PJ-280743-21 | Preservation and Access: National Digital Newspaper Program | Boston Public Library Foundation, Inc. | Boston Public Library – National Digital Newspaper Program | 9/1/2021 - 8/31/2023 | $231,868.00 | Eben | | English | | | | Boston Public Library Foundation, Inc. | Boston | MA | 02116-2813 | USA | 2021 | Journalism | National Digital Newspaper Program | Preservation and Access | 231868 | 0 | 144362.98 | 0 | A first round of funding to include Massachusetts in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). Boston Public Library (BPL) proposes to digitize 100,000 pages of newspapers based on its own master negative microfilm, some of which has already been digitized and is ready for re-use in Chronicling America.
Boston Public Library will digitize a minimum of 100,000 pages of newspaper microfilm published in Massachusetts between 1690 and 1963 for inclusion in the National Digital Newspaper Program. |
PJ-287517-22 | Preservation and Access: National Digital Newspaper Program | Indiana State Library | Indiana Historic Newspaper Digitization Project | 9/1/2022 - 8/31/2024 | $150,375.00 | Robert | William | Clark | | | | Indiana State Library | Indianapolis | IN | 46204-2207 | USA | 2022 | Interdisciplinary Studies, Other | National Digital Newspaper Program | Preservation and Access | 150375 | 0 | 150375 | 0 | The digitization of 100,000 pages of Indiana newspapers published between 1896 and 1963 with an emphasis on newspapers from northern Indiana.
This project will continue the work completed with the 2011, 2013, 2015, and 2017 NEH-NDNP grant to digitize and make available approximately 100,000 pages of historic Indiana newspapers published between 1890 and 1963. Digitization will be from second generation silver negative print masters created for the project from first generation silver negative camera masters of Indiana newspaper titles. Products of this grant will include: uncompressed TIFF page images, derivative JPEG2000 images, derivative PDF files, OCR text files, and structured metadata. An historical essay will be created for every newspaper title along with updated CONSER-level MARC records. Digitization of these newspapers will allow important elements of Indiana's rich history to be more accessible to researchers. |
PJ-287532-22 | Preservation and Access: National Digital Newspaper Program | Dartmouth College | New Hampshire Digital Newspaper Project | 9/1/2022 - 8/31/2024 | $298,001.00 | Laura | R. | Braunstein | | | | Dartmouth College | Hanover | NH | 03755-1808 | USA | 2022 | U.S. History | National Digital Newspaper Program | Preservation and Access | 298001 | 0 | 298001 | 0 | Entry
of New Hampshire into the National Digital Newspaper Program with the
digitization of 100,000 pages from master negatives. The focus of this first
round of contribution would be on “papers of record” with broad geographic
coverage and titles that reflect the political, economic, and cultural history
of New Hampshire.
The Dartmouth Library requests $298,001 from the National Endowment for the Humanities for the New Hampshire Digital Newspaper Project, to select, digitize, and make available to the Library of Congress 100,000 pages of historical newspapers through the National Digital Newspaper Program. Receiving this grant would mean that New Hampshire would be the last of the fifty states to be included in this important program. The New Hampshire Digital Newspaper Project will be led by the Dartmouth Library in partnership with the New Hampshire State Library, the New Hampshire Historical Society, and the University of New Hampshire Library. The project will be a public-private partnership between Dartmouth College and New Hampshire’s flagship educational and cultural heritage institutions. |
PJ-287536-22 | Preservation and Access: National Digital Newspaper Program | Viginia Commonwealth, Library of Virginia | Virginia Digital Newspaper Program, 2022-2024 | 9/1/2022 - 8/31/2024 | $219,801.00 | John | D. | Metz | | | | Viginia Commonwealth, Library of Virginia | Richmond | VA | 23219-1905 | USA | 2022 | U.S. History | National Digital Newspaper Program | Preservation and Access | 219801 | 0 | 219801 | 0 | Digitization of 100,000 pages of historical Virginia newspapers dating from 1780-1963 with a focus on the early Republic period (1780-1820), as well as expansion into the twentieth century.
