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INDEX NAME: The Arkansas Gazette Index; An Arkansas Index. |
NEWSPAPERS INDEXED:
- ARKANSAS GAZETTE Little Rock AR 1819-1842;1964-Current
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COMPILER: Shannon J. Henderson |
LOCATION or PUBLISHER: |
ARKANSAS TECH UNIVERSITY Library Russellville AR 72801 Telephone: (501) 968-0288
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AVAILABILITY: Copies are available for purchase from Arkansas Tech University Library. Write for prices. Annual indexes are available for each year 1965-1977. Retrospective indexes are available covering 1819-1829 and 1830-1839 (in preparation). Copies of the index and corresponding newspapers are available for public use at the Arkansas Tech University Library. |
SCOPE OF INDEX: Concerned primarily with materials about Arkansas people, places and events. Included are all items deemed to be of statewide interest. Residents of other states are includes if they have an Arkansas background. National news is indexed only if Arkansas people are directly involved in the events. Letters to the editor and editorials are indexed selectively. Obituaries of prominent Arkansans are included. Omitted are routine sports and social events. |
FORMAT OF INDEX: The current year of the index is a card file which is retyped into a book format when the year ends. The book's pages are 8½x11-inch in size and run to about 300 pages. The index entry is a brief description of the article, usually not the headline. The citation furnishes the month, day, section, page and column. |
SIZE OF INDEX: Current indexes average about 16,000 entries per year. |
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
1. "Teacher compiles Arkansas Gazette index since 1965," Editor and Publisher, v 104, #2, 1971, p22
2. "Librarian indexes news items in Arkansas daily," Publishers Auxiliary, Sept 4 1971, p 3.
3. "Librarian compiles index of Gazette," Arkansas Gazette, Feb 6 1972, sec E, p 5, col 2.
4. Anita Cheek Milner. NEWSPAPER INDEXES: A LOCATION & SUBJECT GUIDE FOR RESEARCHERS. Scarecrow Press, Metuchen NJ, 1977.
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LATHROP REPORT ON NEWSPAPER INDEXES. 1979-1980 Edition. Copyright © 1979 by Norman Lathrop Enterprises. ISBN 0-910868-10-7. All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the prior expressed permission of Norman Lathrop Enterprises, except as permitted by law.
Every effort was made to ensure the accuracy of the report at the time of publication.
However, it is imperative that the user contact the organization cited in a report for the current status of the index, especially if planning to visit the institution and do research using the index.
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