, with a rate of 39.4 per-cent. The national average was 45.5 percent. The state ranked 43rd nationally in the proportion of citizens registered to vote, at 61.2 percent.

• When asked to name the freedoms covered in the First Amendment, 62 percent of Americans could name the freedom of speech, 19 percent the freedom of religion, 17 percent the freedom of press, 14 percent the right to assemble and 3 percent the right to petition. Thirty percent of Americans could not list any of the rights.

HSPA Foundation plans to partner with others on civics education, said Henry Bird, senior vice president of the Capital Division of Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. and president

of the Foundation board of directors.

“Our core values are very much in place, but obviously we need to do a better job at getting people to the polls and making them feel more responsible about their civic duty,” Bird said. “Related to that is an absolute need to improve civics education in high school and earlier so Hoosiers really under-stand the Constitution and the importance of all of its amendments.”

The next steps for using the index include dialogue with the Indiana General Assembly on what actions can be taken to improve civic engagement and with the Indiana Department of Education to improve civics curriculum, Braeckel said.

The index finding that only 17 percent of Ameri-cans can name the freedom of the press as one of the

rights guaranteed by the First Amendment raises serious concerns, Braeckel said.

“A democracy needs an informed citizenry to flour-ish, and one of its most pre-cious rights allows a mar-ketplace of ideas without government interference,” she said. “Yet our citizens don’t seem to understand that concept.”

Representatives from the Indiana Bar Foundation will present the Civic Health Index around the state, said Andrew K. Homan, civic education program manager for the foundation. Sched-uled dates include Sept. 30 in South Bend, Oct. 7 in Evansville and Oct. 27 in Gary.

Other sponsors of the index are the National Conference on Citizenship and Indiana University Northwest.

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Dec. 3, 2011 • Indianapolis

CivicsContinued from Page 1

American Revolution re-enactors sample hors d’oeuvres Sept. 14 in Indianapolis during a reception before the announcement of the Indiana Civic Health Index.

The toughest challenge faced by most clas-sified supervisors is

setting priorities correctly. Most clas sified

super visors get little or no training in time manage ment.

They take the reins of the new position and are bombarded with “zillions” of things that must be done right away.

Most of these issues involve human resources, computer system, accounting, production or other processes that have little or nothing to do with getting someone to purchase an ad.

New supervisors are anxious to make a good impression, so they try to get all of those things done. Somehow, the business of creating ways to grow revenue gets lost in the act of managing all the processes.

The problem is that classified supervisors get most of their day-to-day feedback based on how well all the processes are managed rather than how much advertising is sold.

Managers get into the poor habit of focusing primarily on the processes.

All too often, the concept of using ingenuity to maximize revenues either takes a back seat or is lost completely.

OK, classified supervisors and managers, here’s the deal: “Your number one priority is to grow revenue!”

Everything and anything else that isn’t directly

focused on growing revenue hurts your sales perform-ance.

The other departments you work with are primarily interested on accomplishing their individual primary objectives.

They will siphon off as much of your valuable sales time as you allow them to take. Their objectives are met, which makes them look good.

Your sales don’t grow, and may even dip, and upper management wonders if you have the right stuff.

You simply cannot let these objectives from other departments keep you from achieving your department’s primary goal of growing sales revenues.

Does this mean that classified doesn’t have to do those “other” tasks?

For most, of course you still have to do them.

Be willing to work with those other departments, just not under them.

The question is the priority. If something is missed because you are short on time, it has to be one of these other activities and never any of your department’s sales activity.

There is a steady supply of people who will do clerical and production duties for less money than most salespeople make.

Good salespeople are the hardest employees for any business to find. It just doesn’t make sense to take away from sales time for clerical and production tasks.

Keep your sales staff selling.

If you have someone in your department that just can’t seem to grasp the concept that their job is sales, give that person all the non-sales duties so the salespeople can spend time selling more ads.

As a classified supervisor, you must accomplish your primary goal of maximizing revenue generation every day or else you have failed.

This is true no matter what else you may have accomplished that day.

This means that sales-people always efficiently make the most out of every inbound call.

