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| INDEX NAME: Index to St.Louis Newspapers |
NEWSPAPERS INDEXED:
- COMMERCE MAGAZINE St.Louis MO 1978-Current
- METRO-EAST JOURNAL East St.Louis IL 1978-Current
- ST.LOUIS ARGUS St.Louis MO 1975-Current
- ST.LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT St.Louis MO 1975-Current
- ST.LOUIS JEWISH LIGHT St.Louis MO 1976-Current
- ST.LOUIS MAGAZINE St.Louis MO 1978-Current
- ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH St.Louis MO 1975-Current
- ST.LOUIS SENTINEL St.Louis MO 1975-Current
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| LOCATION or PUBLISHER: |
ST.LOUIS PUBLIC LIBRARY
1301 Olive St
St.Louis MO 63103
Telephone: (314) 241-2288
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| AVAILABILITY: A published index. Annual subscriptions, which include 10 monthlies, a six-month cumulation and an annual cumulation, are available for $135 per year. |
| SCOPE OF INDEX: This index includes St.Louis, metropolitan St.Louis, and regional news of Missouri, Illinois, and Arkansas. The types of news stories indexed include major news stories and features; local editorials; local by-line columnists; reports on major crime or accidents; local statistics and opinion polls; clubs and organizations; annual events; traditional events; history & historic sites; awards; population characteristics; significant community and neighborhood information; record-breaking events; major sports championships and player biographies; government and politics; unusual weather; business information; housing information; articles in a series; and election results for the Metropolitan area. Material normally excluded from the index includes: births; engagements; weddings; deaths (unless a well known person and the subject of a separate article); national columns; national wire service news; cooking; gardening; helpful hints; most reviews; routine sports events; and letters to the editor unless written by a well-known person. |
| FORMAT OF INDEX: A book form index arranged in three alphabetical sections: SUBJECTS (including geographic and corporate names), PERSONAL NAMES, and OBITUARIES. Entries consist of the citation first, followed by the headline or a brief description of the article. The citation includes the month, day, newspaper, page, and section. The abbreviation "il" indicates an illustration, photo or map. "Ed" indicates an editorial. This index is produced with the assistance of a computer in both storing and manipulating the data base and in producing the phototypeset pages. |
| SIZE OF INDEX: About 48,000 entries per year. |
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
1. James J. Michael. "To clip or not to clip - that is the question", PLA Newsletter, Spring 1977.
2. Anita Cheek Milner. NEWSPAPER INDEXES: A LOCATION & SUBJECT GUIDE FOR RESEARCHERS. Scarecrow Press, Metuchen NJ, 1977.
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SAMPLE ILLUSTRATION:
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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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