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This report is extracted from the 1000 Section (Confirmed Newspaper Indexes) of the 1979-1980 Edition of LATHROP REPORT ON NEWSPAPER INDEXES: An illustrated guide to published and unpublished newspaper indexes in the United States and Canada.   Either a compiler, publisher or repository had confirmed the existance of this index and supplied information for the report. See the INTRODUCTION for the methodology used in compiling the LATHROP REPORT.
REPORT NO:  1200A Previous Report (1199A)  |  Next Report (1201A)
INDEX NAME:  St.Paul Dispatch and Pioneer Press Newspaper Index
NEWSPAPERS INDEXED:
  • ST.PAUL DISPATCH St.Paul MN 1967-Current
  • ST.PAUL LIFE St Paul MN 1967-1968
  • ST.PAUL PIONEER PRESS St.Paul MN 1967-Current
LOCATION or PUBLISHER: ST.PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARY
Reference Room
90 W. Fourth St
St.Paul MN 55102
Telephone: (612) 224-3383
AVAILABILITY:  A published index. Printed copies are available in 10 monthly installments and two six-month cumulations per year. The cost is $120 per year for public (non-profit) institutions and $160 per year to others. Copies of the index are available for public use in the St.Paul Public Library.
SCOPE OF INDEX:  The index is restricted to news about the St.Paul metropolitan area, Ramsey County, state issues, and residents of the state which are currently involved in national or international affairs. Categories indexed include government, cultural, business, organization, church, school and college news. Major crime, fire, and human interest articles are indexed. Editorials on local issues are indexed. All obituaries which appear in the news pages of the paper are included. The indexing is specific and proper names are used whenever possible. Group headings (broad subject headings) are used only when the article is very general. Subjects which are not proper names are indexed under the terms used by the newspaper, with some modification for uniformity. All individuals mentioned are indexed unless they are only included in a list of people present at an event. All individuals shown in photographs are indexed.
FORMAT OF INDEX:  This book form index is produced using punched cards. Each punched card consists of a short subject heading, followed by the citation and headline. In printed form, the index has the subject headings in alphabetical order down the left side of the page. Following the subject is the citation, which consists of the date (year-month-day), aperture card number, newspaper code, section, and page. Then the headline (or as much of it as will fit) is listed. Originally, the index was designed to be an index to a set of aperture cards. News articles which met the selection criteria were clipped, microfilmed on 35mm film, and mounted in one (or more) aperture cards. These cards were all marked with the date of the newspaper and then a sequence number depending upon how many cards were needed for one days paper. This date and sequence number is part of what appears in the citation. However, since the citation also includes the page number where the article originally appeared, the index is also a guide to the original newspaper. Illustrations, reviews and editorials are noted within the index entry. The current index is printed on 8½x11 inch paper in one A to Z arrangement with both subjects and personal names interfiled. Earlier indexes had a special section for state legislative news.
SIZE OF INDEX:  A current 6-month cumulation has about 37,000 entries.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
1. Serials Review, Oct/Dec 1976, p 27.
2. Les Mattison. NEWSPAPER INDEXING IN MINNESOTA; A FEASIBILITY STUDY COMMISSIONED BY THE PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE OF THE MINNESOTA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. Bemidji State College Library, July 1970.
3. 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.