The University Libraries have been awarded a $393,650 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize historical Pennsylvania newspapers on microfilm, under the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). The two-year grant will cover the digitization of 100,000 pages of Pennsylvania newspapers published between 1880 and 1922, which will be entered into the Library of Congress's historical newspaper database, Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers.