Fund awarded to digitize historical newspapers

The UNT Libraries recently received an additional two-year grant of $399,790 to expand its digitization of historic Texas newspapers, with pages from as early as 1860 and as late as 1922. The UNT Libraries first received a two-year $397,552 grant from NEH in 2007. This allowed the Digital Projects Unit to digitize 108,000 pages of newspapers published in Texas.

The UNT Libraries is one of 22 state partners, and the only partner from Texas, to receive National Endowment for the Humanities funding to digitize newspapers from the late 1800s and early 1900s for the National Digital Newspaper Program, “Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers.”

The UNT is also a partner with the Oklahoma Historical Society, which received a $307,000 grant from NEH to make 100,000 pages of historical Oklahoma newspapers available to the National Digital Newspaper Project.

See also the following related news and articles:

• The June 26 NewsChannel 8 story: Oklahoma Historical Society Receives Grant

• The July 1st, 2009 issue of InHouse Newsletter: Additional funds awarded to digitize historical newspapers 

• The July 2nd, 2009 UNT News Releases entitled: UNT receives additional funds to digitize historical Texas newspapers
• On July 4, 2009, Tulsa Today published a news release entitled: Texas Newspaper acquires funding to digitize, partners with Oklahoma Historical Society
  
• The July 5th, 2009 issue of Fort-Worth Star-Telegram had an editorial column (in Sunday’s newspaper) about Chronicling America: Library of Congress puts historic U.S. newspapers online to see how media covered history as it was made
• The editorial was reprinted on various News pages including:
• July 6th, 2009 on TMCnet.com
  
• July 6th, 2009 on iStockAnalyst