They make their renewal callbacks every day, even when things are really busy.

Clear plans, objectives and schedules for maximizing outbound calling for special pages, promotions and dir-ectories must be implemented.

In addition to outbound calling for special items, the department must spend time staying in touch with existing advertisers who haven’t run recently.

It doesn’t do much good to add new customers if there is a steady stream of them falling away.

There are many priorities in the classified department, but any that get ahead of selling more advertising are simply out of order.

Richard Clark’s Classified Development program includes rate structuring and sales training at www. classifieddevelopment.com.

September 29, 2011 Page 3

News in brief

Send promotions, announcements, staff changes and other corporate news to mtuley@hspa.com.

Guest Voice

By Richard Clark

Classified priority: revenue

Intern will work as reporter

Newspaper group revamps site

Andrew Kidd has joined The Commercial Review (Portland) as a reporting intern for the fall semester.

Kidd, 22, will receive his bachelor’s degree in journalism from Ball State University in

December. While at Ball State, Kidd has contrib-uted to The Daily News, the student-run campus newspaper.

Kidd replaces former summer intern Sharon Hernandez, also from Ball State.

Webinar focuses on advertisingIs your staff famil-

iar with how Patch, Groupon, Yellow Pages, Facebook, Reach Local, DataSphere, Pandora and Google are going after local ad dollars?

In an upcoming webinar, Internet rev-enue specialist Mel Taylor will explore the strengths and limita-tions of these new com-petitors and share spe-cific instructions on how newspapers can effec-tively compete.

Online Media Cam-

pus will present Under-standing the New Local Online Com pet itors from 2-3 p.m. EDT Friday, Oct. 7.

The only equip-ment needed is a Web-connected computer and a phone.

Registration is $35. (Group discounts are available.) The dead-line to sign up is Oct. 4. Registrations submitted after that date are sub-ject to a $10 late fee.

To register, visit onlinemediacampus.com.

FortWayne.com, one of Fort Wayne Newspapers’ websites, has undergone renovations to highlight the company’s new micro statement for the site: Find it here. Take it with you.

The community news website, established in 1996, is operated by the parent company of Fort Wayne papers the News­Sentinel and The Journal Gazette.

“I believe our users will most certainly find the new FortWayne.com more user-friendly and

interactive than ever before,” said Michael Christ man, president and chief executive offi-cer of Fort Wayne News-papers. “From local news to things to do on your weekend, the new site offers even more content and information than ever before.”

Users will see the “Featured Five,” an area highlighting the biggest news and events in the area. The site also has a “Things to Do” section featuring a calendar of events.

Advertising chief sees calm ahead in ad spendingReuters reported Sept. 14 about factors that may (or may not) create fear in the advertis-ing market. Below are highlights of the article as reported by Reuters. Read the full story at reuters.com; search under “advertising chief sees calm.”► Advertising stabilized over the past 18 months after budget cuts starting in late 2007 and culminating in 2009, when U.S. ad spending dropped by 16 percent to $163 billion.► Now, however, there are worries that the ad market could be headed for another major pullback in 2012, thanks to mounting macro-economic woes.

► Universal McCann Chief Executive Jacki Kelley said advertising budgets can with-stand mounting economic worries and are not destined to experience the deep cuts that marked the 2007-09 recession.

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be brought to the light of day,” Key said. “The lack of a federal shield law serves to keep vital information closed to the public’s eyes.”

Compelling reporters to testify, and in particular compelling them to reveal

the identity of confidential sources, is a detriment to public interest, Pence said.

“Without the promise of confidentiality, many important conduits of infor-mation about our govern-ment will be shut down,” he said. “The dissemination of information by the media to the public on matters rang-ing from the operation of

our government to events in our local communities is invaluable to the operation of our democracy.”

Pence noted that the Free Flow of Information Act passed the House in October 2007 by a wide bipartisan majority of 398-21, and it passed the House again in March 2009 by voice vote.

ShieldContinued from Page 1

Ad director takes publisher jobDave Hedge is the new

publisher and chief reve-nue officer for the Abilene Reporter­News (Abilene, Texas).

