The Ladd & Katherine Hancher Library Foundation has awarded three Texas public libraries with grant awards totaling $76,340.00 to digitize their community newspapers.

The award recipients are:

• The La Porte Public Library to digitize the La Porte Chronicle
• The Pilot Point Public Library to digitize the Pilot Point Post-Signal
• The Crowley Public Library, to digitize the Crowley Star

The Digital Newspaper Unit sends its congratulations to these three libraries, along with a special thanks to the publishers of these newspapers for supporting newspaper preservation in Texas.  The Texas Digital Newspaper Program is the largest, continually growing, single-state, open access digital repository of newspapers in the U.S., and the hard work of Texas community libraries and publishers is what makes building access to this rich collection possible.