What's in your wallet? Make it a Library of Michigan library card. Get a Library Card
Online Resources for Library Cardholders
The Library of Michigan supports digitization efforts throughout the state by offering resources to libraries. Resources include consulting, equipment access, funding opportunities, and more.
Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA)
Michigan eLibrary (MeL) Information
History of the Library of Michigan
Press releases courtesy of library staff and the Michigan Department of Education.
State Librarian/State Librarian's Excellence Award
Search is currently unavailable. Please try again later.
The web Browser you are currently using is unsupported, and some features of this site may not work as intended. Please update to a modern browser such as Chrome, Firefox or Edge to experience all features Michigan.gov has to offer.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, available from the Library of Congress, includes a directory of all American newspapers as well as libraries' holdings.
OCLC FirstSearch provides access to the newspaper holdings of many OCLC member libraries.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, also hosts all the digitized newspaper content created by the National Digital Newspaper Program
Michigan Digital Newspaper Portal provides access to either digitized versions of newspapers or links to digitized newspapers made available from a variety of sources.
Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections offers 1.1 million pages of digitized newspapers and trade journals from Illinois and across the United States.
Copies of microfilm can only be made by the institution or company which owns the master negative. Generally, the leader of the microfilm will indicate who created the microfilm and who likely owns the master copy. Some of the larger collections of Michigan newspapers masters are held by the Library of Michigan (Librarian@Michigan.gov), Central Michigan University's Clarke Library, ProQuest, the Center for Research Libraries, and Heritage Archives.
In early 2005 the National Endowment for the Humanities announced the creation of the National Digital Newspaper Program . Building on the foundation of the USNP, this new program will digitize and make accessible newspapers from all U.S. states and territories published between 1836 and 1922. The first round of six state projects began in mid-2005 with more states added each year.
NEH created the United States Newspaper Program (USNP) in the early 1980s in response to needs expressed by scholars studying the nation's history, politics, and sociology, as well as other areas of common interest such as genealogy and local history. NEH chose to concentrate on newspapers because they provide one of the largest and most comprehensive bodies of original materials conveying the story of our country.
In the mid-1980s, the first grants for state-wide USNP projects were awarded. Grants were given to historical societies, and state, public, and academic libraries. The Michigan Newspaper Project was based at the Library of Michigan.
Projects were funded in every state, and in the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
An article from the Library of Congress that introduces the problems newspapers present and explains various conservation treatments.
Updated 02/28/2018