During the 2022-2024 award cycle of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), the Library of Virginia (LVA) and the Virginia Newspaper Project (VNP) propose the digitization of selected historically significant Virginia imprint newspapers with particular focus on later colonial and early antebellum titles and the continuation of titles currently available in the Chronicling America newspaper repository with the goal of extending those titles to 1963. The titles will be selected in partnership with an engaged and knowledgeable advisory board. The Virginia grant will contribute 100,000 pages in accordance to NDNP specifications and according to an agreed schedule. |
PJ-287579-22 | Preservation and Access: National Digital Newspaper Program | University of Alabama | NDNP Alabama Digital Newspaper Project | 9/1/2022 - 8/31/2024 | $311,340.00 | Jessica | Kincaid | Robertson | Donald | L. | Gilstrap | University of Alabama | Tuscaloosa | AL | 35487-0001 | USA | 2022 | U.S. History | National Digital Newspaper Program | Preservation and Access | 311340 | 0 | 311340 | 0 | The digitization of 100,000 pages of microfilmed historic Alabama newspapers, including the Birmingham Age-Herald and the Montgomery Advertiser, published between 1901 and 1926.
Digitization of 100,000 pages of microfilmed historic Alabama newspapers, including the Birmingham Age-Herald and the Montgomery Advertiser, published between 1901 and 1926 as part of the state’s participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program |
PJ-287600-22 | Preservation and Access: National Digital Newspaper Program | Historical Society of Minnesota | Digitization of Minnesota Newspapers, 1849-1963 | 9/1/2022 - 8/31/2024 | $250,004.00 | Shawn | P. | Rounds | | | | Historical Society of Minnesota | St. Paul | MN | 55102-1903 | USA | 2022 | U.S. History | National Digital Newspaper Program | Preservation and Access | 250004 | 0 | 250004 | 0 | The digitization of 100,000 pages of historic Minnesota newspapers published between 1849 and 1963, with an emphasis on the period 1923-1963.
The Minnesota Historical Society proposes to digitize 100,000 pages of Minnesota newspapers from the period 1849-1963, as part of the National Endowment for the Humanities National Digital Newspaper Project. The project will take two years, from September 2022-August 2024. At the end of the project, the Society will transfer to the Library of Congress all digital files, essays, required metadata and duplicate microfilm, per the specifications of the grant. The Society holds the largest collection of Minnesota newspapers of any repository, represented by over 4000 titles. The collection is especially important because of Minnesota's role as a cultural and economic center in the Upper Midwest and its historical significance in the economic development of the entire Northwest. The Society will adhere faithfully to technical guidelines and standards of the NDNP and the Library of Congress; these will continue to be the framework for the work plan. |
PJ-287622-22 | Preservation and Access: National Digital Newspaper Program | University of South Carolina | Underrepresented Perspectives in South Carolina Newspapers | 9/1/2022 - 8/31/2025 | $314,620.00 | Kate | Foster | Boyd | Craig | | Keeney | University of South Carolina | Columbia | SC | 29208-0001 | USA | 2022 | Public History | National Digital Newspaper Program | Preservation and Access | 314620 | 0 | 314620 | 0 | 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. |
PJ-287773-22 | Preservation and Access: National Digital Newspaper Program | University of Nebraska, Lincoln | Nebraska Digital Newspaper Project, Phase 5 | 9/1/2022 - 8/31/2024 | $275,904.00 | Laura | | Weakly | | | | University of Nebraska, Lincoln | Lincoln | NE | 68503-2427 | USA | 2022 | Journalism | National Digital Newspaper Program | Preservation and Access | 275904 | 0 | 275904 | 0 | Digitization of 100,000 pages of Nebraska
newspapers, published prior to 1963, as part of the state’s continuing
participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
Since 1982, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has led the United States Newspaper Program and the National Digital Newspaper Program projects for the State of Nebraska. In this fifth NDNP grant proposal, UNL’s Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, part of the University Libraries, will select, digitize, and send to the Library of Congress an estimated 100,000 pages of Nebraska newspapers dating from 1854-1963 for inclusion in Chronicling America. We are excited about continued digitization and look forward to meeting the National Endowment for the Humanities “A More Perfect Union” vision of inclusion of under-represented communities and voices. |
PJ-287774-22 | Preservation and Access: National Digital Newspaper Program | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Illinois Digital Newspaper Project | 9/1/2022 - 8/31/2025 | $299,977.00 | Celestina | | Savonius-Wroth | William | | Schlaack | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Champaign | IL | 61801-3620 | USA | 2022 | U.S. History | National Digital Newspaper Program | Preservation and Access | 299977 | 0 | 299977 | 0 | The digitization of 100,000 pages of historical Illinois newspapers with a focus on suburban areas and southern regions of the state.
