Arkansas Digital Newspaper Project
FAIN: PJ-256021-17
Arkansas State Archives (Little Rock, AR 72201-1049)
Lisa K Speer (Project Director: January 2017 to February 2018)
Mary Dunn (Project Director: February 2018 to August 2019)
Brian Irby (Project Director: August 2019 to January 2023)
Katherine Adkins (Project Director: January 2023 to present)
This project also received funding with the renewal award listed below.
Subsequent award (renewal) PJ-293522-23
Funding details:
Original grant (2017) $208,128.00
Supplement (2019) $250,552.00
Supplement (2021) $169,148.00
Supplement (2024) ($13,172.11)
Digitization of 100,000 pages of Arkansas
newspapers published between 1819 and 1922, as part of the state’s
participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
The Arkansas State Archives
(ASA) proposes to select, digitize, and make available to the Library of
Congress 100,000 pages of its state's historic newspapers, published from
1819-1922 as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). The ASA
holds the largest concentration of microfilmed Arkansas newspapers from this
period. For this project, Arkansas will partner with its neighbor institution,
the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH), for technical
aspects of this project. Since the MDAH has completed successfully two NDNP
cycles, this collaboration will afford Arkansas an efficient, standards-based
digitization process. The ASA holds 757 titles from the target period. The
newspapers represent state, regional and local coverage; often represent a
particular political affiliation; and cover all parts of the state, with
geographical publishing patterns reflecting community and commercial
development in the state.