Winter 2011 - Norwegian-American Historical Association - St. Olaf ...

Page 12 Volume 140NON-PROFIT ORG.U.S. POSTAGE PAIDFARIBAULT, MN 55057PERMIT NO. 21Norwegian-AmericanHistorical Association1510 St. Olaf AvenueNorthfield, MN 55057www.naha.stolaf.edunaha@stolaf.eduPhone: 507-786-3221Change Service RequestedN F S . . ? P G ? . ; A S B = = < ? A @N < ? D 2 S U . ; N 2 D @ = . = 2 ? I Y . S U ; SSt. Olaf College is pleased toannounce that Jill Strass, DigitalInitiatives and Metadata Librarianwas awarded a $30,250 NygaardFoundation grant to digitizethe St. Olaf Library holdings ofNorwegian American newspapersthat date back to the late 19thcentury. The Nygaard Foundationprovides funding and support foractivities and projects that benefitthe mission of St. Olaf College.Digitizing Norwegian Americannewspapers will nurture anappreciation of the Norwegianheritage of St. Olaf College andwill help preserve the history ofthe Norwegian immigrants forfuture generations.The grant’s goal is to digitize 25,000pages of Norwegian AmericanNewspapers, some of which areowned by NAHA and held by theRolvaag Library. The grant awardwill allow for the purchase ofequipment and student hours forthe digitization effort.The grant funded work is a 2stage process: the first stage is todigitize 25,000 pages of a NorwegianAmerican newspaper to becompleted by May of 2012; thesecond stage is to provide on-line,web-based access. The grant willprovide support for only the firststage. The Library will continueto seek out funding to completethe entire project. Jill anticipatesstarting to scan the papers duringthe summer of 2011. They havesome technical issues to workthrough, but it is possible theycould provide some access in thefall of 2011 as the newspapers aredigitized. If the technical issuesrequire additional funding to resolve,access may be delayed untilsuch funding can be found.