The Illinois Digital Newspaper Project at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign seeks funding to digitize 100,000 pages of newspaper content representing geographically and demographically diverse Illinois communities. The titles will be selected through a proposal process open to all Illinois libraries and cultural heritage repositories. This approach will yield a list of Illinois newspapers for digitization from geographic areas and demographic groups of Illinois (including suburbs, regional cities, rural communities, and small towns) that are not yet represented in Chronicling America. It will also serve as an opportunity to promote the importance and value of the National Digital Newspaper Program, the Library of Congress, and the National Endowment for the Humanities to interested citizens throughout the state. The Illinois Digital Newspaper Project has contributed over 500,000 pages of newspaper content to the National Digital Newspaper Program since 2009. |
PJ-287801-22 | Preservation and Access: National Digital Newspaper Program | Arizona State Library, Archives & Public Records | Arizona Digital Newspaper Project | 9/1/2022 - 2/28/2025 | $291,018.00 | Korina | Lombardo | Tueller | Mary | | Feeney | Arizona State Library, Archives & Public Records | Phoenix | AZ | 85007-2819 | USA | 2022 | U.S. History | National Digital Newspaper Program | Preservation and Access | 291018 | 0 | 290988 | 0 | Digitization
of 100,000 pages of Arizona newspapers, published prior to 1963, as part of the
state’s continuing participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program
(NDNP).
The Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records in partnership with the University of Arizona Libraries requests $291,018 to select, digitize and make available to the Library of Congress 100,000 historic newspaper pages. Approximately one quarter of these pages will increase racial, ethnic, and linguistic representation in the Arizona newspapers digitized for Chronicling America. Other goals include expansion of the digitization of newspapers published along the Arizona-Mexico borderlands; broadening the inclusion of newspapers published in mining and agricultural communities; and exploring Arizona’s history as seen through its newspapers in the context of the National Endowment for the Humanities’ (NEH) initiative “A More Perfect Union.” |
PJ-287825-22 | Preservation and Access: National Digital Newspaper Program | West Virginia University Research Corporation | West Virginia Digital Newspaper Project Cycle 6 | 9/1/2022 - 8/31/2024 | $221,155.00 | Ann | S. | Plein | | | | West Virginia University Research Corporation | Morgantown | WV | 26505-2742 | USA | 2022 | Public History | National Digital Newspaper Program | Preservation and Access | 221155 | 0 | 221155 | 0 | The digitization of approximately 100,000 pages of historical West Virginia newspapers as part of the state’s participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program.
