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    Historic Maryland Newspapers Project Advisory Board Meeting Fall 2020
    (2020-10-28) McClanahan, Pamela A.; McElrath, Douglas; Pike, Robin C.
    This presentation was prepared for the meeting of the Historic Maryland Newspapers Project (HMNP) Advisory Board and related stakeholders held on October 28, 2020. The HMNP is the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) project in the state of Maryland, and is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The purpose of this meeting was to update the Advisory Board on the project progress and to determine title selection for Phase 5 of the grant (2020-2022).
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    Historic Maryland Newspapers Project Advisory Board Meeting 2019
    (2019-04-18) McElrath, Douglas; Pike, Robin C.; McClanahan, Pamela A.
    This presentation was prepared for the meeting of the Historic Maryland Newspapers Project (HMNP) Advisory Board and related stakeholders held on April 18, 2019. The HMNP is the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) project in the state of Maryland, and is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. This project is in its seventh year and fourth grant phase. The purpose of this meeting was to update the Advisory Board on the project progress and to brainstorm outreach and programming ideas.
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    Using Chronicling America: Genealogy
    (2016) Pike, Robin C.; McElrath, Douglas
    This brochure is to be distributed by institutions, and to be used to assist genealogists in using Chronicling America, the Library of Congress database that hosts newspapers. This brochure was created by the Co-Principal Investigators of the Historic Maryland Newspapers Project, so it has a focus on Maryland newspapers.
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    Maryland Digital Newspapers
    (2017-06-14) Pike, Robin C.; Wack, Rebecca E.
    A discussion of the United States Newspaper Program, and how that led to the National Digital Newspaper Program. The progress and activities of the Historic Maryland Newspapers Project, and a demonstration on how to use Chronicling America. The progress made in hosting newspapers at the University of Maryland, College Park Libraries, and how we hope to turn this into the Maryland Digital Newspaper Repository.
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    Maryland Newspapers in Chronicling America
    (2017-06-08) Pike, Robin C.
    The Historic Maryland Newspaper project, a National Endowment for the Humanities grant project, has digitized over 211,000 Maryland newspaper pages since 2012, and is currently in its third grant to digitize more than 100,000 additional pages. The newspapers are ingested into Chronicling America, the Library of Congress database, which is freely accessible to the public, and now contains over 11.7 million newspaper pages published across the US. This presentation will demonstrate several features of Chronicling America and other extras so that librarians can use this resource in reference inquiries or other projects.
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    Delaware and Maryland in the News
    (2017-05-12) Pike, Robin C.; Olney-Zide, Molly
    One-hour workshop presented at the 2017 Maryland Library Association and Delaware Library Association Joint Library Conference. Delaware and Maryland in the News will discuss the National Endowment for the Humanities National Digital Newspaper Program and the two states' newspaper digitization projects. You will learn how to use the Chronicling America database for different levels of research, and some educational and outreach tools to promote this resource.
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    Historic Maryland Newspapers Project Advisory Board Meeting
    (2016-11-17) Pike, Robin C.; McElrath, Douglas
    This presentation was prepared for the meeting of the Historic Maryland Newspapers Project (HMNP) Advisory Board and and related stakeholders held on November 17, 2016. The HMNP is the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) project in the state of Maryland, and is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. This project is in its fifth year and third grant phase. The purpose of this meeting was to update the Advisory Board on the project progress and to brainstorm outreach and programming ideas.
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    The Historic Maryland Newspapers Project
    (2016-06-08) Caringola, Elizabeth
    This poster addresses frequently asked questions regarding the Historic Maryland Newspapers Project, such as "What is the National Digital Newspaper Program?" and "How are titles selected for digitization?" It also provides information about the project's funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), newspaper titles digitized by the project to date, and the future of the project. This poster was presented at the UMD Libraries Research & Innovative Practice Forum, McKeldin Library, June 8, 2016.