Title Selection

Since its founding, South Carolina has produced hundreds of newspaper titles in every region of the state - far too many to be included in any one grant cycle of the National Digital Newspaper Program. To select newspapers for inclusion in this cycle, staff assembled an advisory board and documented their recommendations. The final list of titles represents a process that accounted for advisory board recommendations, preservation issues, and copyright restrictions.

Specific guidelines focused the advisory board and the available newspapers to them. The NEH and LC created guidelines for content selection . For example, the 2009 grant cycle allows participants to digitize materials from 1860 through 1922. NEH and LC also encourages programs to identify newspapers that represent geographic, ethnic, and cultural diversity. Adding to these guidelines, staff encouraged the advisory board to select titles from which the South Caroliniana Library owned the original microfilm. To assist in the selection process, each advisory board received a full list of available newspapers at the South Caroliniana Library. From that list, members suggested possible titles for digitization, compiled by the project manager.

The compiled list of all newspaper titles suggested for digitization is available for download here in PDF format. In addition, a list of the final newspaper titles selected for the 2009-2011 grant cycle is available via a SCDNP google map as well as provided below. Note that the shading in the table below combines newspapers that have title changes over time. As newspaper titles become available in Chronicling America, they will be linked to the newspaper titles in the table.

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