The West Virginia University Libraries seek funds to continue participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program. The WVUL will digitize 100,000 pages of important historic and representative newspapers published within the present borders of West Virginia within the project date frame which now extends up to 1963. This project will fully comply with all requirements and technical specifications set forth by the NEH and the Library of Congress for digital newspaper projects. |
PJ-287885-22 | Preservation and Access: National Digital Newspaper Program | Maine State Library | Maine Digital Newspaper Program Proposal : 2022-2024 NDNP Cycle | 9/1/2022 - 8/31/2024 | $223,575.00 | Adam | Charles | Fisher | Jeff | | Eastman | Maine State Library | Augusta | ME | 04330-6845 | USA | 2022 | U.S. History | National Digital Newspaper Program | Preservation and Access | 223575 | 0 | 223575 | 0 | 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. |
PJ-287886-22 | Preservation and Access: National Digital Newspaper Program | Alaska Division of Libraries, Archives, and Museums | Alaska Digital Newspaper Program | 9/1/2022 - 8/31/2025 | $226,235.00 | Freya | | Anderson | | | | Alaska Division of Libraries, Archives, and Museums | Juneau | AK | 99801-1878 | USA | 2022 | History, General | National Digital Newspaper Program | Preservation and Access | 226235 | 0 | 226235 | 0 | Digitization
of 100,000 pages of Alaska newspapers, published prior to 1963, as part of the
state’s continuing participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program
(NDNP).
The Alaska State Library requests funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize Alaska’s microfilmed newspapers for the Alaska Digital Newspaper Project. Through this cycle, the Alaska Digital Newspaper Project will identify new titles and extend runs of previously identified titles, with a focus on digitizing mid-century newspapers. During this period of history newspapers reported on capital industrialism and militarism that greatly expanded the scope of natural resource development and socio-economic issues. Significant historical events during this period were the Great Depression, WWII, the Cold War, nuclear testing, Alaska Statehood, the Tuberculosis epidemic, and civil rights achievements of Alaska Natives and labor groups. This cycle will focus on locating issues of several smaller but significant titles such as the Alaska Spotlight, possibly the only African American newspaper produced in the state. Other papers of interest are newspapers in rural villages |
PJ-292986-23 | Preservation and Access: National Digital Newspaper Program | University of Georgia | Georgia National Digital Newspaper Program Cycle 4 | 9/1/2023 - 8/31/2025 | $302,070.00 | Donald | | Summerlin | | | | University of Georgia | Athens | GA | 30602-0001 | USA | 2023 | U.S. History | National Digital Newspaper Program | Preservation and Access | 302070 | 0 | 302070 | 0 | Digitization of 100,000 pages of Georgia newspapers published prior to 1963, as part of the state’s continuing participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). This phase would focus on papers published during the Jim Crow and early civil rights eras.
The Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) requests $302,070 to select, digitize, and make available to the Library of Congress 100,000 pages of public domain Georgia newspapers from the Jim Crow Georgia and the Early Civil Rights periods, 1877 to 1963, as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). We also propose to continue our successful social media outreach featuring the DLG’s contributions to the NDNP. Also, staff at UGA’s DigiLab will develop a three-part webinar series on text mining the Chronicling America and Georgia Historic Newspaper (GHN) collections. As part of the DLG’s outreach to K-12 students, DLG staff will create a series of posters and a primary source set that features Chronicling America and GHN content. The posters and primary source set will align with the Georgia Standards of Excellence for Social Studies. The project builds upon the established expertise in the digitization of historical materials, including newspapers of the state of Georgia. |
PJ-292993-23 | Preservation and Access: National Digital Newspaper Program | Ohio History Connection | National Digital Newspaper Program in Ohio, Round VI | 9/1/2023 - 8/31/2025 | $319,511.00 | Jenni | | Salamon | | | | Ohio History Connection | Columbus | OH | 43211-2474 | USA | 2023 | U.S. History | National Digital Newspaper Program | Preservation and Access | 319511 | 0 | 319511 | 0 | Digitization of 100,000 pages of Ohio newspapers published prior to 1963, as part of the state’s sixth round of participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). This phase would focus on three themes: community building, democracy, and transportation.