Hedge, 48, had been direc-tor of advertising at the

Evansville Courier & Press.

Both newspapers are owned and operated by Cincinnati-based The E.W. Scripps Co.

He replaces Kim Nussbaum, who left the Abilene Reporter­News last month to become publisher of The Wichita Eagle newspaper in Kansas.

Dave Hedge

Sports reporter gets promotionDylan Malone has

been named sports editor of the De ­catur Daily Demo crat.

Malone had been covering South Adams football for the news-paper prior to his promo-tion.

Malone is a graduate of Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne with a bachelor’s degree in communication in media and a minor in creative writing.

Malone replaces Jim Hop kins, who retired after a recent heart attack.

Malone and his wife, Ashley, reside in Fort Wayne.

Dylan Malone

The sky is not falling.HSPA’s good friend,

publishing guru and speaker Kevin Slimp, recently emailed more than 50 publishers across the country. He asked them two simple questions:

Has your newspaper died yet?

What date are you target-ing for its death?

Within 18 hours he got replies from 40 publishers, and the responses only serve to support my recent column that contended newspapers are not going to die because the information they collect and present to readers is too valuable.

“Every single publisher who mentioned finances indicated that their finances

were strong this year,” Slimp wrote. “A few indi-cated record circulation and profits, and none foresee ceasing print anytime with-in the next 20 years or so.”

While the sample is not statistically large, I don’t believe the outcome would be different if he’d talked to 100 or 200 newspaper pub-lishers.

Every Indiana publisher I’ve talked to this year has indicated that 2011 is better than 2010 when it comes to the bottom line.

Slimp plans to sponsor a larger survey in the next few months. He will use the results as part of his presen-tations at newspaper-related events next year.

Based on his simple sur-

vey, Slimp reports the fol-lowing conclusions:

• Profits at large metros are down, but most are not losing money. Their circu-lation is down, but those newspapers are not plan-ning to close.

“Sure a few have closed in two-paper cities, but let’s see how many close in 2011 and 2012,” Slimp said.

• At smaller papers (week-lies, small dailies and com-munity newspapers), profits

are up this year.“Most seem to be hav-

ing a very good year,” said Slimp, a favorite speaker at HSPA events. “They’re hir-ing again. Their page num-bers are increasing. In some cases, circulation is back on the rise.”

The newspaper indus-try’s situation should only get better if the economy shakes off its current dol-drums, but that doesn’t mean newspaper staffs should relax.

Advertising staffs must overcome clients’ current infatuation with social media.

We need to remind retail-ers that Hoosiers still turn to newspapers when they are ready to buy something

– especially big-ticket items – to determine who is hav-ing a sale on the product they seek.

Newsroom staffs must continue to develop the best ways to deliver news – uti-lizing print, Web and mobile phone apps.

Keep in mind that experts say more than half of adults will have smartphones by next year.

If the newspaper industry does its homework, we’ll continue to give our com-munities the news they need to know and our advertisers the intelligent buyers they want.

Steve Key is executive director and general counsel for HSPA.

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Key Points

By Steve Key

Unofficial survey offers positive reports

These questions came from the Connersville News­Examiner, the New Palestine Press, The News and Tribune (New Albany) and The Rochester Sentinel:

The school super­intendent says our education reporter can’t come to area schools without per­

mission. The superintendent also

says our photographer can’t take photos in the classroom without obtaining parental permission first, but only when we’ve suggested a story; it’s not needed if the school invites us into a class­room.

The school system already has an opt­out photo policy to give concerned parents an opportunity to avoid having their children contacted or photographed by the media. Any advice?

With the opt-out policy in place, there’s no reason to require additional

parental permission for you to take photos or talk to a student in a classroom.

The superintendent obvi-ously is adding barriers to your ability to do stories that you want.

There is a basis for prin-cipals to control access to their buildings – for safety and to avoid disruption of classrooms – but it appears this is more of a control issue for the superintendent who doesn’t want the reporter asking questions.

