Thursday, October 23, 2008

Extra! Extra! Newspaper Research Workshop on Oct. 28

Extra! Extra! You Can Overcome Frustration with Newspaper Research!


This session examines ways to find current and historical articles in newspapers. We'll look at online indexes and collections of digitized newspapers, as well as explore old-fashioned ways to dig in the newspaper archives. In this workshop, you will:
· Become familiar with the odd nature of newspaper indexing
· Effectively search online newspaper indexes
· Effectively use non-online resources for locating older articles
· Find, display, and print articles from the library's online newspaper collections
· Find, display, and copy articles from the library's microformat collection of newspapers

Tuesday, Oct. 28 @ 4 PM
Location: Classroom A, First Floor, Melville Library

Register @ http://www.stonybrook.edu/library/services/instruction/.

All workshops take place in classroom A in the Central Reading Room and last about one hour, unless otherwise noted.

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