Underrepresented Perspectives in South Carolina Newspapers

FAIN: PJ-287622-22

University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC 29208-0001)
Kate Foster Boyd (Project Director: January 2022 to present)
Edward Blessing (Co Project Director: August 2022 to August 2022)
Craig Keeney (Co Project Director: August 2022 to present)

The digitization of approximately 100,000 pages of newspapers published by major religious denominations in South Carolina between 1690 and 1963, which would resume the  University of South Carolina’s participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

The University of South Carolina (UofSC) Libraries Digital Collections Department in collaboration with the South Caroliniana Library (SCL) and other institutional partners will scan and deliver to the Library of Congress (LC) through the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) approximately 100,000 pages of historic South Carolina newspapers published between 1690 and 1963. The project will build on the library’s previous successful rounds of participation in the NDNP (2009-2015) and its subsequent efforts to make newspapers accessible. Over the next two years (2022-2024), the South Carolina Digital Newspaper Program (SCDNP) will: rely on the content knowledge of its advisory board and team members to select newspapers; work with an external vendor to digitize newspapers from microfilm; and submit deliverables to the Library of Congress on schedule for inclusion in Chronicling America.