The superintendent answers to the school board, so I suggest the school

board president needs to be informed of the situation to hopefully bring the situation under control.

If the school board decides to support the superinten-dent in this campaign to control your news coverage, then I suggest a column by the editor or an editorial that lets the community know that the school board and superintendent are try-ing to control what informa-tion is made available to the public.

Let public pressure help persuade officials to do what’s right.

A local super­intendent has a restraining order against a parent because of threats

made against him. I have been informed of

the order from the superin­tendent of schools and by the parent.

The parent has written a letter to the editor making comments about the super­intendent and wants us to print it. If I assist the parent in addressing the superinten­dent through the paper am I breaking the law?

I don’t think the newspaper will vio-late a restraining order if you run a

letter to the editor. The same might not hold

for the letter writer who is under the court order, but I’d have to read the restraining order to say whether publishing the let-ter would get that person into trouble.

A judge would run into

some serious prior restraint issues under the First Amendment if he or she attempted to prohibit the publication of letters to the editor.

Are Urban Enter prise Zone Association board meetings open to the public? There’s

one that involves a financial issue, and I’m trying to deter­mine if I can attend it.

I believe that Urban Enterprise Zones are estab-lished by state

law. So their boards would be subject to the Open Door Law.

You should be able to attend all of their meetings except for executive sessions of the governing body.

I have a question regarding political disclaimers. Does an ad have to in ­clude the office a

person is running for? For example, “Ad paid for

by committee to elect Shoda Beehler, city clerk­treasurer; Mitsi Hoff, treasurer.” Or can it say, “Ad paid for by committee to elect Shoda Beehler; Mitsi Hoff, trea­surer?”

Your second example is accept-able.

The state statute doesn’t require the office to be identified.

The law requires that the advertisement state it was approved either by the can-didate or candidate’s com-mittee; or, if a third party submits the ad, the dis-claimer must state who paid for the ad and that it either was authorized by a particu-lar candidate or candidate’s committee or that it was not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee.

Contact Steve Key, HSPA executive director and gen­eral counsel, with media law questions at skey@hspa.com or (317) 624­4427.

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Established in 1895, The Recorder is the nation’s third oldest surviving African-American-owned newspaper.

It is believed to be one of the first African-American newspapers – and among a few in the state – to have its historical catalog digi-tized.

The Recorder digitization project is a significant con-tribution to preserving the history and culture of Indianapolis, said Steve Key, HSPA executive director and general coun-sel.

“It gives access to a seg-ment of Indiana society over the last century that the community wouldn’t otherwise have easy access to,” Key said. “It is also a great user-friendly tool for a variety of purposes, whether for genealogy research or academic research.”

Indianapolis Recorder Publisher Emeritus Carolene Mays granted IUPUI University Library copyright permission to create a comprehensive online archive of the Recorder.

Newspapers rarely make their copyright backfiles available, and in most cases papers published after 1923 are not avail-able on the Web, said University Library Dean David Lewis.

“The Recorder was known for its local cover-age of news that was important to the Indianapolis African-American community,” Lewis said.

“Because of the nature of the reporting done by The Recorder and the will-ingness to make the full backfile publicly avail-able, this is a special resource, especially for Indianapolis but well beyond,” Lewis said. “It

will be used by genealo-gists, students and re searchers who are look-ing to learn more about their families, their neigh-borhoods and Indianapolis.”

Within the past decade, IUPUI University Library has partnered with sever-al organizations to pro-duce more than 60 digital collections, including those related to institu-tions of significance in the African-American commu-nity such as Crispus Attucks High School, Flanner House and Ransom Place.

Although The Recorder project is comprehensive, some issues, particularly those published between 1917 and 1925, and from January to April of 1932, are not available.

Local historians are not sure what happened to the editions, but they have invited citizens to help fill in the gaps if they have copies of the lost issues or clips from them.

Until now, the only resource that housed a col-lection of Recorder articles for public use was the Indiana History Center.

“We do not have a full collection of archives in our office, but we frequent-ly receive calls from people with questions about past articles,” Williams said. “Now they have a conve-nient resource that they can use at any time.”

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