An MLIS student reports on her experience working on the National Digital Newspaper Program
The Washington State Library participates in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and Library of Congress. Shawn Schollmeyer, the NDNP coordinator for our state, has had the pleasure of working this past year with two recent MLIS graduate students at the University of Washington, Rachel Foshag and Loryn Lestz. Over the last two years Loryn and Rachel worked on the evaluation of the newspapers for condition and missing pages as well as…