Century-old newspapers will soon continue their journey to a new frontier — the Internet.
The LSU Libraries Special Collections division recently received a $285,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to continue a project that has already digitized 100,000 pages of newspaper at the University, according to Athena Jackson, project manager.
The project, called the Digitizing Louisiana Newspapers Project, will put 100,000 more pages online before the end of this phase, which starts at the end of the fall semester. Jackson didn’t specify when the project would finish.
“We applied for the grant in 2009 because LSU houses 99 percent of [Louisiana] newspapers on microfilm,” said Gina Costello, co-director of DNLP. “We knew that we had a very good chance at receiving the books.”
 
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