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INDEX NAME: Billings Gazette Index |
NEWSPAPERS INDEXED:
- BILLINGS GAZETTE Billings MT 1976-Current
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COMPILER: Eastern Montana College Library Billings MT 59101 |
LOCATION or PUBLISHER: |
PARMLY BILLINGS LIBRARY 510 N. Broadway Billings MT 59101 Telephone: (406) 248-7391
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AVAILABILITY: Eight copies are currently produced. Subscriptions available for $400 per year from Parmly Billings Library. Both index and corresponding copies of the newspapers are available for public use in the library of Eastern Montana College. |
SCOPE OF INDEX: This index includes all Montana related articles appearing in the Billings Gazette. It includes obituaries, editorials, book reviews on books about Montana, personalities, hobbies, artists, concerts and all public events that would be of interest to the people of Montana. Routine articles which include important speakers, biographical material, 50th anniversaries or more, state tournaments...etc. are also included in the index. Omitted from the index are routine crime reports, routine court reports, routine accident reports (fatalities ARE listed under the name of the victim), routine fire reports, religious news, marriages, scholarships and awards, club news, sports news and routine statistical reports. |
FORMAT OF INDEX: Each entry consists of the subject heading, headline and citation (month, day, year, page and column). All obituaries are listed under the subject heading DEATHS followed by the names of the persons in alphabetical order. Output is all upper case letters on computer paper, with one entry per line. Subject headings often have a geographic subdivision appended to them. MONT=Montana; BLGS=Billings; BZMN=Bozeman; etc. |
SIZE OF INDEX: About 60 pages per monthly index. 671 pages/yr. |
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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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