About the 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. For information on the Nebraska Digital Newspaper Program, see Digitization Projects.

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Staff Bios

Katherine L. Walter, Chair of the Special Collections & Preservation Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Project Director, has been involved with the Project since July 1992. She has a BA and MA from the University of Iowa, but married a Nebraskan, who incidentally edits a newspaper. Walter also has a college age daughter, 2 cats and is a professor in the Libraries. To contact her, telephone (402) 472-3939, fax (402) 472-5131, e-mail kwalter1@unl.edu.

Andrea Faling, State Archivist, is the Associate Director of theLibrary/Archives of the Nebraska State Historical Society, whose microfilm collection of Nebraska newspapers is the core of the Nebraska Newspaper Project. She has been involved with the Project since July 1992. Andrea earned a BA in American studies from Knox College (Galesburg, Ill.) in 1977, an MA degree in historical administration from Eastern Illinois University in 1979, and an MLS from Emporia State University in 1994. She is an expert on film history and baseball. Her favorite team is her hometown St. Louis Cardinals, but she has season tickets to the Lincoln Saltdogs. To contact her at the Nebraska State Historical Society, telephone (402) 471-4785, fax (402) 471-3100, mail 1500 R Street, PO Box 82554, Lincoln, NE 68501, e-mail: bun@nebraskahistory.org.