NH Digital Newspaper Project Needs Your Help

Newspapers Coming Off Press (LC photo)

The NH Digital Newspaper Project has put together a survey to gather information about digitized newspaper collections across the state of New Hampshire, including those held by libraries, academic institutions, historical societies, and other cultural organizations. This survey is designed to gather information about digitized newspaper collections across the state of New Hampshire. The data you provide will be shared with Library of Congress National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), in order to enhance and improve access to New Hampshire papers beyond those already digitized for the NDNP.

For the purposes of this survey we define digitized newspaper collections as free-access, online newspapers (both historical and currently published) that have been digitized from paper copies or issued as electronic editions of print newspapers. This primarily means historic issues, although PDFs of current print editions, if they are freely available to the public, can also be included. Born-digital content (news sites, e.g. washingtonpost.com) which may or may not be representative of print content, should NOT be included in the survey.

In the Fall we plan to conduct a separate survey to identify paper and microfilm holdings of NH newspapers.

 This survey will remain open until Sunday, August 18, 2024. We would like to have this survey completed only ONCE by any one NH organization.

 About the New Hampshire Digital Newspaper Project

The New Hampshire Digital Newspaper Project (NHDNP) is a National Endowment for the Humanities funded effort to select, digitize, and make publicly available historic New Hampshire newspapers under the auspices of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). The NDNP is a long-term partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress to develop a free, searchable database of U.S. Newspapers from all states and territories. The NHDNP is a public-private collaboration between partner institutions through the state of New Hampshire: Dartmouth College, New Hampshire State Library, New Hampshire Historical Society, and University of New Hampshire. This coalition is dedicated to responsible stewardship of the state’s cultural heritage and making it open access and freely accessible to all.

Questions about this survey should be directed to Mary Russell, NH State Library (mary.a.russell@dncr.nh.gov) or Toben Traver, Dartmouth College (toben@dartmouth.edu).

 Complete the survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NHnewsDIGITAL24

If you don't have a digital newspaper collection and want to let us know that, you can complete the survey in about 1 minute--we included "we don't have any" answer options.