The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded UNT Libraries $216,859 for an eighth consecutive round of the National Digital Newspaper Program

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National Endowment for the Humanities: A More Perfect Union

Special thanks to Spencer Houghton, the NDNP graduate student assistant, for his help in editing this announcement. UNT Libraries are pleased to announce that the National Endowment for the Humanities and Library of Congress (LC) have selected us for an eighth, two-year cycle of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). This award, which comes to… Read more »

New Historical Texas Newspapers Available on Chronicling America

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Laredo, Texas--The Future Great Railroad Centre and Grand Gateway of International Commerce.

As part of UNT Libraries’ seventh round of National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) grant funding awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Library of Congress has begun uploading more Texas newspaper issues to Chronicling America, the digital repository for historic U. S. newspapers. This seventh round of funding, focused on building content from… Read more »

TexTreasures 2024-2025 Grants Awarded

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The Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC), in collaboration with the Institute of Museum and Library Services’ Library Services Technology Act funds, offers an annual competitive grants program to libraries across Texas.  This month, TSLAC has announced multiple newspaper digitization grant awards recipients, whose materials will be added to The Portal to Texas History… Read more »

UNT @the 2023 National Digital Newspaper Program Meeting

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Jefferson Building, September 21, 2023

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 »