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- The Library of Congress Online
Catalog.
- For PERIODICALS: Holdings information showing
issues received is being added (loose issues
since 7/99, bound items since 10/03). At first, this included only active
titles, those being currently received. Therefore, if you retrieve a record with no holdings information, it is likely
the Library has only older bound volumes in the Jefferson or Adams building.
- For NEWSPAPERS: Nearly complete Microfilm holdings are available for Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, District of Columbia, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Massachusetts, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania
(A-Harrisburg only), Puerto Rico, South Dakota, Utah, Virgin Islands and Wyoming.
- Since approximately May 2006, microfilm holdings are being added for microfilm received, both US and foreign. Master negative holdings are also included, if available. Almost all bound volume holdings have been added.
- The old Binding
List (1990-1998, Onsite
Access Only). This list of bound periodicals was kept
before the latest online catalog was installed. Gives call
number
and building location.
- Databases & E-Resources available:
- FirstSearch
(Onsite Access Only)
- Fulltext journals & newspapers.
- Google, searches the World
Wide Web.
- iResearch Reporter (formerly Sloth-reader)
- Mool,
customized Google searches (newspapers, shopping, jobs, etc.)
- Worldcat.org
- LARS is a system the Library of Congress started using to
bind periodicals in
1994. It is the most accurate list of what has been
bound.
Ask the
Librarians
in the Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room to search
it for you.
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