1. Michigan Digital Newspaper Project Contributing 100 thousand pages in Chronicling America http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/

2. National Digital Newspaper Project  Digitizing microfilmed newspapers (1836 to 1922) from across the nation  Hosting the newspapers at Chronicling America database maintained by the Library of Congress  NEH Funded with LC Technical Standards

3. Michigan Digital Newspaper Project  2012 Awardee: Clarke Historical Library  Microfilm Contributors: Clarke Historical Library & Library of Michigan  Titles selected by appointed committee members following NEH/LC guidelines

4. Program Supporters Selection Committee Partners  Library of Michigan  Central Michigan University: Clarke Historical Library Vendors  iArchives  Stover Imaging Frank Boles  Director, Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University Leonard Coombs  Acquisitions Archivist, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan Kevin Driedger  Librarian, Library of Michigan Michael Federspiel  Retired high school social studies teacher Cynthia Grostick  President, Michigan Genealogical Council Mark Harvey  State Archivist of Michigan Martin M. Hershock  Professor of History, University of Michigan-Dearborn Eli Neiburger  Associate Director for IT & Production, Ann Arbor District Library Erik Nordberg  Executive Director, Michigan Humanities Council and former Archivist, Michigan Technological University Marcus Robyns  University Archivist, Northern Michigan University Ken Winter  Retired editor, Petoskey Evening News, and former president of the Michigan Press Association.

5. Michigan Newspapers TitlePublisher Location Alpena Weekly Argus.Alpena, Mich. The Copper Country Evening News.Calumet, Mich. The Calumet News.Calumet, Mich. *Northern Tribune.Cheboygan, Mich. *Constantine Republican.Constantine, Mich. Dearborn Independent.Dearborn, Mich. *The Cass County Republican.Dowagiac, Mich. Charlevoix County Herald.East Jordan, Mich. East Saginaw Courier.East Saginaw, Mich. *The Grand Haven News.Grand Haven, Mich. *Grand River Times.Grand Haven, Mich. The Owosso Times.Owosso, Mich. The True Northerner.Paw Paw, Mich. *Weekly Expositor.Brockway Centre, Mich. The Yale Expositor.Yale, St. Clair County, Mich. *Ypsilanti Sentinel.Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.

6. Technical Specifications National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) Technical Guidelines http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/guidelines/archive/guidelines1213.html Original Scans  Created from a clean second generation duplicate silver negative that at 8-bit grayscale with a resolution of 400 dpi, in Uncompressed TIFF 6.0. Derivatives  Create a JPEG 2000 and a PDF file for each page.  Incorporate appropriate XMP metadata per NDNP Technical Guidelines for each file. OCR  Create text output in UTF-8 character set.  Create OCR text file with bounding-box coordinate data at the word level.  Produce OCR text files that conform to the ALTO XML schema, version 2.0 or greater. Metadata  Create title identifier using the Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN) for that title, normalized to MARC21 standard.  Produce a unique identifier for each issue using LCCN, Issue Date and Edition order.  Produce a unique identifier for each page using LCCN, Issue Date, Edition, Order and Record Sequence number.  Create additional title level metadata related to the title runs digitized and delivered.  Create issue/edition metadata for all known issue/edition occurrences for issues/editions known to be published but not available as a digital asset, create a record for that issue/edition and use the Issue Present Indicator to indicate the issue/edition of the record described is not available.  Create page metadata for all known page occurrences for page known to be published but not available as a digital asset, create a record for that page and use the Page Present Indicator to indicate that the page the record describes is not available.  Produce reel metadata objects that describe individual scanned reels and filmed targets.  Deliver all digital assets and Metadata Encoded Transmission Schema (METS) object structure according to an XML Batch template structure as per NDNP specifications.

7. Help Wanted Looking for online newspapers in public or fee based websites. If you know of any please email the titles and website link to Kim Hagerty at kim.hagerty@cmich.edu

8. Useful Links US Newspaper Directory http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/titles/ List of online newspaper archives http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_onlin e_newspaper_archives#Michigan Michigan Newspaper Family History http://www.michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan/ The Growth of Newspapers Across the U.S.: 1690-2011 http://www.stanford.edu/group/ruralwest/cgi- bin/drupal/visualizations/us_newspapers 100 Years Ago Today http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov Newspaper Topics http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/topics/topics.html EDSITEment! The best of the humanities on the web http://edsitement.neh.gov/ Clarke Historical Library http://www.clarke.cmich.edu National History Day http://www.nhd.org/

9. Clarke Historical Library Central Michigan University Kim Hagerty Project Manager Clarke Historical Library kim.hagerty@cmich.edu (989) 774-4420 Contact Us!