Saving the Primary Sources in the National Library of Paraguay

$70.2K USD

Funder	Department of State
Recipient Organization	U.S. Government - Department of State
Country	Paraguay
Start Date	Dec 19, 2006
End Date	Feb 17, 2008
Duration	425 days
Number of Grantees	2
Roles	Recipient
Data Source	US Foreign Aid
Grant ID	`77519-48`

Grant Description

To support the safeguarding and preservation of irreplaceable archives at the National Library of Paraguay which holds the only known copies of newspapers and documents dating from 1865 to the early 20th century. The project will digitize the periodicals in order to make them available for scholarly research.