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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
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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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