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INP Team Completes Field Work! |
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The INP team recently completed inventorying newspaper collections in INP Cataloging Region 3! Completion of this region meets our goal of identifying and locating Illinois newspapers found throughout the state.
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Preservation Microfilming Update |
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INP preservation microfilming is in full swing. Check out our new microfilm web page listing every title we've microfilmed to date. New titles are being added every month. All INP-produced microfilm is available from the UIUC Library via interlibrary loan.
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INP @ ALPL |
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INP catalogers are busy working with the Newspaper Microfilm Collection housed at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield. ALPL is the state's largest repository of Illinois newspapers on microfilm. The Library continues to microfilm current and historical Illinois newspapers. Our goal is to update catalog records and our INP Database to reflect ALPL's microfilming activities.
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Help Us Spread the Word about the INP! |
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We have created an informational flyer about the INP that can be posted in your institution. Copies of this flyer are available for printing here.
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The Illinois Newspaper Project (INP) is part of the U.S. Newspaper Program (USNP), a cooperative effort between the states and the federal government designed to identify, catalog and preserve on microfilm the nation's historic newspaper heritage. The USNP is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and administered by the Library of Congress.
The INP team travels throughout Illinois inventorying and cataloging collections held by libraries and repositories, private organizations, and individuals. Newspapers that have not already been preserved on microfilm are filmed to create a permanent record of this vanishing material.
The goal of the project is to facilitate access to Illinois newspapers. We host a web-based searchable database of all newspapers discovered and preserved through the project. All microfilm produced for INP is made available to Illinois citizens through interlibrary loan.
Since its establishment in 1987, the INP has been staffed by librarians from the Illinois State Historical Library (ISHL), the Chicago Historical Society (CHS), and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library. The ISHL, now the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library (ALPL), participated from 1987 to 1995. The CHS, now the Chicago History Museum (CHM), has worked on the project since 1989 in the 19 northernmost Illinois counties. The UIUC Library has been responsible for central and southern Illinois counties since June 1995.
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