What Happens on a Typical Day at Newman Portal?
Here's a look behind the scenes on Thursday, October 4:

Len Augsburger, Newman Portal project coordinator at Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), worked with Simcha Kuritzky of the Maryland State Numismatic Associationto integrate electronic copies of their publication, The Maryland Numismatist, into NNP. Len also worked with author George Cuhaj on Cuhaj's monograph, PennsylvaniaRailroad Medal for Heroic Service. In between, Len processed portions of Eric P. Newman's electronic correspondence covering the period 2006-2017.

Nicole Fry, WUSTL library technical assistant, continued scanning a 30-year run of Seaby's Coin and Medal Bulletin, a British publication that has been opened withthe kind permission of Classical Numismatic Group, the successor firm of Seaby's.

Shannon Davis, WUSTL digitization manager, worked with a vendor on the acquisition of a third scanning machine for our St. Louis scanning lab at Washington University.

At the American Numismatic Society (ANS), Internet Archive scanner Lara Jacobs continues scanning the S.H. & H. Chapman letterpress copy books, representing correspondence ofthis important Philadelphia firm from 1883 to 1890. The ANS provides space for Newman Portal equipment, in addition to making library material available for scanning. Meanwhile,contractor John Graffeo is processing scans from his recent visit to the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration in Philadelphia.

Our numismatic community liaison, Wayne Homren, continues to work with a number of potential NNP partners. At any time, discussions with approximately a dozen possiblecontributors are underway, and these will be announced in due course as they are concluded.

Finally, the software programming team, led by John Feigenbaum at Collectibles Technology Company, delivered a new "power search" capability, which, while a bit morecomplex, gives users greater capability to form more targeted search queries (try it out here).

To visit the Newman Portal, see:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/