In the Digital Age, Preserving the Print of the Past

For the past 20 years, a project at the Library of Virginia in Richmond has been laboring to find and preserve a form of media communication that has been waning: Virginia’s newspapers. Under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Virginia Newspaper Project (VNP) was estab...

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Main Author: John Connolly
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Virginia Tech Libraries 2013-10-01
Series:Virginia Libraries
Online Access:https://virginialibrariesjournal.org/articles/545
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description For the past 20 years, a project at the Library of Virginia in Richmond has been laboring to find and preserve a form of media communication that has been waning: Virginia’s newspapers. Under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Virginia Newspaper Project (VNP) was established at the Library of Virginia in 1993 and continues its work today though it has evolved in order to take full advantage of the latest technology.
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