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Exploring Missouri’s
Historic New
spapersM
att ButlerDigitization Consultant, M
issouri State Library
Patsy LuebbertGrant M
anager, State Historical Society of Missouri
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1,500,000 Pages!The State Historical Society has digitized over one m
illion new
spaper pages. 227 Titles79 Counties and City of St. Louis21 Partners
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Partners•B
arry-Lawrence R
egional Library •C
ameron P
ublic Library •C
arter County Library
•Caruthersville P
ublic Library •C
urtis Laws W
ilson Library –•M
issouri University of S
cience & Technology
•Gentry C
ounty Librry •H
enry County Library
•Hickory C
ounty Library •Lincoln U
niversity •M
acon Public Library
•Marion C
ounty Library District –
Palm
yra
Partners•M
ercantile Library –U
niversity of Missouri-S
t. Louis •M
issouri History M
useum
•Missouri S
tate Library •P
almyra Library D
istrict •S
cenic Regional Library
•Shelbina C
arnegie Public Library
•St. C
harles City-C
ounty Library •S
t. Joseph Public Library
•St. Louis P
ublic Library •W
illiam Jew
ell College C
urry Library -•W
illiam E
. Partee Center
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Counties with Digitized Titles
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The State Historical Society of M
issouri W
ebsite
•https://shsm
o.org/newspaper/m
dnp/
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Finding Missouri N
ewspapers on M
DNP
https://shsmo.org/new
spaper/
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Searching on MDN
P
http://digital.shsmo.org/cdm
/helpdocs
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•After selecting “Advanced Search,” this m
enu will show
.
•Refine your search by using the drop-dow
n menus show
n above.
•Add different collections you w
ant to search including other newspapers or other collections that the State
Historical Society has including the “American Civil W
ar in Missouri” and “W
orld War I.”
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Searching by year or years
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Library of Congress-Chronicling America
•http://chroniclingam
erica.loc.gov/
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Finding Missouri N
ewspapers on Chronicling Am
erica
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
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•Select the “U
S New
spaper Directory, 1690-Present button.•
You can either browse for the title you w
ant or you can use the drop-down m
enus to select the state, county, and city of the paper and enter the approxim
ate title in the “Enter keywords” box
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Searching in Chronicling America
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•Pick the state w
here the paper you want is located from
the drop-down m
enu.
•Select a date range from
the year drop-down m
enus if you have one.
•Enter your keyw
ords. •
Hint: Your searches will yield better results if you keep the follow
ing points in mind:
•Com
mon w
ords such asand,not, andthe
are ignored by the search engine.•
Case of letters is ignored. For example,Civiland
civilare treated the same.
•Diacritic characters (accent m
arks, in non-English text) and other special characters produce inaccurate results, so plain (unaccented) letters should be substituted for letters w
ith diacritics.•
Chronicling America's search engine utilizes language-specific dictionaries to include w
ord variants for your search term
s. This is often called stemm
ing. For example, the search term
house, when
stemm
ed in English, would also return w
ords like housesand
housing.
Basic Searching
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Advanced Searching
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Other potential resources
•New
spapers.com
•Local libraries/historical societies –physical/m
icrofilm
•Others?
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Questions?
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Contact info
Matt Butler
Digitization ConsultantM
issouri State Library573-522-1477
matthew
o.gov
Patsy LuebbertGrant M
anagerState Historical Society of M
issouri573-882-3671
LuebbertP@shsm
o.org