The Oregon Digital Newspaper Program has been awarded grant funds of $324,900 to digitize 100,000 pages of Oregon newspapers over the next two years. The grant is through the National Digital Newspaper Program, a division of the National Endowment for the Humanities. ODNP got its start with several rounds of NDNP funding from 2009-2015, and has been operating on a cost-recovery model since then. The additional funding will supercharge ODNP’s productivity, since we already digitize about 100,000 pages of historical content per year.

The NDNP grant award will help us expand access to a range of different Oregon newspapers. We will focus on digitizing newspapers from the labor movement, faith communities, and racial, ethnic and linguistic minorities, as well as enhancing geographic representation from Oregon counties that are currently underrepresented in Historic Oregon Newspapers. An advisory board will help make the selections for the specific titles.

Read more here: https://library.uoregon.edu/news/oregon-digital-newspaper-program-awarded-neh-funding.