Grants Received in 2013
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Thanks to the following granting agencies for their generous support of our digital projects:
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
Funds to participate in DPLA’s National Endowment for the Humanities
grant as a service hub.
Ladd and Katherine Hancher Library Foundation
Grants to digitize historical newspaper issues:
- Various Cedar Hill titles in partnership with the Zula B. Wylie Public Library. See the Cedar Hill newspaper collection.
- The South Jetty in partnership with the Port Aransas Public Library. See the South Jetty collection.
- Various titles in partnership with the Boyce Ditto Public Library. See newspapers from Boyce Ditto Public Library.
National Endowment for the Humanities
A We the People grant to the Oklahoma Historical Society and the UNT
Libraries for the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP),
“Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers.”
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
The UNT Libraries and Texas Historical Commission received a
TexTreasures grant for digitizing applications from their Recorded Texas
Landmarks program. See the Recorded Texas Historic Landmark Files.
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
The UNT Libraries support of TexTreasures grants for Mesquite Public
Library, Lamar University, Bertha Voyer Memorial Library. See materials
from Mesquite Public Library, and Lamar University.
Tocker Foundation
Grants to digitize historical newspaper issues:
- Various county titles in partnership with the Rockdale Public Library.
- The Palacios Beacon in partnership with the Palacios Public Library. See the Palacios Beacon collection.
- Various titles in partnership with the Carson County Library.
- Various titles in partnership with the Kerens Public Library. See the Kerens Tribune collection.
- Various Bosque County titles in partnership with the Bosque County/Meridian Public Library. See the Meridian Tribune collection.
- The Seminole Sentinel in partnership with the Gaines County Library. See the Seminole newspaper collection.
- The Schulenburg Sticker in partnership with the Schulenburg Public Library. See the Schulenburg Sticker collection.
- The Baylor County Banner in partnership with the Baylor County Library. See the Baylor County Banner collection.
- Various papers from Lipscomb in partnership with the Higgins Public Library. See the Lipscomb County newspaper collection.