Maine Digital Newspaper Program Proposal: 2023-2026 NDNP Cycle
FAIN: PJ-301192-24
Maine State Library (Augusta, ME 04330-6845)
Adam Charles Fisher (Project Director: January 2024 to August 2024)
Adam Charles Fisher (Project Director: August 2024 to present)
This project also received funding with the previous award listed below.
Previous award PJ-287885-22
Digitization
of 100,000 pages of historic Maine newspapers with a focus on environmental
themes, labor, local industries, and French-language newspapers.
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 that will expand the geographic, chronological, linguistic, and political coverage of our digitized news heritage. 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.