So long, microfilm: The University of Delaware Library has received a $121,907 grant to digitize about 55,000 pages of newspapers published in the state between 1836 and 1922, UDaily reports.
The grant comes from the National Endowment for the Humanities’ National Digital Newspaper Program and is available to the University until Aug. 31, 2017.
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Digitizing all those pages — which UD is doing to Library of Congress specifications — is no small task: It’ll involve choosing titles to digitize, outsourcing digitization and metadata creation, working with an outside vendor, giving instructions for handling microfilm rolls and submitting deliverables to the Library of Congress.
Here’s to a more accessible history!
UD Library says adios to microfilm
The University of Delaware Library has received a $121,907 grant to digitize about 55,000 pages of state newspapers.
