Program

Preservation and Access: National Digital Newspaper Program

Period of Performance

7/1/2008 - 8/31/2014

Funding Totals

$1,108,665.00 (approved)
$1,108,665.00 (awarded)


Pennsylvania Digital Newspaper Project, Phase One

FAIN: PJ-50034-08

Pennsylvania State University (University Park, PA 16802-1503)
Lydia Suzanne Kellerman (Project Director: November 2007 to January 2015)

Funding details:
Original grant (2008) $393,650.00
Supplement (2010) $393,489.00
Supplement (2012) $321,526.00

Digitization of 100,000 pages of Pennsylvania newspapers, dating from 1880 to 1922, as part of the state's participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

On behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania State University Libraries requests funding in the amount of $393,650 to support its participation in the National Endowment for the Humanities? National Digital Newspaper Program coordinated by the Library of Congress. In addition to the amount requested from NEH, the Pennsylvania State University Libraries will provide $150,146 in cost-share support for the project.