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Newspapers

Description

CRL has vast holdings of newspapers from all regions of the world; as well as collections of scripts, transcripts, and translations of news reports produced or compiled by the British Broadcasting Corporation, CBS, the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, and the Voice of America. Newspaper holdings include over 19,000 titles, more than 10,000 of which are published outside the U.S. CRL endeavors to collect extensive and, whenever possible, complete runs of newspaper titles, and its holdings of some titles are the most complete in existence. All newspapers can be searched in CRL’s catalog. 

CRL’s major strengths are:

CRL maintains subscriptions to news titles, purchases and produces microfilm of selected international publications, licenses and digitizes collections, and obtains additional acquisitions through CRL’s purchase programs. Many individual newspaper titles are available in more than one format, depending on the period. Newspapers are an important source of information for all time periods. More and more newspapers are available digitally or gathered (aggregated) in a searchable database. 
 

Access to the collection via CRL Catalog
The first Option is: 1.) You can filter the CRL catalog on the right side for "CRL Key Collection" or "newspapers" Or you can search in "All fields." Under "Narrow Search (set Limits/filter)": "Format," "Genre," or any other filter. The second option is: In the search box at the top of the page, search for author, subject, or a title. Once you obtain your search results, you can narrow your search further. 2.) Under "Narrow Search (set filter)" to: "Format," select "microform" ad any other filter. Many newspapers are microfilmed. However CRL owns many newspapers in original format.