In 2001 the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah was awarded a Library Services and Technology (LSTA) grant to research and demonstrate a newspaper digitization project. The Library successfully digitized three weekly Utah newspapers for a total of 30,000 pages and developed an effective process that resulted in a second LSTA grant in 2003. That grant application was led by the Utah Academic Library Consortium and digitized another 106,000 pages and 17 new titles. The digitized newspapers in this website may be browsed by issue or searched by keywords, article titles, weddings, deaths, and births.
The Library Services and Technology Act is federal funding allocated by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and administered through the Utah State Library.
In September 2003 the University of Utah and its partner, Brigham Young University were awarded a $479,000 National Leadership Grant from IMLS. With matching funds the total grant is $1,020,000. It will support the Utah Digital Newspapers Program through September 2005, allowing us to add 240,000 more pages of digital newspapers. For more information please read the grant proposal.
In May 2005 the University of Utah was awarded a $352,693 National Digital Newspaper Program grant from the National Endowment of Humanities. With matching funds the total grant is $440,866. The grant provides for digitization of over 100,000 pages of newspapers which will be included in the Library of Congress' Chronicling America; Historic American Newspapers collection, as well as our Utah Digital Newspapers collection.
Commercial partners in this project include iArchives Inc., and DiMeMa Inc. whose CONTENTdm® digital collections software powers this website.
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