linda sherwood wrote:
Argus newspaper back in the early 90's.
which Argus and 1890ies or 1990iea
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This is Gwent - the website of the South Wales Argus
ask them
http://www.thisisgwent.co.uk/
for old newspapers the British Library at Colindale
going on film should be on loan in Australia too
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http://www.sas.ac.uk/ies/Centre/Newspapers/crump.htm
Some facts and figures will give you an idea of the size of this
operation. The current collection of newspapers is 32 kms. of
shelf-length in size for hard copy with an additional 13kms. of
microfilm. It grows at the rate of over a third of a kilometre a year.
The greatest proportion of that growth (338m) being UK legal deposit
material with significantly less growth in foreign papers because, as I
have said, we acquire as much as we can on purchased microfilm both to
save on space and for ease of use. We currently acquire 121 foreign
titles on microfilm. Some 37,000 readers used the Newspaper Library in
1999/2000 and such is the demand that the reading rooms were
operationally full on average once or twice a month.
These facts trip off the tongue easily and can perhaps obscure the
reality of an enormous collection (both in terms of the size of its
individual components and as a collection in itself), whose binding,
storage and availability to readers has required decades of investment.
In order to achieve systematic microfilming over the last thirty years
we have had to commit an additional and separate funding stream each
year that the programme has been carried forward.
enjoy
Hugh W
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