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National Digital Newspaper Program

A partnership between the Library & the National Endowment for the Humanities

About the NDNP

The National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC), is a long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages. Supported by NEH, this rich digital resource will be developed and permanently maintained at the Library of Congress. An NEH award program will fund the contribution of content from, eventually, all U.S. states and territories.

Learn more about the Library's role in the NDNP

See what states are participating in the program

Guidelines & Resources

Information on technical specifications for NDNP, best practices, publications, technical premises and more.

Read the most recent technical guidelines for applicants (PDF, 387 KB)

Visit Guidelines & Resources for links to Content Selection Criteria, Writing Guidelines, and other useful resources.

meta|morphosis

meta|morphosis, developed and hosted by the University of Kentucky Libraries (external link), provides self-paced video tutorials, quizzes and other resources about digitization of microfilm to NDNP specifications to help prepare non-NDNP states for inclusion in, and digitization beyond, NDNP.

Go to meta|morphosis (external link)

Newspaper Navigator

Newspaper Navigator is an experimental web application from LC Labs that utilizes machine learning techniques to let you search and browse over 1.56 million photographs extracted from the NDNP's Chronicling America online newspaper collection.

Search historic newspaper photos with Newspaper Navigator

Learn more about the Newspaper Navigator Project

Last Updated: 09/09/2024