Alabama Newspaper
United States Newspaper Program
Also, the Illinois State Historical Library, Newspaper Library, Old State Capitol, Springfield, IL 62701-1507, telephone: 217-785-7956, cooperates with the Illinois Newspaper Project and preserves originals and microfilm of many Illinois newspapers. ... The USNP has supported projects in each of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Each project is conducted by a single organization within a state or territory, usually the state's largest newspaper repository. A project's staff inventories holdings in public libraries, county courthouses, newspaper offices, historical museums, college and university libraries, archives, and historical societies. Catalog records are entered into a national database maintained by the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) and accessible through more than 43,500 dedicated computer terminals worldwide. Microfilm copies of newspapers are generally available to researchers anywhere in the country through inter-library loan. ... [Read More]
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