AIS Bulletin Archive

[John Jones <jijones@usjoneses.com>]

Last year we embarked on a project, graciously funded by the AIS Foundation, to collect copies of every AIS Bulletin available from the fires issue in 1920 through 2009, and have them scanned and rendered into text in searchable PDF files.

That project, a dream of mine as Electronic Services Chair for as many years as I was driving the development of the online iris registration database, is now complete. At the Spring 2012 Board meeting the AIS Board directed that the archive be made available to AIS Emembers. 

Today I am proud to announce that the file of scanned bulletins is now available via the Emembers page on the AIS website. 

A copy of the archive has also been sent to the AIS Librarian for his use in researching questions posed to him.

Please note that while the conversion to searchable text is good, there are unavoidable mistakes in the character recognition process. The view you see on the pdf page is the scanned picture and extremely readable. When you copy the text you will see the errors resulting from the character recognition problems.

I want to take this opportunity to again thank the AIS Foundation for funding this project.
_____________________________ 
John Jones
Director, American Iris Society
Chair, Electronic Services Committee
Co-Registrar/Recorder


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