The California Newspaper Project is an 18 year effort by the CBSR to identify, describe and preserve California newspapers. Close to 9,000 California newspapers were inventoried in over 14,000 repositories throughout the state, 1.5 million pages of California newspapers were preserved and made available on microfilm, and 100,000 rolls of negative microfilm rolls are being processed for permanent storage at the UC Regional Library Storage Facilities.
The Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands (KB) initiated the Databank of Digital Daily newspapers project at the end of 2006. The project will realize the large-scale digitization of Dutch national, regional, local and colonial newspapers and make these freely accessible on the Internet. The Databank of Digital Daily newspapers will contain eight million pages, from the first newspaper dated 1618 to the newspapers of the twentieth century.
This is the Invitation to Tender of the public tendering procedure with reference 2007/S 216-262744,
falling within the scope of the Dutch Public Procurement Decree (Besluit aanbestedingsregels voor
overheidsopdrachten; BAO, which is based on European Procurement Directive 2004/18/EC) for the
provision of services for compiling the Databank of Digital Daily Newspapers.
The National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC), is a long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of all U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages. Supported by NEH, this rich digital resource will be developed and permanently maintained at the Library of Congress. An NEH grant program will fund the contribution of content from, eventually, all U.S. states and territories.
The National Library of Australia, in collaboration the Australian State and Territory libraries, has commenced a
program to digitise out of copyright newspapers.