Arizona Digital Newspaper Project, Phase One

FAIN: PJ-50036-08

Arizona State Library, Archives & Public Records (Phoenix, AZ 85007-2819)
Melanie Sturgeon (Project Director: November 2007 to June 2015)

Funding details:
Original grant (2008) $400,000.00
Supplement (2010) $314,790.00
Supplement (2012) $190,932.09

Digitization of 100,000 pages of Arizona newspapers, dating from 1880 to 1922, as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

The Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records, (ASLAPR) leading a statewide collaboration, will digitize approximately 50 Arizona newspaper titles, 1880-1912, and make them available to the National Digital Newspaper Project. These years are especially significant in Arizona history because they document the three decades that immediately precede Statehood on February, 12, 1912. ASLAPR is a lead agency planning the Arizona Centennial, and this digitization project can contribute directly to Arizonans' understanding and appreciation of their state's history. Digitization will follow Library of Congress specifications as outlined in the NDNP Technical Guidelines. ASLAPR will also make the information available on its own website.

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 Today, digital newspaper collections endeavor to bring historical documents to the public’s fingertips and we believe the ADNP interactive exhibit will help even more people become aware of and learn how to access this particular pulse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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