We are pleased to announce a new release of the CDNC newspaper viewer. The beta version formerly available for searching the Daily Alta California was taken down. The Alta California will return as quickly as we can load the data. All titles will be searchable from one database.

The Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research, University of California, Riverside (UCR), has received two grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities to participate in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), 2005-2009. Additional information about this program is available at the Library of Congress corollary NDNP Web site. We also received three Library Services and Technology Act grants from the California State Library to create a California Digital Newspaper Collection at UCR.

The NDNP is a joint venture of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress to create a national digital newspaper resource representing papers from all states published between 1836-1922. The program is projected to last twenty years. The first grant covered newspapers published between 1900-1910. The Center digitized over 100,000 pages of California newspapers for this period: the San Francisco Call, the Amador Ledger, the Imperial Valley Press, and the Los Angeles Herald. The Center will be digitizing an additional 100,000 pages for the second grant, which targets newspapers published 1880-1910.

The California Digital Newspaper Collection at UCR will include all papers digitized for the national program and additional historical California newspapers, the Daily Alta California, in particular.

Please send comments or questions to Andrea Vanek, Assistant Director, California Newspaper Project.