Introducing the Newsroom Stewart Gillies News Reference Team

Introducing the Newsroom Stewart Gillies News Reference Team Leader

Newsroom at the British Library www. bl. uk 2

Boston Spa Reading Room www. bl. uk 3

National Newspaper Building www. bl. uk 4

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National Newspaper Building www. bl. uk 6

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 www. bl. uk 7

News collections - Newspapers The British Library’s News Collection comprises an extensive archive of newspapers dating back to the early C 17 th including: • 34, 000 titles • 60 million issues • 660, 000 volumes • 630, 000 microfilm reels • 11 million digitised pages www. bl. uk 8

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 www. bl. uk 9

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 Avvisi Di Mantova 1722 -94 Gazette [T. Renaudot] 1631 - 52 etc Gazeta de Lisboa 1716 -24 etc Gazette de Cologne 1743 -44 etc Journal Politique de Bruxelles 1779 -81 Gazette Ordinaire D’Amsterdam 1667 Gazeta De Zaragoza 1705 -30 www. bl. uk PENP. NT 352 PENP. NT 346 PENN. NT 370 PENN. NT 316 PENN. NT 317 PENN. NT 372 PENN. NT 366 PENP. NT 346 10

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 www. bl. uk 11

News Collections: Selected Electronic Resources • • • 17 th and 18 th 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 http: //www. bl. uk/eresources/newspapers/colindale 2. htm l www. bl. uk 12

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) www. bl. uk 13

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) www. bl. uk 14

News collections – Broadcast News www. bl. uk 15

BBC Catalogue - Pilot BBC Catalogue at the BL provides: • 2. 2 million catalogue records of Radio & TV programmes broadcast from 1950 s 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 www. bl. uk 16

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. www. bl. uk 17

Thank you - any questions? Ask the Reference Team: www. bl. uk/reference-contacts Reader Workshops: www. bl. uk/reader-workshops News Media http: //www. bl. uk/subjects/news-media Twitter: @BL_Ref_Services www. bl. uk 18