Maine Digital Newspaper Program Proposal : 2022-2024 NDNP Cycle

FAIN: PJ-287885-22

Maine State Library (Augusta, ME 04330-6845)
Adam Charles Fisher (Project Director: January 2022 to present)
Jeff Eastman (Co Project Director: September 2022 to present)

Digitization of 100,000 pages of historical Maine newspapers with a focus on francophone titles that document labor struggles and discrimination at the turn of the last century.

In an effort to expand access to the stories of Maine people and places, the Maine State Library (MSL) is seeking funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities National Digital Newspaper Program for the digitization of historical newspapers. This proposal builds upon our previous newspaper digitization projects with a particular focus on titles relating to Franco Americans and the labor movement in Maine. Over the two-year period described in this application, MSL will deliver all 100,000 digitized newspaper pages and all required digital, metadata, and microfilm deliverables to the Library of Congress for inclusion in Chronicling America.