Melissa Jerome – THATCamp Gainesville 2015 http://gainesville2015.thatcamp.org April 24, 2015, at the University of Florida Wed, 14 Oct 2015 08:53:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 Expanding access to historical content http://gainesville2015.thatcamp.org/2015/04/15/expanding-access-to-historical-content/ http://gainesville2015.thatcamp.org/2015/04/15/expanding-access-to-historical-content/#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2015 19:34:17 +0000 http://gainesville2015.thatcamp.org/?p=232 Continue reading →]]>

In August of 2013, the UF George A Smathers Libraries received a $325,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to digitize 100,000 pages of historic newspapers. The UF libraries are working in conjunction with the library system at the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras to participate in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a program created from a partnership between the NEH and the Library of Congress. As part of our participation in the program we are digitizing newspapers from both Florida and Puerto Rico that were published between 1836 and 1922. With this session I hope to inform you of what the project entails, the overall process, as well as update you on our progress thus far.

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