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A
Bibliography with Holdings
Maureen
E. Hady, Assistant Editor
The
newspaper collection of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin is an
internationally renowned resource including more than 9,000 titles, many of
them unique to this collection. In
fact, the Society has the second largest collection of newspapers in the United
States, exceeded only by the Library of Congress. Its holdings include newspapers from every state and territory
and from all Canadian provinces. More
than 75% of its holdings have been reproduced on microfilm, making the
collection extraordinarily accessible to historians, genealogists and other
researchers throughout the world.
The newspaper collection of the
State Historical Society of Wisconsin is the most important collection in Wisconsin
and one of the most important in the United States. Its holdings include approximately 4,000 titles published in
Wisconsin, 5,000 titles published elsewhere in the United States and 300
foreign newspapers. The Society was
selected as the key institution in the state for managing the collection and
inputting of the data about newspapers published and held in Wisconsin. It is one of six national newspaper repositories
in the United States chosen by the U.S. Newspaper Program (along with the Library
of Congress, New York Historical Society, American Antiquarian Society, etc.)
for inclusion in the national database.
The Society's newspaper collection is clearly a valuable national
resource.
Detailed
bibliographic records of the holdings have been captured in the National Union
List created as part of the U.S. Newspaper Program, funded by the National
Endowment for the Humanities, guided by the Library of Congress and maintained
for the library community and the public at large by OCLC (Online Computer
Library Center, Inc.). The records are
accessible on-line through OCLC in all institutions subscribing to the
system. However, these records are now
available for the first time in a two-volume set, making access convenient and
inexpensive for individual researchers.
Four separate indexes provide multi-pointed access, making these books
far more helpful than an OCLC terminal, which can be expensive and more
cumbersome to use.
A. GEOGRAPHICAL INDEX (MAIN ENTRY SECTION)
This
section is divided into three parts according to the place of publication.
1. Wisconsin
All
newspapers are listed alphabetically by the city or town in which they were
published and then by name. The
complete bibliographic record is provided, including dates of publication, frequency,
and, where available, publisher's name and address, editors' names, language
(if other than English), name changes, target audience and the specific
holdings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
2. United States
U.S.
newspapers published outside Wisconsin are listed alphabetically by state and
city and then by name. Complete
bibliographic records are provided, as above.
3. Foreign
Foreign
newspapers are listed alphabetically by country and city and then by name. Complete bibliographic records are provided.
This section is also divided into three parts,
as above. Each part contains an
alphabetical list strictly by the names of the newspapers, including
cross-references to all name changes, a unique feature. For each newspaper, the entry includes the
dates of publication, frequency, city and language if other than English. For Wisconsin newspapers, the county is also
included. For the record of holdings
and other information, the reader is referred to the Main Entry Section
(Geographical Index)
This section is also divided into three parts,
as above, and for each entry the same information is provided as for the
Alphabetical Index. In this section,
decennial periods are listed (e.g., 1800, 1810, 1820, etc.) and under each is a
list of the newspapers begun in that ten-year period. This will be an extremely valuable tool for
any researcher who does not know the names of the newspapers published during
the period he or she is researching.
Not
every entry includes information about the original language of the newspaper
or about the intended audience.
However, all those records containing this information are indexed in
this section. Once again, there are
three separate geographic sections.
Founded in 1846, the Society was the first
publicly supported historical society in the United States. With library collections of nearly 3 million
items, plus vast archives, the Society is one of the preeminent research
institutions in the world in the fields of American history and American
culture.
The editor of this two-volume set has been
working at the Society since 1973 and has been head of the newspaper collection
since 1976. He is the author/editor of
many books and articles and has compiled a national bibliography and
union list of African-American newspapers and periodicals.
The assistant editor is currently the African-American Newspapers and Periodicals Bibliographer at the Society. She was previously a newspaper cataloger
during the first two years of the NEH-funded U.S. Newspaper Project.
This two-volume set has been produced from OCLC
tapes purchased by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and provided to
the publisher. The books are
printed on acid-free paper, smythe sewn and
bound in Grade C Buckram. The
two books are only available as a set.
NEWSPAPERS
IN THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN:
A Bibliography with Holdings. James P. Danky, Editor; Maureen E. Hady, Assistant Editor, in two
volumes,
ISBN: 0-88354-700-7, 701-5...........................................................................................$50
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