Laura Weakly, metadata encoding specialist with University Libraries, is guiding the university’s long-term commitment to lead the United States Newspaper Program and the National Digital Newspaper Program for the state of Nebraska. With funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the university’s Center for Digital Research in the Humanities will select, digitize and send to the Library of Congress approximately 100,000 pages of Nebraska newspapers published between 1854 and 1963. They will be included in Chronicling America, a website providing access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages.
