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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Indexes) of the 1979-1980 Edition of LATHROP REPORT ON NEWSPAPER INDEXES: An illustrated guide to published and unpublished newspaper indexes in the United States and Canada.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:  1248A Previous Report (1247B)  |  Next Report (1249A)
INDEX NAME:  Daily Illini Spectrum Index
NEWSPAPERS INDEXED:
  • DAILY ILLINI Urbana IL 1961-1973
LOCATION or PUBLISHER: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
Newspaper Library
Urbana IL 61801
Telephone: (217) 333-1509
AVAILABILITY:  Only one copy of this index exists. It must be used in the Newspaper Library (University of Illinois Library).
SCOPE OF INDEX:  This is a chronological and subject index to the special feature supplement SPECTRUM which was a part of the DAILY ILLINI (the student newspaper at the University of Illinois).
FORMAT OF INDEX:  Both a book form and a card form index. The book form index is typed on 8½x11 inch pages and is divided into two parts. There is a 16-page chronology that lists the month, day, and year of each article, followed by the headline and/or a brief description. There is also a 7-page subject section in which subject terms are followed by the month, day, and year of any articles dealing with that subject. In addition, there is a 3x5 card file index arranged in alphabetical order by subject. Each card consists of a subject heading, the headline and/or a brief description of the article, and the month, day, and year.
SIZE OF INDEX:  There are approximately 350 subject entries and 325 chronological entries.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
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.