The Ross Pendergraft Library and Technology Center is test driving a new source of newspapers, both historical and current, with NewsBank. Read all about it here:
http://infoweb.newsbank.com/best/febhp
The collection features a search box that you can use to find the What, When, Where, and Why’s of the world from both today’s news and historical newspapers.
Explore results from national newspapers, college newspapers, state and local papers, plus videos, audio, and other formats.
Explore the “hot topics” section to find focused news on Hispanic Life in America, Black Life in America, the San Francisco Chronicle Collection, and the Cannabis NewsHub Research Edition. You can browse newspaper results by subject or location. Sources also include newspapers from around the world, in multiple languages.
Want to find something closer to home? The database includes access to 93 newspapers in Arkansas, including the Arka Tech, the Courier, the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, the Arkansas Times, and college and city newspapers from all over the state.
Currently, the only way you can read back issues of the state’s newspaper, the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, is to use microfilm or browse the bound copies from more recent years. This interface finally makes searching and accessing the state’s newspaper of record online possible within the library.
Give it a try between now and Feb. 29th when the trial ends. You can let us know what you think by emailing us, texting us, calling us, chatting with us, or whisper-yelling your feedback to us from inside the library.
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