The Illinois Newspaper Project ( INP ) began as part of the United States Newspaper Program (USNP), a cooperative effort between the states and the federal government designed to catalog and preserve on microfilm the nation's historic newspaper heritage. The USNP was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and administered by the Library of Congress , which is currently funding the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), of which the INP is also a part.
16-451: Day Book may refer to: The Day Book , a newspaper in Chicago 1911–1917 Weekly Day Book , a newspaper which primarily existed to propagate white supremacist ideas, 1848–1879 General journal , or day book a day book in bookkeeping See also [ edit ] Diary , a record reporting on what has happened over the course of
32-583: A survey to assess the state's newspaper collections. ISHL staff sent more than 4,000 surveys to libraries , newspaper publishers, historical societies , genealogical organizations , and anyone whom they learned might own newspapers. With the planning phase completed in March 1989, the Illinois Newspaper Project team received another grant from NEH to undertake the cataloging and inventorying work (or, " fieldwork "), with technical assistance provided by
48-410: A Nazi propagandist. Some 135 articles are attributed to reporter Carl Sandburg , who would become a celebrated poet after leaving the paper. This Chicago -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about an Illinois newspaper is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Illinois Newspaper Project Since its establishment in 1987,
64-536: A day Commonplace book , a way to compile knowledge, usually by writing information into books Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Day Book . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Day_Book&oldid=1085563231 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
80-670: A mix of politics and lowbrow, sensational content. Circulation peaked at 22,839 in October 1916. During the Chicago Newspaper strike of 1912 , when several of the city's major newspapers were crippled after locking out pressmen, circulation of the Day Book rose, though it fell once the strike ended. The Day Book published its last edition on July 6, 1917. It had turned a profit only one month since its founding, in January 1917. It fell short of
96-545: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Day Book The Day Book was an experimental, advertising-free daily newspaper published in Chicago from 1911 to 1917. It was owned by E. W. Scripps as part of the Scripps-McRae League of Newspapers (later Scripps-Howard Newspapers ). Its editor was Negley D. Cochran , previously of The Toledo News-Bee . It
112-499: The New York Sun , Scripps instituted policies at his papers that limited the size of advertisements and discouraged the full page spreads preferred by department stores. In 1904, he outlined a plan for a newspaper chain, starting in Chicago, that relied entirely on subscription fees and sales. The Day Book began publishing on September 28, 1911. Like his other penny presses , the Day Book championed labor rights while delivering
128-713: The 19 northernmost Illinois counties . When the UIUC Library joined the project in June 1995 (and the INP relocated its offices there), it became responsible for the central and southern Illinois counties . The Illinois State Historical Library was the first Illinois institution to participate in the USNP, and received a planning grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop
144-738: The INP has been staffed by librarians from the Illinois State Historical Library (ISHL), the Chicago Historical Society (CHS), and the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (UIUC) Library, respectively. The ISHL, now the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library (ALPL), participated from 1987 to 1995. The CHS, now the Chicago History Museum (CHM), worked on the project from 1989 to 2009 in
160-573: The Library of Congress' Chronicling America website. The Illinois Newspaper Project, as part of the USNP, completed work in July 2010. To date, INP staff has inventoried and cataloged 21,000+ U.S. newspaper titles, added 26,000+ holdings records to the newspaper union list in OCLC , and microfilmed almost 2,250,000 pages, becoming an important resource for scholars, genealogists, and ancestry enthusiasts. In 2010,
176-708: The Library of Congress. The INP began inventorying and cataloging the newspaper collections at the ISHL in Springfield, Illinois and at the Chicago Historical Society in Chicago . This work took the INP six years to complete. After the fieldwork on the collections at ISHL and CHS was completed, the INP relocated its office to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library in Urbana, Illinois . Staff at CHS continued inventorying and cataloging other collections in northeast Illinois, and
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#1732875977553192-563: The UIUC-based staff began inventorying and cataloging the newspaper collections at UIUC. INP staff completed work on the collection at UIUC in three years. When this was completed, they began fieldwork in east central Illinois. INP staff at UIUC completed fieldwork in east central Illinois, and by 2005, the Midwestern region of Illinois was also completed. The CHS team took responsibility for inventorying and cataloging newspaper collections found in
208-652: The completion of fieldwork in downstate Illinois , the staff at UIUC began the task of re-inventorying the newspaper microfilm collection at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield, and also continued preservation microfilming of unique Illinois newspapers. In June 2009, UIUC Library received funding under the National Endowment for the Humanities' National Digital Newspaper Program to digitize culturally significant Illinois newspapers. Titles digitized as part of this program are hosted on
224-661: The estimated 30,000 subscribers needed to become self-sustaining and far short of the 15% profit Scripps expected of his papers. The Day Book was digitized by the Illinois Newspaper Project . Archived issues can be found at the Chronicling America website. A.D. Condo drew about 400 installations of Mr. Skygack, from Mars , the first science fiction comic , which was syndicated nationally, in addition to his other strip The Outbursts of Everett True . Donald S. Day later became famous for his work as
240-793: The northwest part of the state. By the end of 2007, UIUC INP staff had completed the southernmost region of the state, and also began preservation microfilming of unique Illinois newspapers from the UIUC Library collections and other institutions in the state. Staff at the Chicago History Museum (formerly the Chicago Historical Society) completed fieldwork in northeastern Illinois. INP staff at UIUC completed fieldwork in southeast Illinois. The staff at CHM completed fieldwork in northwest Illinois, closing their project in April 2009. With
256-515: Was printed in tabloid size to save costs. With the Day Book , Scripps sought to eliminate the often adversarial relationship between his editorial staffs and the advertisers that sustained them. To his disappointment, pressure from the business community had at times forced the Cincinnati Post to temper its firebrand campaigns against bossism and cronyism . Inspired by Charles Anderson Dana 's unsuccessful push to eliminate advertising at
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