The Maine State Library strives to gather and protect newspapers revealed for the French-American neighborhood in Maine.

Adam Fisher, director of collections improvement and digital initiatives, stated the library is about to launch its fourth spherical of a nationally funded effort to digitize outdated Maine newspapers.

This time round, Fisher says, they’re specializing in underrepresented populations just like the French-People in Maine.

“Through the years, a variety of French-language newspapers have been revealed in Maine with a specific concentrate on the French-American neighborhood and French Canadian immigrants in a few of our cities, and this offers us digitization, preservation, and on-line entry to those newspapers.”

Fisher says 30 or extra French-language newspapers are revealed in Maine, however solely half are in any organized assortment. It reaches out to individuals who have copies of outdated publications that they might be keen to lend to the library because it digitizes the content material for future analysis.

The funding will enable the library to digitize practically 100,000 pages of historic Maine newspapers.