Illinois Newspaper Project
    

Preserving Illinois Heritage as part of the U.S. Newspaper Program and the National Digital Newspaper Program




Background
bullet Project Staff
bullet History of the INP
bullet History of Illinois Newspapers

Our Work
bullet Identify Newspapers
bullet Catalog Newspapers
bullet Microfilm Newspapers
bullet Digitize Newspapers

Explore
bullet INP Database
Newspaper titles we've found throughout Illinois.
bullet Participant Locator
Places we've visited
along the way.
bullet Gallery
A sampling of some treasures we've discovered.

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INP Headlines

bullet University of Illinois Receives NDNP Grant Award!
In June 2009, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library received funding under the National Endowment for the Humanities' (NEH) National Digital Newspaper Program to digitize culturally significant Illinois newspapers. Titles digitized as part of this program will be contributed to the Library of Congress' Chronicling America web site. More info

bullet Preservation Microfilming Update
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.

bullet INP @ ALPL
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.

bullet Help Us Spread the Word about the INP!
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.





About the INP

The Illinois Newspaper Project (INP) is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and administered by the Library of Congress as part of the U.S. Newspaper Program (USNP) and the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). Both programs involve a cooperative effort between the states and the federal government designed to preserve the nation's historic newspaper heritage.

Under the USNP, the INP team travels throughout Illinois inventorying and cataloging collections held by libraries and repositories, private organizations, and individuals. We host a web-based searchable database of all newspapers discovered and preserved through the project. Newspapers that have not already been preserved on microfilm are filmed to create a permanent record of this vanishing material. All microfilm produced for INP is made available to Illinois citizens through interlibrary loan.

Under the NDNP, the INP team is charged with selecting and digitizing historically significant Illinois titles to be aggregated and permanently maintained by the Library of Congress via the Chronicling America database. 100,000 pages of Illinois newsprint published before 1923 will be digitized during every two year cycle of grant funding.

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), worked on the project from 1989-2009 in the 19 northernmost Illinois counties. The UIUC Library has been responsible for central and southern Illinois counties since June 1995 and currently hosts the staff for all aspects of the project.


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