Volunteers reached an important milestone this week, transferring newspapers from 1943 through 1963 to University of Maryland Libraries (UML). Working under the auspices of the Greenbelt Archive Project the volunteers have been busy preparing old issues of the News Review and its predecessor, the Greenbelt Cooperator, for scanning. These papers will be scanned by a contractor paid with funds from a UML National Endowment for the Humanities grant to digitize historic Maryland newspapers as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program. Many earlier issues of the Cooperator, published from November 1937 through early March 1943, have already been digitized by UML from microfilm copies of the papers and are posted on the Library of Congress Chronicling America website (see https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn89061521/). Following scanning, the newspapers will be returned to Greenbelt for final archiving.
The team is still searching for some issues that are not in the holdings of either the Greenbelt News Review itself or the Greenbelt Library’s Tugwell Collection. Perhaps Greenbelters can help? See box for the Project’s Wish List and instructions on page 1
of the November 29 News Review.
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