As of 08/19/2021

Series 2924: Mississippi Digital Newspaper Project Working Files. 2013-2020.
Dept. of Archives and History. Special Projects. (RG 31/SG 9).

      This series is made up of the working files from the Mississippi Digital Newspaper Project (MDNP), overseen by Jo Miles-Seely, head of the Mississippi branch of the NDNP project and former employee of MDAH. The files come from her desk and the desk of Julia Young, former Director of MDAH. This was part of a larger National Digital Newspaper Project (NDNP) to attempt to collect and digitize all possible newspaper material in a National effort to both: 1) Preserve the deteriorating source of historical knowledge in its paper and microfilm form and 2) Make the material more widely available and easily accessible to the public. The material in this series consists of but is not limited to: Advisory Committee Meeting minutes, correspondence (kept with other files to provide context), Budgeting information, grant applications, project reports, reimbursement documentations, and Personal Services Contracts. Organization of this series finding aid is by cycle grouping: Cycle I, II, III and Cycle material that cannot be separated (Cycle I-III) and is thereunder organized chronologically by year.

Cycle I (2013-2015)

2013-2015: NDNP Awardee Interim Performance Reports35449
2013-2015: Reimbursement Documentation35452

2013: LSU Grant Agreement35449
2013: “Comprehensive List of Newspaper Titles, 1836-1922”35449
2013: Program Proposal35449
2013: Budget Form Projections35449
2013: Advisory Committee Membership Applications35449
2013: Advisory Committee Meeting35449
2013: Grant Applications35449
2013: Cooperative Agreement35449

2014: Personal Services Contracts35449

Cycle II (2015-2017)

2015-2016: NDNP Awardee Interim Performance Reports35450

2015-2017: Cooperative Agreement35450
2015-2017: Reimbursement Documentation35452

2015: Grant Application Package35450

2016: Advisory Committee Meeting35450
2016: Contractual Agreements35450

Cycle III (2017-2020)

2017-2018: NDNP Awardee Interim Performance Reports35451

2017-2019: Budget Forms35451
2017-2019: NDNP Program Proposal35451
2017-2019: Reimbursement Documentation35452

2018-2019: Chronicling America Usage35451

2017: Advisory Committee Meeting35451
2017: Official Notice of Action35451

2019: “Performing Reporting Requirements”35451

2020: Long-Range Plan35451
2020: Mission Statement35451

Cycle I-III (2013-2020)

2013-2019: Essays35448
2013-2019: Reimbursement Documentation35452
2013-2019: Tracking Charts35452
2013-2019: Retention Schedules35448

2020: Digitized Newspapers Inventory35448
2020: NDNP Final Performance Progress report (rough draft and final draft)35448