The Kansas Historical Society has been awarded funding by the National Endowment for the Humanities to participate in the National Digital Newspaper Program.The Historical Society will receive $259,354 to digitize 100,000 pages of Kansas newspapers, dating from 1860 to 1922. Kansas is one of seven new states being brought into the program in 2009, bringing the total number of participating states to 22.Launched in 2005, NDNP is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress to provide enhanced access to U.S. newspapers. In 2007 the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress unveiled the program’s Web resource, Chronicling America (chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/), which is a searchable online database that contains more than 1 million pages published between 1880 and 1922 from 11 states and the District of Columbia and represents the news from more than 75 different cities and towns across the nation.The Kansas Historical Society was established by the state's newspaper editors in 1875. A virtually complete collection of all Kansas newspapers published from 1875 to the present is available on microfilm or in original form.Historical Society Digital Initiatives Coordinator Michael A. Church said the NDNP funding paves the way to providing greater access to the agency’s newspaper collection. "While the 100,000 pages supported by this project is a tiny fraction of the more than 13,000,000 newspaper pages in our collection published between 1860-1922," Michael Church, Historical Society digital initiatives coordinator, said, "this grant represents a giant step toward our long-term efforts to create a sustainable digital collection of historic Kansas newspapers available online."Digitization will ensure that the state’s newspapers will be available for future generations of researchers. Although the Historical Society is new to the NDNP, it already has a portion of its collections online at kansasmemory.org.
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