New round of funds to digitize newspapers

 

The UNT Libraries received an additional two-year grant of $399,790 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to expand its digitization of historic Texas newspapers. Pages from as early as 1860 and as late as 1922 will be digitized, says Cathy Hartman, the libraries’ assistant dean for digital and information technologies.

 

The libraries first received a two-year $397,552 grant from NEH in 2007, which allowed UNT’s Digital Projects Unit to digitize 108,000 pages of newspapers published in Texas.

 

One of 22 state partners, UNT is the only partner from Texas to receive NEH funding to digitize newspapers from the late 1800s and early 1900s for the National Digital Newspaper Program, Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers.

 

The program is a long-term effort of NEH and the Library of Congress to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with select digitization of historic papers.

 

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