The Digital Military Newspaper Library is a pilot project to start a digital library to house, organize and preserve 16 contemporary and historic military newspapers (15 of which are born digital). For the 13 contemporary newspapers we will begin acquisition with issues beginning in January 2009. These newspapers represent Naval and Air Force bases from many geographical regions around the state of Florida and will include Kennedy Space Center, a submarine base at King’s Bay Georgia, the Panama Canal Zone, and two newspapers in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. This undertaking will seek to build on the success of other projects including the Florida Digital Newspaper Library and the Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library.

Please contact the Smathers' Libraries Development Office to make contributions at (352) 273-2505.