HONOLULU — In order to preserve newspapers dating back a couple hundred years, The University of Hawai‘i received a grant to preserve and digitize editions. This week, the UH Manoa Library received $265,018 from the National Endowment for the Humanities
HONOLULU — In order to preserve newspapers dating back a couple hundred years, The University of Hawai‘i received a grant to preserve and digitize editions.
This week, the UH Manoa Library received $265,018 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize and upload Honolulu Star-Advertiser predecessor newspapers including the Pacific Commercial Advertiser, dating from 1856 to 1921 and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin dating from 1917 to 1922 on the Chronicling America website.
Over the next two years, the third phase of the “Hawai‘i Digital Newspaper Project,” the library will digitize almost 100,000 English-language newspaper pages, according to a press release.
On the Chronicling America website at http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov, users are free to browse and search digitized versions of American newspapers and read essays about them.
Over the next 20 years, the National Digital Newspaper Program will digitize historically significant newspapers published between 1836 and 1922 in all U.S. states and territories.
NDNP is a partnership between the NEH and the Library of Congress. The former provides funding for the program, and the latter will permanently maintain the website.
From 2008 to 2012, the NEH awarded $610,920 to UH Manoa Library to digitize more than 200,000 pages from 13 Hawai‘i newspaper titles dated between 1836 to 1922.
