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NEH Funds to Digitize Historic Tennessee Newspapers While the University of Tennessee (UT) libraries are moving ahead with the ‘Tennessee Newspaper Digitization Project’, they have received additional funds from National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to complete the third phase of the digital preservation project. As per latest reports, NEH has awarded $345,000 for the digitization of 100,000 pages (phase III) of Tennessee’s microfilmed newspapers. These newspapers dating from the late 19th century to 1922 are scanned and indexed to create an online digital archive of historically significant newspapers. To date, the project has completed the electronic conversion of around 200,000 pages from Tennessee newspapers dating back to 1849. The project is done as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program that aims to digitize historically important newspapers, published in the United States between 1836 and 1922. Newspapers in digital format, contributed by state projects can be freely accessed on the website of the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America.
The Tennessee Newspaper Digitization Project The project to digitize dozens of urban and rural newspapers is in its third phase now. The first phase of the project was focused on the civil war and reconstruction era. The second phase (2012-14) of the project focuses on newspapers published during the Gilded Age (1870s to 1900). Phase three of the TNDP will begin in September 2014 and will continue for two years.
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The newspaper titles for the project are selected by a statewide panel comprising historians, scholars, librarians and genealogists. The online collection of historic newspapers is a great aid for students, genealogists, and scholars to educate students regarding early times. Recently there has been another report regarding the digitization of historic newspapers in Indiana. The process is done with the objective to create a resource pool for Indiana that reflects the state as well as local history. The main purposes behind these initiatives are as follows: 
Can provide a great deal of information about past projects
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Facilitates researchers to access the information they want
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Apart from historical knowledge, people can also get a glimpse into the past life through advertisements of local businesses
Digitization of newspapers is somewhat different from other digitization projects, as it demands specific technologies and tools. The size and dimensions of original newspapers make it difficult to be presented online; besides, the number of words or the volume of text in the typical newspaper page is greater than that of a book page.
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