We’re excited to announce a new tool you might find useful for working with newspaper titles on The Portal to Texas History! This tool is a curated title database, which allows you to see how many years, issues, and pages of a serial publication we have available on the Portal. To access the curated title… Read more »
Posts By: Ana Krahmer
UNT @the 2023 National Digital Newspaper Program Meeting
During the week of September 18, 2023, Ana Krahmer and Tim Gieringer from UNT Libraries’ Digital Newspaper Unt represented UNT in the 2023 National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) annual meeting, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). This annual meeting is an opportunity for NEH awardees to discuss strategies for preserving newspapers on… Read more »
National Endowment for the Humanities Awards UNT Libraries for a Seventh Round of the National Digital Newspaper Program
Awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities to UNT Libraries, a seventh grant round, awarded on 9/1/2023 in the amount of $203,140, will span two years and support addition of 100,000 more Texas newspaper pages to Chronicling America, the Library of Congress’ national repository for U.S. newspapers. Texas will add titles from south- and… Read more »
University of North Texas Libraries Receives FY24 TexTreasures Award!
The TexTreasures Competitive Grant Program is awarded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through funds received from the Library Services and Technology Act. Drs. Ana Krahmer and Mark Phillips have received an FY24 TexTreasures grant of $39,998, to fill in newspaper gaps relating to the history of underrepresented Houston communities, including: The Houston… Read more »
Texas Digital Newspaper Program Reaches Huge Milestone!
On July 7, 2023, the Texas Digital Newspaper Program reached 10 million pages of newspapers. These are newspapers digitally preserved, freely accessible, and fully text-searchable in The Portal to Texas History, hosted by University of North Texas Libraries. Who makes the Texas Digital Newspaper Program possible? Encompassing 912,623 newspaper issues, the TDNP collection is built… Read more »
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