[Cdnc] California Digital Newspaper Collection Needs Your Help

[Brian K Geiger]

Dear CDNC Users,

I write to ask for your help. For the last decade we have received funding every year from the State Legislature. That funding has been cut from the 2026 budget. Without it, the CDNC will go offline and the work we do to preserve and digitize California newspapers will end.

Please take a couple of minutes to email the budget subcommittee members and urge them to put our funding back in the budget. I have provided some sample text below that you can copy and paste into "Comments" section of their contact forms. The contact information for the committee members is here:
https://sbud.senate.ca.gov/members/subcommittee-1
https://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/sub-committees/subcommittee-no-3-education-finance

At the very least, I would ask that you email the Chairs (Senator Laird and Assembly Member Alvarez). If you can also email some of the committee members, all the better.

Thank you for your support of our work.

Best,

Brian
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Director, Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research
UC Riverside
cbsr.ucr.edu
bgeiger at ucr.edu<mailto:bgeiger at ucr.edu>
951-827-7007

Sample Text

I write to urge you to put the $430,000 for the California Newspaper Project (CNP) back into the FY2026 budget. For more than three decades, the CNP has worked to catalog, preserve and digitize our state's newspapers.  Along with tens of thousands of other Californians, I am an avid user of their California Digital Newspaper Collection (CDNC), https://cdnc.ucr.edu, a free online collection of more than 40 million pages of digitized newspapers from around the Golden State. Every year they digitize millions of additional pages through grants, partnerships with private industry, and contracts with institutions around the state. No one else in California does this work and without the state support for the CNP, no one will do it. The CDNC is the largest archive of its kind in the country. This relatively small investment from the State will ensure this unique and invaluable resource remains freely accessible to all Californians.

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