Arizona Digital Newspaper Project, Phase Four

FAIN: PJ-256058-17

Arizona State Library, Archives & Public Records (Phoenix, AZ 85007-2819)
Jennifer Shaffer Merry (Project Director: January 2017 to August 2017)
Peter Grant (Project Director: August 2017 to October 2017)
Sativa Peterson (Project Director: October 2017 to June 2022)

Digitization of 100,000 pages of Arizona newspapers, published between 1859 and 1963, as part of the state's continuing participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

The Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records (SLAPR) will direct a statewide initiative for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), which is designed and implemented in collaboration with the Library of Congress (LC). Awarded previous grants from the NEH's National Digital Newspaper Program, SLAPR will continue to digitize and make available to LC Arizona newspaper titles for the Chronicling America website, as well as the Arizona Digital Newspaper Program (ADNP) and the University of Arizona Libraries’ (UAL) Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press websites. The newspapers were selected to include communities omitted or under-represented during previous cycles, such as Spanish language newspapers, American Indian community and language newspapers, African American community newspapers, religious community newspapers, and other specific ethnic communities. SLAPR is collaborating with the University of Arizona Library.

Media Coverage

Arizona Memory Project To Digitize Newspapers From The State's Early Years (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Lauren Gilger
Publication: KJZZ's The Show
Date: 8/7/2019
Abstract: Radio interview for curated program The Show on KJZZ. KJZZ is a listener-supported public radio station broadcasting to the Phoenix, Arizona, metropolitan area and is the NPR member station for the region. In particular two recently digitized NDNP newspapers were discussed: the Arizona Gleam and The Phoenix Tribune. These are two African American papers published in Arizona.
URL: https://kjzz.org/content/1104396/arizona-memory-project-digitize-newspapers-states-early-years

Sativa Peterson: Preserving Arizona’s printed past (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Dillon Rosenblatt
Publication: Arizona Capitol Times
Date: 8/9/2019
Abstract: Reporter Dillon Rosenblatt of the Arizona Capitol Times interviews NDNP grant Project Director Sativa Peterson about the newspaper collection at the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records.
URL: https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2019/08/09/sativa-peterson-preserving-arizonas-printed-past/

Arizona Memory Project adds Duncan newspaper collection (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Ken Showers
Publication: Eastern Arizona Courier
Date: 7/8/2019
Abstract: Newspaper article about the recent digitization of the Duncan Arizonian newspaper from 1911-1913. The newspaper was one of the titles digitized as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program grant awarded in 2017.
URL: https://www.eacourier.com/copper_era/news/arizona-memory-project-adds-duncan-newspaper-collection/article_5338ad2a-a0e3-11e9-b091-5f5117798111.html

Paper Chase: Newspaper Librarian Sativa Peterson Keeps the Past in the Basement (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Robrt L. Pela
Publication: Phoenix New Times
Date: 8/19/2019
Abstract: Reporter Robrt L. Pela interviews NDNP grant Program Director Sativa Peterson about the newspaper collection at the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records.
URL: https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arts/under-the-sun-arizona-newspaper-librarian-sativa-peterson-11346083

Arizona Memory Project Digitizes African American Newspaper From 1930s (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Kathy Ritchie
Publication: KJZZ
Date: 11/13/2019
Abstract: KJZZ 91.5, the local NPR affiliate for the metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona area talks with NDNP grant Project Director Sativa Peterson about two recently digitized African American newspapers from the 1930's: The Phoenix Index and the Arizona Gleam both of which had African American female publishers.
URL: https://kjzz.org/content/1303761/arizona-memory-project-digitizes-african-american-newspaper-1930s

Associated Products

"History at Your Fingertips": An ADNP Interactive Display (Exhibition)
Title: "History at Your Fingertips": An ADNP Interactive Display
Curator: Arizona Capitol Museum
Abstract: The exhibit will consist of a stand-alone kiosk with a touch-screen monitor that will allow viewers to interact with the ADNP website, a tutorial that guides the user through using the ADNP website effectively, and a trivia game that connects the Territorial Governors with the newspapers in the ADNP collections. We believe that, on top of outreach at events, by giving the broadest sectors of the public access to and information on our digital newspaper resources we can make visible a previously hidden or obscured set of primary sources once available only by physically accessing an institution. Today, digital newspaper collections endeavor to bring historical documents to the public’s fingertips and we believe the ADNP interactive exhibit will help even more people become aware of and learn how to access this particular pulse on history.
Year: 2014

Bringing Digital Papers into the Traditional Museum: Examining the Territorial Governors through the Arizona Digital Newspaper Program (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Bringing Digital Papers into the Traditional Museum: Examining the Territorial Governors through the Arizona Digital Newspaper Program
Author: Eden Robins
Author: Christopher Sloan
Abstract: This paper examines the process of creating a permanent physical exhibit showcasing the work of the Arizona Digital Newspaper Program (ADNP) in the context of the Territorial Governor’s room at the Arizona Capitol Museum. The exhibit will consist of a stand-alone kiosk with a touch-screen monitor that will allow viewers to interact with the ADNP website, a tutorial that guides the user through using the ADNP website effectively, and a trivia game that connects the Territorial Governors with the newspapers in the ADNP collections. The paper will include the reasons why we chose to focus on the governors we did, why the exhibit is the best format to reach the public in an informative and engaging way, the collaboration between departments, the participation of volunteers in the project, and the challenge and potential for incorporating digital newspapers into a larger museum setting. We believe that this type of outreach and collaboration is invaluable to digital newspaper programs. Often these programs focus primarily (and more or less, naturally) on their web presence. We believe that, on top of outreach at events, by giving the broadest sectors of the public access to and information on our digital newspaper resources we can make visible a previously hidden or obscured set of primary sources once available only by physically accessing an institution. Today, digital newspaper collections endeavor to bring historical documents to the public’s fingertips and we believe the ADNP interactive exhibit will help even more people become aware of and learn how to access this particular pulse on history.
Date: 02/04/14
Primary URL: http://www.ifla.org/node/8006
Primary URL Description: IFLA International Newspaper Conference 2014

Digitizing history: The Apache Sentinel (Blog Post)
Title: Digitizing history: The Apache Sentinel
Author: Sativa Peterson
Abstract: Blog post about The Apache Sentinel which began publication at Fort Huachuca, Arizona in July of 1943. According to the Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation, 14,000 black soldiers and WACs lived at Fort Huachuca, and the Apache Sentinel was the newspaper that chronicled the social activities and training of those who lived at the fort.
Date: 06/25/2018
Primary URL: https://statelibraryofarizona.wordpress.com/2018/06/25/the-apache-sentinel/
Primary URL Description: Blog of the State of Arizona Research Library
Website: The Shining S.T.A.R.L.

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