Hoosier State Chronicles is Indiana’s statewide historic digital newspaper program, operated by the Indiana State Library and funded by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act. We provide free, online access to high quality digital images of Indiana's historic newspapers by digitizing our collection and assisting other organizations in making their collections digitally available. To date, Hoosier State Chronicles contains 186,601 issues comprising 1,589,638 pages from 1804-2018.
This online resource originated in 2011 with grant funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities that enabled us, in partnership with the Indiana Historical Society, to digitize Indiana newspapers for the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). The Indiana titles digitized through NDNP are also available at the Library of Congress's Chronicling America, along with over 20 million newspaper pages from around the United States. You can find additional digitized Indiana newspapers from other sources from a listing on our blog.
The Indiana State Library has received 5 NDNP grant awards from 2011-2022 and has also received support from the Central Indiana Community Foundation and the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services for additional newspaper digitization.
We are currently interested in projects that are: 50,000 pages or less, highlight time periods, locations, and communities currently underrepresented in our collection (1804-1807, 1811-1815; Northwest, Northeast, and Southwest regions of the state), and are on microfilm (either master or service reels).
The Indiana State Library Newspaper Division has the largest collection of Indiana newspapers either in print, microfilm, or digital format. For an overview of the available resources for Indiana newspaper research visit their website.
Hoosier State Chronicles projects are completed to National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) specifications, which requires an outside vendor to complete the imaging and metadata work. Our recommended vendors are Digital Divide Data and Apex Covantage. Please review the NDNP guidelines online at the Library of Congress.
Stay up to date with the latest Hoosier State Chronicles news by reading our blog.
Contact Justin Clark, Digital Initiatives Director of the Indiana State Library, at jusclark@library.in.gov with any comments, questions or suggestions. Or submit a feedback form and let us know how we're doing.