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The Library of Congress is pleased to announce a new Web site,
http://www.loc.gov/ndnp, providing an overview and technical
specifications for the development phase of the National Digital
Newspaper Program (NDNP). This program, a partnership between the
National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress
(LC), is a long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable
database of all U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and
digitization of select historic pages.  Supported by NEH, this rich
digital resource will be developed and permanently maintained at the
Library of Congress. An NEH grant program will fund the contribution of
content from, eventually, all U.S. states and territories. 

An initial development phase will run through 2007, and will include
content from 6 NEH state awardees (University of California, Riverside;
University of Florida Libraries, Gainesville; University of Kentucky
Libraries, Lexington; New York Public Library, New York City; University
of Utah, Salt Lake City; and Library of Virginia, Richmond) providing
100,000 pages each of historic material published between 1900-1910. In
addition, the Library of Congress will contribute 100,000 pages from its
own historic collections, representing the District of Columbia.

Program information for the National Digital Newspaper Program is
available from the Library of Congress's Preservation Web site:
http://www.loc.gov/preserv/ . 

Please direct any questions regarding this Web site to the LC NDNP
program contacts at:
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Laura Gottesman
Reference Specialist
Digital Reference Team
The Library of Congress