Delaware Digital Newspaper Project

FAIN: PJ-230831-15

University of Delaware (Newark, DE 19711-3651)
Gregg A. Silvis (Project Director: January 2015 to August 2018)
Molly Olney-Zide (Project Director: August 2018 to August 2018)
Monica McCormick (Project Director: August 2018 to September 2018)
Molly Olney-Zide (Project Director: September 2018 to September 2018)
Monica McCormick (Project Director: September 2018 to July 2021)
Molly Olney-Zide (Project Director: July 2021 to July 2021)
Monica McCormick (Project Director: July 2021 to August 2021)
Molly Olney-Zide (Project Director: August 2021 to July 2023)
Molly Olney-Zide (Co Project Director: May 2021 to July 2021)

Funding details:
Original grant (2015) $121,907.00
Supplement (2017) $253,869.00
Supplement (2019) $250,427.00
Supplement (2023) ($7,816.67)

The digitization of approximately 100,000 pages of historic Delaware newspapers published between 1836 and 1922 as part of the state's participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

The University of Delaware Library, Museums & Press proposes digitizing 100,000 pages of three historically significant Delaware newspaper titles: Middletown Transcript (1923-1963), Labor Herald (1940-1955), and Every Evening, Wilmington Daily Commercial (1904-1920). The master negative microfilm reels for the first two titles are held within the University of Delaware's University Archives and Records Management unit, and duplicates of the master negatives of Every Evening, Wilmington Daily Commercial were purchased from ProQuest. Preliminary copyright research supports the public domain status of all post-1923 content.

Associated Products

Delaware Digital Newspaper Project News (Blog Post)
Title: Delaware Digital Newspaper Project News
Author: David Cardillo
Author: Molly Olney-Zide
Abstract: Content is added on a monthly basis to the Delaware Digital Newspaper Project website and blog: https://library.udel.edu/ddnp/news/
Date: 11/30/2021
Primary URL: https://library.udel.edu/ddnp/
Primary URL Description: The primary URL is for the main website of the project. This website is where all project updates are made and where the project blog lives.
Secondary URL: https://library.udel.edu/ddnp/news/
Secondary URL Description: The secondary URL is the direct link to the project blog.
Blog Title: The Delaware Digital Newspaper Project News
Website: Delaware Digital Newspaper Project News

A Celebration of Community: School Hill and New London Road (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: A Celebration of Community: School Hill and New London Road
Abstract: Molly Olney-Zide facilitated a virtual event entitled “A Celebration of Community: School Hill and New London Road” on September 3, 2021. This event featured a talk by DDNP advisory board member, Syl Woolford, and focused on celebrating African American history in Delaware. Mr. Woolford made significant use of Delaware newspapers in Chronicling America in his talk and mentioned using Chronicling America in his research to the 90 attendees of the event.
Author: Molly Olney-Zide
Author: Syl Woolford
Date: 9/3/2021
Location: Virtual
Primary URL: https://library.artstor.org/public/31526754
Primary URL Description: The primary URL is a link to a recording of the full program. Syl Woolford's talk is the second presentation, "The Peter Spencer Churches of Newark".

"Read all about it! Outreach for Digital Collections with the National Digital Newspaper Program" (MARAC Conference) (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: "Read all about it! Outreach for Digital Collections with the National Digital Newspaper Program" (MARAC Conference)
Abstract: Learn about a variety of outreach initiatives featuring digitized newspapers as panelists from state awardees of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) share about their work to highlight digital collections. The National Endowment for the Humanities and Library of Congress developed NDNP for state partners to digitize historic newspapers from across the country and make them freely accessible in the Chronicling America (chroniclingamerica.loc.gov) newspaper database, which now has over 19 million digitized pages. This session brings together partners from Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Washington, D.C. and West Virginia each presenting on a unique outreach project for their digital newspaper collection. Hear about social media campaigns, online exhibits, K-12 history day resources, volunteer research and transcription events, and more that can be modeled to feature your own institution’s digital and analog collections.
Author: Theresa Hessey, Pam McClanahan
Date: 10/20/2022
Location: College Park, MD

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