South Carolina Digital Newspaper Program
FAIN: PJ-301181-24
University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC 29208-0001)
Laura Carter (Project Director: January 2024 to September 2024)
Katherine Hoskins (Project Director: September 2024 to present)
Katherine Hoskins (Co Project Director: August 2024 to September 2024)
Craig Keeney (Co Project Director: August 2024 to present)
This project also received funding with the previous award listed below.
Previous award PJ-287622-22
Digitization
of 100,000 pages of historic South Carolina newspapers with a focus on
environmental history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the African American experience in South Carolina.
The South Carolina Digital Newspaper Program (SCDNP), a collaboration between the University of South Carolina Libraries Digital Collections Department and the South Caroliniana Library, will scan and deliver to the Library of Congress (LOC) through the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) 100,000 pages of historical South Carolina newspapers published prior to 1963. Over the two-year project period (2024-26), the SCDNP team will: work with advisory board members to select newspapers reflecting South Carolina's environmental history and the overlapping themes of environmental and racial justice; work with external vendors to digitize newspapers, chiefly from microfilm, duplicate the microfilm, and prepare it for delivery; promote Chronicling America and the NDNP through community outreach events; and submit deliverables to LOC on schedule for inclusion in Chronicling America.