The Nebraska Newspaper Project

The Nebraska Newspaper Project (NNP) is a cooperative project between the University Libraries at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) and the Nebraska State Historical Society (NSHS). It is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and is part of the U.S. Newspaper Program (USNP), which is managed by the Library of Congress. The U.S.Newspaper Program is committed to locating, cataloging, union listing, and preserving every newspaper ever published in the U.S. including the U.S. protectorates and newspapers published prior to independence.

In Nebraska, the project is seeking every issue of every newspaper ever published within Nebraska from territorial times through the present. The Nebraska Newspaper Project completed a planning grant in 1992/93. From 1994-96, UNL Libraries staff cataloged Nebraska newspaper collections at the Nebraska State Historical Society and Czech American newspapers in the University Libraries, UNL. Once titles were located, holdings were recorded; the newspapers were cataloged following CONSER standards on OCLC, an international online union catalog; and the records were downloaded into IRIS, the University's online integrated library system. In 1997, the project developed some additional finding aids to the collection at the Nebraska State Historical Society. From 1998-2000, UNL Libraries and the Nebraska State Historical Society sought newspapers missing from the collections at NSHS. Many of the papers were taken to Lincoln for microfilming following international preservation standards.

For more information about the project, contact Katherine L. Walter at kwalter1@unl.edu or (402) 472-3939.