I see that more digital newspapers will be coming online at the “Chronicling America” site soon. Now it’s New Mexico papers. Cool…
Following is an excerpt from an article in 
the August 16, 2010 edition of the Daily Lobo.
UNM Libraries received a more than $350,000 grant to resurrect hundreds of thousands of New Mexico newspapers, some of which are 150 years old.
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded UNM Libraries the grant to digitize 100,000 pages from New Mexican newspapers that date between 1860-1922.
Michael Kelly, director for the Center of Southwest research, said a board will select which of UNM’s collection of newspapers will be digitized.
“Since UNM Libraries hold the largest collection of New Mexico news papers on microfilm, we want to take the initiative and make these and other unique resources freely available to every one in New Mexico,” Kelly said, in an Aug. 2 news release.
UNM Libraries employees will make the digitized newspapers available for the Library of Congress’ “Chronicling America” online database as well as a New Mexico’s digital database.
