Project Makes Old SC Newspapers Available Online

  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Old news will be new again with a
project the University of South Carolina is starting to put
newspapers published between 1860 and 1922 into a computer
database.
    The Post and Courier of Charleston reports the university’s
libraries have obtained a $350,000 grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities for the project.
    Digital librarian Kate Boyd says the project will scan 100,000
pages of old South Carolina newspapers and make them available
through the Library of Congress’ database.
    The first phase should be ready by 2011, the 150th anniversary
of the Civil War.
    Boyd says an advisory board will select more than a dozen
newspapers to start the project.
    The university plans to create a Web site for the South Carolina
newspapers that is separate from the Library of Congress site.