Vermont Digital Newspaper Project
About the Project
The Vermont digital Newspaper Project is part of the
National Digital Newspaper Program, developed by the
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library
of Congress. The University
of Vermont Libraries were awarded funding from NEH to work
collaboratively with partners in the Vermont
Department of Libraries, the Ilsley
Public Library of Middlebury, and the Vermont
Historical Society to select, digitize, and make available up to
100,000 pages of Vermont newspapers, published between 1836 and 1922,
from the microfilm collections of the Vermont Department of Libraries
and the University of Vermont. Under its first Phase 1 grant (July 1,
2010-Aug. 31, 2012), the VTDNP contributed nearly 130,000 pages of
historical Vermont newspaper content to the Library of Congress'
Chronicling America
database. The VTDNP
received continuation funding (Sept. 1, 2012-Aug. 31, 2014) to
digitize an additional 100,000 pages of newspapers.
The Project builds upon work of the NEH-funded Vermont
Newspaper Project which, from 1997 to 2001, identified,
cataloged, and microfilmed close to 1,000 historical Vermont
newspaper titles and nearly 3,000 local holdings from over 100
libraries, historical societies, museums, and other repositories
throughout the state.
