OCLC picked to digitize historic Washington newspapers

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The Washington State Library (WSL) recently awarded Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC) the contract to digitize 100,000 newspaper images from microfilm. The contract is part of WSL's National Digital Newspaper (NDNP) grant, recently awarded by the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH), to digitize historic Washington newspapers.

OCLC has a long history of working with historic newspapers and currently maintains the database of the U.S. Newspaper Program (USNP), an initiative to microfilm newspapers published in the United States from the 18th century to the present; the foundation for NDNP.

Titles that were published within the 1880-1922 timeframe will be selected by the WA-NDNP selection committee and microfilm will be evaluated by WSL staff before it is sent to OCLC for digitization and conversion to full-text, searchable files. The output files will then be evaluated by WSL staff to assure quality before a copy of the files are sent to the Library of Congress and published within the Chronicling America website.

OCLC has worked with other NDNP awardees and offers experience with and knowledge of the rigorous NDNP grant specifications. We look forward to working with OCLC on a project of this scope and importance.
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