Apologies for cross-posting: Posted at the request of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Preservation and Access Request for Proposals-Cooperative Agreements for the National Digital Newspaper Program (A Partnership between NEH and the Library of Congress) URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/ndnp.html Program Overview · Award amount: up to $400,000 · Deadline for submission: November 1, 2007 · Award announcement: June 2008 · Grant period: 2 years beginning July 2008 NEH is soliciting proposals from institutions to participate in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). Ultimately, over a period of approximately 20 years, NDNP will create a national, digital resource of historically significant newspapers from all the states and U.S. territories published between 1836 and 1922. This searchable database will be permanently maintained at the Library of Congress (LC) and be freely accessible via the Internet. [See the beta prototype Web site, Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers at http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/ .] An accompanying national newspaper directory of bibliographic and holdings information on the Web site will direct users to newspaper titles available in all types of formats. LC will also digitize and contribute to the NDNP database a significant number of newspaper pages drawn from its own collections during the course of this partnership between NEH and the Library. The NDNP will be implemented in several phases, gradually extending its chronological coverage. Since 2005, awards to state projects are supporting the selection and digitization of titles published in California, Florida, Kentucky, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, Texas, Utah, and Virginia between 1880 and 1910. The Endowment intends to fund projects in all states and U.S. territories provided that sufficient funds allocated for this purpose are available. One organization within each U.S. state or territory will receive an award to collaborate with relevant state partners in this effort. Previously funded projects will be eligible for continued support to digitize pages from new decades, as the program increases its chronological span. During this phase of NDNP, successful applicants will select newspapers-published in their state in English between 1880 and 1922-and convert, primarily from microfilm, over a period of two years, approximately 100,000 pages into digital files, according to the technical guidelines (http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/pdf/NDNP_200810TechNotes.pdf) outlined by the Library of Congress. NDNP builds on the foundation established by an earlier NEH initiative: the United States Newspaper Program (USNP). Since 1982, the Endowment has supported a cooperative, national effort to locate, catalog, and preserve on microfilm American newspapers published from the 18th century to the present. NEH has funded newspaper projects in all the fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. When completed in 2009, USNP will have provided bibliographic control to widely scattered newspapers and have preserved on microfilm (to consistent national standards) selected titles from this vulnerable corpus. LC has provided technical assistance for the USNP since its inception. NEH expects to award two-year cooperative agreements (of up to $400,000 each), depending on the availability of funds. The Guidelines for the Request for Proposals are located at: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/ndnp.html . LC*s technical guidelines are found at: http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/pdf/NDNP_200810TechNotes.pdf . For information about the application process, contact the Division of Preservation and Access at 202-606-8570 or e-mail at [log in to unmask] The postal address is: National Digital Newspaper Program Division of Preservation and Access Room 411 National Endowment for the Humanities 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington , DC 20506 Hearing-impaired applicants can contact NEH via TDD at 1-866-372-2930. All questions relating to the technical guidelines should be directed to LC staff at [log in to unmask]