Ohio History Connection requests $319,511 from NEH to digitize 100,000 pages of Ohio’s microfilmed newspapers to continue the National Digital Newspaper Program in Ohio. By the end of 2020, OHC had digitized over 520,000 pages for Chronicling America, from various viewpoints, time periods, and areas of the state. In this round, we will build on this existing collection by focusing on papers that document Ohio’s transportation infrastructure, history of community building, and democracy in the state’s most transformative periods (pre-1835 and 1920-1963). Stories captured by these titles will amplify those already told in Chronicling America while exposing untold and lesser-known histories. From the impact of westward expansion and European settlement on the land we now call Ohio to the ways Ohioans caused and coped with change resulting from significant national and world events and movements, Ohio’s history both represents and is instrumental to understanding that of the entire U.S. [Edited by staff.] |
PJ-293081-23 | Preservation and Access: National Digital Newspaper Program | University of Florida | Florida Ethnic and Under-Represented Communities Digital Newspaper Project | 9/1/2023 - 8/31/2025 | $275,743.00 | Patrick | | Reakes | Melissa | | Jerome | University of Florida | Gainesville | FL | 32611-0001 | USA | 2023 | Latin American Studies | National Digital Newspaper Program | Preservation and Access | 275743 | 0 | 275743 | 0 | The digitization of 100,000 historical and multilingual newspapers from diverse ethnic and religious groups, as well as geographic locations in Florida for participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
The University of Florida requests $275,743 to select, digitize and make available to the Library of Congress approximately 100,000 historic newspaper pages through the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). Titles for digitization will be selected for their ethnic, cultural, linguistic, religious, and geographic diversity to better reflect Florida history in the first half of the twentieth century. Areas of focus include significant multilingual papers from counties unrepresented in Chronicling America; Cuban papers from Miami and Tampa; Jewish newspapers from Jacksonville; and papers from Tarpon Springs, an area with a significant Greek population. These electronic resources will provide context and support for research into the historical basis of racial issues that continue today and seem particularly relevant with current scholarly and public discussions. |
PJ-293096-23 | Preservation and Access: National Digital Newspaper Program | Regents of the University of California, Riverside | California NDNP 2023-25 | 9/1/2023 - 8/31/2025 | $321,382.00 | Brian | | Geiger | | | | Regents of the University of California, Riverside | Riverside | CA | 92521-0001 | USA | 2023 | African American History | National Digital Newspaper Program | Preservation and Access | 321382 | 0 | 321382 | 0 | Digitization of a collection of mid-twentieth century African American newspapers from Los Angeles and the Bay Area, as part of the state’s participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
The Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research (CBSR) at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) requests $321,382 in funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to digitize mid-twentieth-century African-American newspapers from Los Angeles and the Bay Area and contribute them to the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). The CBSR participated in NDNP from 2005 to 2011 and from 2015 to 2020, receiving five two-year awards. We delivered over 500,000 pages for all five awards. If funded, this sixth award will be California’s “Civil Rights Era” contribution to NDNP, focusing on the state’s rapidly growing black populations in the postwar years. |
PJ-293161-23 | Preservation and Access: National Digital Newspaper Program | University of Wyoming | Wyoming Digital Newspaper Project | 9/1/2023 - 8/31/2025 | $263,100.00 | Chad | | Hutchens | | | | University of Wyoming | Laramie | WY | 82071-2000 | USA | 2023 | U.S. History | National Digital Newspaper Program | Preservation and Access | 263100 | 0 | 262828 | 0 | Digitization of 100,000 pages of Wyoming’s microfilmed newspapers as part of the state’s continuing participation in the National Digital Newspaper Project.
