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Subject: FYI National Digital Newspaper Program
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Posted at the request of the National Endowment for the Humanities,
Division of Preservation and Access
Request for Proposals-Cooperative Agreements for the National Digital
Newspaper Program (A Partnership between NEH and the Library of
Congress)
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/ndnp.html
Program Overview
* Award amount: up to $400,000
* Deadline for submission: November 1, 2007
* Award announcement: June 2008
* Grant period: 2 years beginning July 2008
NEH is soliciting proposals from institutions to participate in the
National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). Ultimately, over a period of
approximately 20 years, NDNP will create a national, digital resource
of historically significant newspapers from all the states and U.S.
territories published between 1836 and 1922. This searchable database
will be permanently maintained at the Library of Congress (LC) and be
freely accessible via the Internet. [See the beta prototype Web site,
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers at
http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/ .] An accompanying national
newspaper directory of bibliographic and holdings information on the
Web site will direct users to newspaper titles available in all types
of formats. LC will also digitize and contribute to the NDNP database a
significant number of newspaper pages drawn from its own collections
during the course of this partnership between NEH and the Library.
The NDNP will be implemented in several phases, gradually extending its
chronological coverage. Since 2005, awards to state projects are
supporting the selection and digitization of titles published in
California, Florida, Kentucky, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, Texas,
Utah, and Virginia between 1880 and 1910. The Endowment intends to
fund projects in all states and U.S. territories provided that
sufficient funds allocated for this purpose are available. One
organization within each U.S. state or territory will receive an award
to collaborate with relevant state partners in this effort. Previously
funded projects will be eligible for continued support to digitize
pages from new decades, as the program increases its chronological
span. During this phase of NDNP, successful applicants will select
newspapers-published in their state in English between 1880 and
1922-and convert, primarily from microfilm, over a period of two years,
approximately 100,000 pages into digital files, according to the
technical guidelines
(http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/pdf/NDNP_200810TechNotes.pdf) outlined by the
Library of Congress.
NDNP builds on the foundation established by an earlier NEH initiative:
the United States Newspaper Program (USNP). Since 1982, the Endowment
has supported a cooperative, national effort to locate, catalog, and
preserve on microfilm American newspapers published from the 18th
century to the present. NEH has funded newspaper projects in all the
fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin
Islands. When completed in 2009, USNP will have provided bibliographic
control to widely scattered newspapers and have preserved on microfilm
(to consistent national standards) selected titles from this vulnerable
corpus. LC has provided technical assistance for the USNP since its
inception.
NEH expects to award two-year cooperative agreements (of up to $400,000
each), depending on the availability of funds. The Guidelines for the
Request for Proposals are located at:
http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/ndnp.html . LC*s technical
guidelines are found at:
http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/pdf/NDNP_200810TechNotes.pdf .
For information about the application process, contact the Division of
Preservation and Access at 202-606-8570 or e-mail at
[log in to unmask] The postal address is:
National Digital Newspaper Program
Division of Preservation and Access
Room 411
National Endowment for the Humanities
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20506
Hearing-impaired applicants can contact NEH via TDD at 1-866-372-2930.
All questions relating to the technical guidelines should be directed
to LC staff at [log in to unmask]
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