Introducing the Newsroom

Stewart GilliesNews Reference Team Leader

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Newsroom at the British Library

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Boston Spa Reading Room

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National Newspaper Building

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National Newspaper Building

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National Newspaper Building

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Newsroom at the British Library

• Microfilmed newspapers - 70 mins delivery (top 15 UK newspaper titles on open access in the Room)

• Digitised newspapers and electronic resources

• Printed newspapers – 48 hour delivery

• Journals – high use 70 mins / low use 48 hour delivery

• Broadcast News service

• Legal Deposit UK Web Archive

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News collections - Newspapers

The British Library’s News Collection comprises an extensive archive of newspapers dating back to the early C 17th including:

•34,000 titles

•60 million issues

•660,000 volumes

•630,000 microfilm reels

•11 million digitised pages

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News collections – Newspapers

Country No of titles* Oldest Year coverage

Latest Date

France 2246 1631 June 2015

Germany 1460 1743 May 2015

Italy 591 1722 February 2015

Spain 331 1716 June 2015

Portugal 114 1716 June 2015

Belgium 445 1756 December 2012

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News Collections – Newspapers - Rare

Print items with shelfmark prefixes: PENN.NT and PENP must be requested to the Rare Books & Music Reading Room at St Pancras. Examples are:

Affiches de la Commune de Paris 1793 PENP.NT352 Avvisi Di Mantova 1722-94 PENP.NT346Gazette [T. Renaudot] 1631- 52 etc PENN.NT370 Gazeta de Lisboa 1716-24 etc PENN.NT316 Gazette de Cologne 1743-44 etc PENN.NT317 Journal Politique de Bruxelles 1779-81 PENN.NT372 Gazette Ordinaire D’Amsterdam 1667 PENN.NT366Gazeta De Zaragoza 1705-30 PENP.NT346

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News Collections – Digitised newspapers

British Newspaper Archive

www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

UK HE & FE sector can subscribe to British Newspapers 1600-1950 available from Gale Digital Collections http://gdc.gale.com

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News Collections: Selected Electronic Resources

• 17th and 18th Century Burney Newspapers • The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985• The Guardian Digital Archive 1821-2003• The Illustrated London News Historical Archive• The Picture Post Historical Archive 1938-1957• The Daily Mail Historical Archive 1896 - 2004• The New York Times Historical Archive 1851-2010• The Times of India 1838-2005• UK Pressonline (Daily Mirror, Daily Express, Daily Star)• Irish Newspaper Archive

• African Newspapers 1800- 1922

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News Collections: Selected Electronic Resources

World Newsreels Online 1929 – 1966

includes the Newsreels

Les Actualités Françaises

Hollands Nieuws

The March of Time (USA)

Universal Newsreels (USA)

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News Collections: Selected Electronic Resources

Archives Unbound (Gale Cengage) Includes:

Journaux de la Revolution de 1848 (British Library’s holdings of all newspaper and periodical titles published in France during the revolution of 1848; covers 1848-52)

Voices from Wartime France 1939-1945: Clandestine Resistance and Vichy (complete French holdings of the British Library)

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News collections – Broadcast News

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BBC Catalogue - Pilot

BBC Catalogue at the BL provides:

•2.2 million catalogue records of Radio & TV programmes broadcast from 1950s to 2012

•200,000 playable radio and TV programmes dating from mid 2007 onwards

•Available only in BL Reading Rooms

•Records DO NOT appear in Explore the BL

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Finding newspapers and journals

All newspapers and journals are listed in the BL’s main catalogue – Explore the British Library.

http: //explore.bl.uk For newspapers, search by title words, place of publication or distribution (country, city/town); shelfmark or any word in the catalogue record.

Use Advance Search option to set Material Type = Newspapers and enter Start Year and End Year.

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Thank you - any questions?

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