The University of Wyoming requests $263,900 from the National Endowment for the Humanities over a two-year period to digitize an additional 100,000 pages of Wyoming’s microfilmed newspapers for the National Digital Newspaper Project. The Wyoming State Archives holds the most complete collection of master copies of Wyoming newspapers on microfilm. The Wyoming Digital Newspaper project will deliver 100,000 digitized newspaper pages to the Library of Congress as well as all required accompanying digital, textual and microfilm deliverables. |
PJ-293177-23 | Preservation and Access: National Digital Newspaper Program | Boston Public Library Foundation, Inc. | Boston Public Library - National Digital Newspaper Program | 9/1/2023 - 8/31/2025 | $152,802.67 | Jacob | | Sadow | | | | Boston Public Library Foundation, Inc. | Boston | MA | 02116-2813 | USA | 2023 | U.S. History | National Digital Newspaper Program | Preservation and Access | 152802.67 | 0 | 152802 | 0 | Digitization of 100,000 pages of Massachusetts newspapers published prior to 1963, as part of the state’s continuing participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). This phase would continue to focus on papers of record in the state, as well as eighteenth-century newspapers.
This second cycle of the National Digital Newspaper Program grant project will allow Boston Public Library to contribute an additional 100,000 pages of digital newspaper published in Massachusetts between 1690 and 1963 to the Library of Congress' Chronicling America database. |
PJ-293221-23 | Preservation and Access: National Digital Newspaper Program | Connecticut State Library | Connecticut Digital Newspaper Project | 9/1/2023 - 8/31/2025 | $259,644.00 | Anna | | Newman | | | | Connecticut State Library | Hartford | CT | 06106-1569 | USA | 2023 | U.S. History | National Digital Newspaper Program | Preservation and Access | 259644 | 0 | 259644 | 0 | Digitization of 100,000 pages of Connecticut newspapers published prior to 1963, as part of the state’s continuing participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). This phase would focus on papers from the early nineteenth century, a Polish newspaper, and papers covering Hartford during the 1940s and ’50s.
The Connecticut State Library will digitize 100,000 pages of historic Connecticut newspapers, focusing on political, economic, and social change in Connecticut in the early 19th century, the Polish immigrant community in New Britain, and suburbanization in the greater Hartford region in the 1940s and 1950s. Project staff will follow the Library of Congress's Technical Guidelines for quality review and deliver digital files, metadata, updated MARC records, and duplicates to the Library of Congress for access in Chronicling America. |
PJ-293239-23 | Preservation and Access: National Digital Newspaper Program | University of North Texas | Lone Star Ink: Texas NDNP 2023 | 9/1/2023 - 8/31/2025 | $203,140.00 | Mark | | Phillips | Ana | | Krahmer | University of North Texas | Denton | TX | 76203-5017 | USA | 2023 | U.S. History | National Digital Newspaper Program | Preservation and Access | 203140 | 0 | 203140 | 0 | Digitization of 100,000 pages of Texas newspapers dating from 1908 to 1945, as part of the state’s participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
The University of North Texas Libraries plan to digitize and make available to the National Digital Newspaper Program 100,000 newspaper pages. The selected titles will reflect the political and economic history of the state; provide coverage for major regions of the state, including most major population areas; and have a broad chronological span. Additionally, titles selected during this project will focus on non-English papers important to the history of Texas that, for several reasons, have been overlooked and are underrepresented in national digital newspaper holdings. Pulling on the strengths and knowledge gained in previous rounds, the UNT Libraries recognize the challenges involved in an undertaking of this scope and possess the knowledge and management skills to achieve success. [Edited by staff.] |
PJ-293387-23 | Preservation and Access: National Digital Newspaper Program | University of Kentucky Research Foundation | Kentucky Digital Newspaper Program | 9/1/2023 - 8/31/2025 | $322,526.00 | Kopana | | Terry | Deirdre | A. | Scaggs | University of Kentucky Research Foundation | Lexington | KY | 40506-0004 | USA | 2023 | U.S. History | National Digital Newspaper Program | Preservation and Access | 322526 | 0 | 322526 | 0 | The digitization of 100,000 pages of historical Kentucky newspapers with a focus on African American, emancipationist, Civil War–era, and German-language papers, which would resume the University of Kentucky Libraries’ participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
