The document summarizes a meeting about Nevada's National Digital Newspaper Program project. It discusses the various partners involved, including the National Endowment for the Humanities, Library of Congress, UNLV Libraries, and Nevada State Library. It outlines the workflow from title selection and duplication to digitization, quality review, and submission. Statistics provided include over 68,000 pages collated from 6 batches, representing 28 titles from 1863-1923. Examples of searchable digitized newspapers are shown. Future plans include expanding the website and conducting outreach.

1. Images: shoes The Silver State 07.01.1903; show Gold Hill Daily News 05.28.1873; hats Walker Lake Bulletin10.28.1904; the Silver State News 06.20.1907; music Yerington Times 1911, Tutt’s WLB 1888-03-07
Partner Meeting Carson City
Nevada | National Digital Newspaper Program | June 19’

2. NDNP: It takes a village
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Library of
Congress, & UNLV Libraries
• Principle investigators
• Cory Lampert, Peter Michel, & Jason Vaughan
• Project staff
• Carrie Stewart – Project Coordinator
& Stacey Fott – Project Technician
• Digitization Vendor
• Apex (Virginia & India)
• Nevada State Library, Archives, & Records
• Heather Hahn and John Warren

3. Workflow:
• Title selection
• Advisory Board (historians, archivists, educators, librarians, scholars & writers…)
• Duplication
• Nevada State Library
• Collation
• Project staff @UNLV
• Digitization
• Apex
• Quality Review
• Project staff @UNLV
• Submission of data to LoC
• Essays!
• Deposit of reels
• End of the grant
Images: Kerrs The Silver state 1885-01-02; I am The Silver state 08-19-
1913; Nixon 1920-10-19 the silver state; Cat 1889 01 03 the silver state

5. Duplication: Positives and Negatives
Collation: Metadata spreadsheets

6. QR: Quality Review
LCCN ok? Date?

7. Looks good!
1874
Eureka Daily Sentinel

10. Quality Review Part 2: DVV & OCR
Digital Validator and Verification
The DVV!
• Validate is done with our vendor (to ensure technical specs)
• Verify: This verifies that it has been validated.
Important for long term sustainability & when
transferring information from one
system to the next.
OCR!
• The optical character recognition
is checked on 10% of the data
• ENG & columns
e.g., 10,140 * 10%
= 1,014 pages per batch
Eureka daily sentinel. 12 Aug. 1877

11. Submit for approval & hope for this:

12. Project stats currently
• Pages collated: 68,998 (1,097 duplicates)
• Reels collated: 83 reels
• Batches collated: 6 total!
Pages per batch:
Arrowhead 10,033
Bullfrog 16,024
Carlin 9,780
Deeth 14,095
Empire 10,449
Fairview
Gabbs
Hiko
Imlay
Unionville 7,178
NEVADA stats
• 205,653 pages live
• 28 titles
• 50,496 issues
• 49,662 front pages
• Issues from 1863-1923
Project stats ChronAm
1908
1916

14. Image 1889-05-01 The Silver state

15. Ways you never thought
Daily independent. (Elko, Nev.), 14 Oct. 1897. Chronicling America: Historic
American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
<https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020355/1897-10-14/ed-1/seq-
1/>
Morning appeal. (Carson City, Nev.), 13 Feb. 1883. Chronicling America: Historic
American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
<https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86076999/1883-02-13/ed-1/seq-1/>
Yerington Times, 1913-07-12

17. Yerington Times,
1920-06-20
Our website FUTURE!

18. *speaker
transition*
While you wait…
Enjoy a clip
Reno had open 75 saloons AFTER Dry Law
Reno had 50 saloons BEFORE Dry Law
1922-01-21 Eureka Sentinel

19. Demo of searching; live ?
•Stacey Slides here
•Outreach
•Social media
•Museums

20. Outreach
• K-12
• EdChat via Twitter
• 3rd grade Career Day
• Traner Middle School
Reno, NV
• Equipo Academy (Fall)
(grade 6-12)

21. Teaching our newspapers
Images: Nixon The Silver State 05.27.1916; Minstrel Clarence The Silver
State 09.02.1915; Bring Japs The Daily Silver State 06.01.1907;
Whitecaps Walker Lake Bulletin 12.01.1897 ; race suicide WLB 1903;
Black Plague The Silver State 1913.12.02; Negro killed 1899.03.24 The
Silver State; opium dens Morning Appeal 05.15.1883; William in the N
Silver State 07.29.1916; Jap wants out The Daily silver state 04.27.1907;

22. Yerington Times
1919-07-26

23. Statewide Digitization Workshop May 10
• Attendees from:
National Park Service, UNR Libraries, Nevada State Library, Nevada Historical Society, Touro
University, BYU, Nevada Library Cooperative, UNLV Law Library, Las Vegas Clark County Public
Library, Nevada Supreme Court Law Library, UNLV Dept. of Anthropology, and San Jose State
University!
Sessions:
• What is Large-Scale Digitization? - we will try to answer that question and provide some highlights of
the current LSTA grant to digitize 50,000 digital images from the Union Pacific Railroad Collection
• Planning a Digitization Project: Where to Start and Key Decisions - learn the key steps in planning
a digitization project and develop a plan for your collection
• Finding Partners and Funding: Grants and Collaborative Opportunities - learn more about the Library
Services and Technology Act grant program, statewide digitization activities, writing successful grant
applications, and finding collaborative partners
• Online Presentation: Digital Asset Management Options - take a tour of options for getting your
digital content online and out to researchers