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| INDEX NAME: Jersey Journal Index |
NEWSPAPERS INDEXED:
- JERSEY JOURNAL Jersey City NJ 1968(Jul 1)-Current
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| LOCATION or PUBLISHER: |
JERSEY CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY
New Jersey Room
472 Jersey Ave
Jersey City NJ 07302
Telephone: (201) 547-4503
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| AVAILABILITY: Only one copy of this card file index exists. It must be used in the Jersey City Public Library. |
| SCOPE OF INDEX: The index covers matters of public interest occuring in Jersey City, Hudson County, state of New Jersey, and the New York metropolitian area (in that order of priority). Entries are made for both subjects and personal names. Death notices are indexed when the deceased had some measure of public recognition. Excluded from the index are high school and college sports, most professional sports and routine club news. NOTE: Occasionally other papers and earlier years were indexed for a special item. These other papers may include: Hudson Dispatch; Dispatch; Jersey Observer; New York Times; Newark Star-Ledger; Newark Evening News; and the Newark Sunday News Magazine. |
| FORMAT OF INDEX: A 3x5 card file index which uses colored cards to designate types of information. The WHITE cards are index entry cards. GREEN cards are filing guides or subject heading cards. However, there is NOT a green card for every subject heading. YELLOW cards are cross reference guides. Index cards are filled both by subject and by geography. For Hudson County and for each of the Hudson County municipalities, a separate alphabetic arrangement is used. For the rest of the index, no geographic prefix is used. Thus, an article on sports in Jersey City would be filed under JERSEY CITY--SPORTS. However, an article on sports from outside Hudson County would be filed under SPORTS. All of the entries on a single index card are from the same newspaper and year. A code for the paper (jj) and the year are shown in the upper right hand corner of the card. The entries are then arranged in chronological order on each card, starting with the month, day and page number, followed by the headline and (if necessary) an annotation. |
| SIZE OF INDEX: About 800 entries per month are added to the current index, which occupies about 9 file drawers. |
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
1. Anita Cheek Milner. NEWSPAPER INDEXES: A LOCATION & SUBJECT GUIDE FOR RESEARCHERS. Scarecrow Press, Metuchen NJ, 1977.
2. Joseph C. Scorza. NEWSPAPER INDEXING IN NEW JERSEY: SUMMARY RESULTS OF A SURVEY OF PUBLIC LIBRARIES. Reference Section, New Jersey Library Association, New Brunswick NJ, October 1975.
3. R.W. Stewart. "Notes on some New Jersey newspaper indexes". N.J. Libraries (new series), v.1, p.5-9, Winter 1968.
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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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