DOUGLAS COLLEGE LIBRARY

THE NEWSPARERS HELD IN DOUGLAS COLLEGE
LIBRARY

The newspapers held in the Douglas
College Library are a useful resource in
looking for contemporary readtion to world
events, local news, and in the area of
historical research. No other resource
so readily available gives the feeling
or mood of an era, yet at Douglas they
are not used as fully as they might be.
To aid in their use the library has pur-
chased two indexes that give access to
local newspapers.

One is the Province Newspaper Index,
which deals with articles that are concern-
ed with or effect business and economics
from 1971 on. However this limitation
is interpreted very liberally by the com-
pilers (The Vancouver Public Library). For
example this index is very useful when
trying to locate information about municipal
decisions. It is useful for environmental
decisions by all levels of government,
and noteworthy legislation in many social
fields. The index is designed to be used
with back issues of the Province, and
includes an alphabetical subject list as
well as a daily synopsis, or abstract
of news stories

The second index is more general in
application, and while it is not as
easily used as the Province Index, the
extra time taken is usually worth the
effort. This index is the Provincial
_ Library Index of Newspapers of Vancouver
and Victoria from 1900-1969, with a sup-
plement to 1972. The papers indexed are
the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Prov-
ince, the Vancouver Times, the Vancouver
News Herald, the Victoria petty Times,
the Victoria Daily Colonist. his
index consists of an alphabetical list of
subject headings and microfilm of index
cards listing articles from the various
newspapers. There are 62 rolls of index
entries for 1900-1969, and 9 for the |
supplement. Headings are numerous, and
cover a wide range of subjects - so wide
that even Douglas College gets an entry.
While a little more difficult to use, in
that there are two microfilm reels to —
deal with (one for the index, one for the
newspaper itself) it has greater application
to current material, and historical data
than the Province index.

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In addition, references to news stories
can be found in the various encyclopedic
yearbooks, Facts on File, Canadian News.
Facts and Keesings Contemporary Archives, all
of which are available on all our camptses.

Finally, we include a short list of
our holdings. In general you may assume
that unless indicated, current editions
only are kept, usless back issues appear
under the "microfilm holdings" list. We
hope this will encourage faculty and staff to
use the valuable resource.

- Garth Homer

NEWSPAPERS - CURRENT SUBSCRIPTIONS

 

TITLE NO. OF SUB'S ,
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR 2 $6 %
COLUMBIAN 3 S,N &*R
CORREO HISPANO-AMERICANO 1 S
DELTA OPTIMIST 1 S
LE DEVOIR 1 S
ENTERPRISE 1 S
LE FIGARO 1 S
FINANCIAL POST 3 S,\N&R
FINANCIAL TIMES OF CANADA 3 $4, 48
FORT LANGLEY STAR 2 N
GAZETTE (MAPLE RIDGE-PITT

MEADOWS) 1 s
GEORGIA STRAIGHT 3 S\N&R
GERMAN TRIBUNE 1 S
GLOBE AND MAIL 3 S,N&R
HERALD (COQUITLAM) 1 N
INDIAN NEWS 1 s
INDIAN VOICE : S
JOURNAL OF COMMERCE - B.C./

YUKON EDITION 3 S,N&R

JOURNAL OF COMMERCE AND
COMMERCIAL

JOURNAL OF COMMERCE - THE
WEDNESDAY REPORT

KINESIS

LANGLEY ADVANCE

MANCHESTER GUARDIAN WEEKLY

NESIKA

NEW YORK TIMES (SUNDAY EDITION)

NORTHWEST PASSAGE

PEAK

PEDESTAL

PRAVDA

PROVINCE

QUINCENARIO HISPANO

RICHMOND REVIEW

ROLLING STONE

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