Digitizing Newspaper Archives

10/14/2025

Another new digital archive made possible by grant support -

The Tipp City Public Library is proud to announce the launch of its newly digitized newspaper archive…

10/12/2025

Fantastic story about a first-ever archival exchange.

09/29/2025

Historical organizations and museums are using creative ways and available resources to give depth to their archive collections -

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09/29/2025

Grants are making more and more digital preservation projects possible across the US. Check out local historical preservation funders and philanthropic organizations that can help you reach your digitization goals.

In Portage, the Clerk Archives Department, a local unit operated by the Porter County Clerk of the Circuit Cou...

09/15/2025

The suit alleges that Google uses material without paying for it.

09/11/2025

✍️ History is being preserved one word at a time! Residents at a Baltimore senior living facility are teaming up with local high school students to transcribe centuries-old documents — connecting generations while keeping history alive. The seniors are able to read the cursive, and the teens have the tech skills to make this project really special.

Click the link to read about it (an email is required to access) https://thedailyrecord.com/2025/09/08/springwell-seniors-students-preserve-history/

Judge skewers $1.5B Anthropic settlement with authors in pirated books case over AI training SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge on Monday skewered a $1.5 billion settlement between artificial intelligence company Anthropic and authors who allege nearly half a million books had been illegally pirated ...

08/29/2025

Yet another story about a community's news archive being in trouble. ArchiveInABox can help with situations like this one: https://inewsource.org/2025/08/27/funding-cuts-threaten-coronado-library-local-newspaper-collection/

The UC Riverside-maintained newspaper archive lost funding, so Coronado Library hopes to bring it in house.

08/27/2025

Unrestricted grant awards -- amazing news for nearly 1,000 Washington arts and culture organizations!

TwispWorks, a USFS ranger station in Methow Valley that was transformed into a hub for economic and creative development, is among the organizations

08/27/2025

Flemish online historical newspaper archives are growing with more being digitized. It's great news for researchers and genealogists.

From today, members of the public can consult over 900 historical newspaper titles from across Flanders via hetarchief.be. The archive includes over 180,000 editions dating back as far as 1814. The newspapers include “Gazetje van Thielt”, “De onafhankelijke der provincie Limburg” and “Gaze...

08/26/2025

Chronicling America – NEH Announces 2025 Awards to 10 States in the National Digital Newspaper Program

10 states states will add digitized titles as part of the funded project. The 2025 award total is $3 million. All 50 states, including DC, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands have newspapers on the Chronicling America site.

Check out the details for each of the 10 states receiving a grant at https://theancestorhunt.com/blog/neh-announces-2025-awards-for-continued-digitization-of-u-s-newspapers-as-part-of-the-national-digital-newspaper-program/

08/18/2025

Success is ensured when organizations come together with a common goal of digitally preserving and providing searchable access to community history. https://tinyurl.com/dmhawn5r

Suzanne Beebe, right center, who is the main community liaison for the Greater Lowell Franco American Digital Archive, laughs at the formal launch while speaking with Doris Cote, left. Cote is featured in the video "One Family, Three Women: A Tale of Franco American Lowell."

08/14/2025

This article is out of Canada but addresses a question we get all the time - how does one remove their name from newspaper archives? Interesting info in this read: https://www.newstrail.com/how-to-legally-erase-your-name-from-court-and-newspaper-archives/

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