Vermont Digital Newspaper Project: From Reel to Real

Abstract

In the summer of 2010, Vermont began formal participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program with the launch of the Vermont Digital Newspaper Project (VDNP). Libraries, repositories, and other organizations from across the state partnered to select and digitize historical state newspapers to be made freely available on the Library of Congress website. Birdie MacLennan described previous projects that facilitated the development of the VDNP, and highlighted the preliminary labor involved in planning a large-scale digitization project and preparing the grant application. Tom McMurdo described the logistics of selecting a digitization vendor, preparing the materials for digitization, and then reviewing the finished product.

Keywords:

• historic newspapers
• digitization
• Vermont history
• Vermont newspapers