Dorothy Liegl, Colleen Smith-Huron Public and Greta Chapman, Rapid City Public are excited to announce a kick-off meeting on the Digitization of South Dakota Newspapers Project for this coming Wednesday, March 2, 2:00 – 3:00 MT and 3:00 – 4:00 CT. 18 people are confirmed as they had previously expressed interest in participating in the project. The meeting is open to all interested people and we are hoping more will be able to attend. There has been a challenge in getting sites set up so apologies for a short notice. There will be other opportunities but it is important to get up and started on this given approaching deadlines for funding resources. Any questions please let me, Dorothy or Colleen know. Hope to see you at the meeting!

The following items are agenda topics:

§ What has happened to date with public domain newspaper access in South Dakota – D. Liegl

· SD Newspaper Association Database

· SD US Newspaper Project (USNP)

§ What is currently happening with public domain newspapers on a national level – C. Smith

· Huron Newspaper Planning Grant with OCLC

§ What is currently happening with copyright newspapers in South Dakota – G. Chapman

· Sioux Falls, Aberdeen, Rapid City

§ Inventory of SD newspapers – public domain – D. Liegl

· Historical up to 1922

§ Inventory of SD newspapers – copyright – G. Chapman

· Sioux Falls, Aberdeen – Newsbank

· Rapid City – possible sources

§ Funding Resources

· National – C. Smith

· SD – G. Chapman

§ Next steps – G. Chapman, C. Smith, D. Liegl

Dakota Digital Network Locations

§         Brookings – SDSU

§         Madison: DSU’s DDN TCB 109 room

§         Mitchell – High School

§         Northern State University

§         Pierre – Capitol Room 2

§         Rapid City – Western Dakota Tech

§         Sioux Falls – Washington Pavilion

§         Vermillion – University of South Dakota

§         Yankton High School

§         Watertown – Lake Area Technical