Our First Full-Color Newspapers from the New Scanner!

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All issues of The Meridian Tribune from 1935 have been uploaded as the Texas Digital Newspaper Program’s first newspaper title digitized on our new scanner.  Master images are 24-bit, full-color TIFFs, from which OCR has been generated and derivatives are viewable as full newspapers, such as this issue from April 5, 1935, on The Portal… Read more »

The National Endowment for the Humanities Announces Newest NDNP Grant Recipients

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The National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) is: “. . . a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC), is a long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages. Supported by NEH, this rich digital resource… Read more »

The Digital Newspaper Team Welcomes its Newest Member

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 The Digital Newspaper Team welcomed its newest member this week when the A0 planetary scanner went online.  Last week, the newspaper team attended a one-day training workshop to learn how to scan newspapers on the scanner.  This week, we are scheduling the first projects to be scanned on it.  The planetary scanner can digitize newspapers… Read more »

Lipscomb County, Texas

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Minutes from Oklahoma, in the corner of the Texas Panhandle, lies the unassuming Lipscomb County, Texas, housing around 3300 people spread across 932 square miles.  The Higgins Public Library in Lipscomb County collaborated with the Wolf Creek Heritage Museum in Lipscomb and UNT Libraries in Denton to apply for a Tocker grant in January of… Read more »