National Digital Newspaper Program
FIRST GRANTS AWARDED IN NATIONAL DIGITAL NEWSPAPER PROGRAM
The Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced that six institutions have received more than $1.9 million in grants in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) http://www.neh.fed.us/projects/ndnp.html, a new, long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers now in the public domain. Two-year projects in California, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah and Virginia each will digitize 100,000 or more pages of each state's most historically significant newspapers published between 1900 and 1910. When completed, digitized newspapers will be made available through the Library's Web site....
The following six institutions received the first NDNP grants to digitize papers in their respective states from the first decade of the 20th century:
�University of California, Riverside, $400,000;
�University of Florida Libraries, Gainesville, $320, 959;
�University of Kentucky Research Foundation, Lexington, $310,000;
�New York Public Library, New York City, $351,500;
�University of Utah, Salt Lake City, $352,693; and
�Library of Virginia, Richmond, $201,226.
It's like someone has gotten chocolate in my peanut butter or vice versa ... I look forward to reading more about the project.