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American Newspapers: Newspapers in Print and ILL

Requesting Newspapers Through Interlibrary Loan

Many newspapers have not been digitized but have been preserved on microfilm. Although microfilm is not as convenient as digitized newspapers, they may be a researcher's only option to access a newspaper. Microfilm can be requested through Interlibrary Loan for use on the Libraries' microfilm readers. To identify newspapers available on microform try searching Worldcat. A particularly important collection of newspapers on microfilm can be search through the CRL newspaper catalog.  You do not have to determine if a newspaper is available on microfilm to make a request.  If you have the title and date of a newspaper issue or range of issues that you need you can make a request using the ILL form and the library will try to identify a copy on microfilm.

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