The University of Kentucky Libraries (UKL) requests funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize 100,000 newspaper pages of historic Kentucky newspapers for inclusion in Chronicling America and the Kentucky Digital Newspaper Program (KDNP). During this 2023-2025 NDNP grant cycle, UKL will identify and digitize-from-microfilm historic Kentucky newspapers from underrepresented populations and/or counties and out-of-copyright German-language volumes from across Kentucky. The KDNP will convey 100,000 digitized newspaper pages, microfilm assets, title essays, page, issue, and title metadata, and all batch deliverables to the Library of Congress. |
PJ-293421-23 | Preservation and Access: National Digital Newspaper Program | University of Maryland, College Park | Historic Maryland Newspapers Project, Phase 6 | 6/1/2024 - 5/31/2026 | $322,532.00 | Pamela | Annette | McClanahan | | | | University of Maryland, College Park | College Park | MD | 20742-5141 | USA | 2023 | U.S. History | National Digital Newspaper Program | Preservation and Access | 322532 | 0 | 322532 | 0 | Digitization of 100,000 pages of Maryland newspapers, published prior to 1963, as part of the state’s continuing participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). This phase would focus on papers from the colonial period and early nineteenth century, the Jewish Times, and titles covering Prince George’s County in the 1940s and ’50s.
The UM Libraries requests a supplemental grant to digitize an additional 100,000 pages of newspaper content for the National Digital Newspaper Program from September 2023 through August 2025. During the previous five rounds of funding, the project digitized 500,000 pages including English, German, Polish, Czech, and Italian titles from across the State of Maryland dating from 1727 to 1963. The next project phase will seek to provide researchers with newspapers that share the perspective of underrepresented groups including the Jewish community in Baltimore and African Americans in Prince Georges County and Baltimore, as well as some of the earliest extant titles of the state, spanning 1745 to 1963, and providing content covering local concerns and national or international issues. |
PJ-293506-23 | Preservation and Access: National Digital Newspaper Program | Providence Public Library | Rhode Island Historical Newspaper Digitization Project | 9/1/2023 - 8/31/2025 | $285,979.00 | Jordan | | Goffin | | | | Providence Public Library | Providence | RI | 02903-3219 | USA | 2023 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | National Digital Newspaper Program | Preservation and Access | 285979 | 0 | 285979 | 0 | Digitization of 100,000 pages of Rhode Island newspapers published before 1923, as part of the state’s participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
With support from the National Endowment for the Humanities’ National Digital Newspaper Program, Providence Public Library (PPL), in partnership with the Rhode Island Historical Society (RIHS), will complete an extensive newspaper digitization project that will result in a wealth of Rhode Island’s historical newspapers being digitized and widely available through the Library of Congress for the first time in history. RIHS currently holds master negative microfilm of 314 newspaper titles that ceased prior to 1923. As a result of this project, at least 100,000 pages will be digitized. [Edited by staff.] |
PJ-293522-23 | Preservation and Access: National Digital Newspaper Program | Arkansas State Archives | Arkansas Digital Newspaper Project, Cycle IV | 9/1/2023 - 8/31/2025 | $324,095.00 | Katherine | | Adkins | | | | Arkansas State Archives | Little Rock | AR | 72201-1049 | USA | 2023 | U.S. History | National Digital Newspaper Program | Preservation and Access | 324095 | 0 | 324095 | 0 | Digitization of 100,000 to 110,000 pages of Arkansas newspapers published from 1819 to the mid-1930s, with a focus on the Arkansas Gazette and on the evolving relationship between the economy and the environment.
The Arkansas State Archives proposes to select, digitize, and make available to the Library of Congress' Chronicling America website an additional 100,000 to 110,000 pages of its state’s historic newspapers, published from 1819 to 1963, as part of a fourth cycle of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). |