Dear CHRONAM-USERS, The Library of Congress has released an update to the Chronicling America website that includes some long-awaited changes to both the operating environment, data changes, and some minor changes to functionality. Software and Data Updates: * Deployed Chronicling America software and underlying data to Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud-based environment * Updated web page caching schedule to allow exposure to new data additions more regularly * Updated hit highlighting functionality on thumbnails and page images to improve accuracy of search retrieval * Updated batch names to no longer include "batch_" prefix in user interface displays * Updated records in US Newspaper Directory (Sept 2018) * Added new NDNP essays and batch content * Updated all bulk OCR downloads to fix truncated batches * Added functionality to the bulk OCR extraction process that will report its success or failure events at http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/events/ * Updated LC logo Minor Bug Fixes: * Updated character encoding causing display problems with diacritics and special characters in essays * Fixed bug causing date range picker in advanced search form to display incorrect date options * Fixed bug in OCR bulk download extraction script Please let us know if you have any questions or note any problems with the site. (Look out for a follow-up email with more detailed information related specifically to the bulk OCR downloads.) Best, Nathan Nathan Yarasavage Digital Projects Specialist National Digital Newspaper Program Library of Congress