Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, available from the Library of Congress, includes a directory of all American newspapers as well as libraries' holdings.
OCLC FirstSearch, accessible through MeL, provides access to the newspaper holdings of many OCLC member libraries.
The MNP office at the Library of Michigan is also available for assistance in locating newspapers.
Information on obtaining microfilm copies of Michigan newspapers.
Copies of microfilm can only be made by the institution or company which owns the master negative. Generally, the leader of the microfilm will indicate who created the microfilm and who likely owns the master copy. Some of the larger collections of Michigan newspapers masters are held by the Library of Michigan, Central Michigan University's Clarke Library, ProQuest/UMI, the Center for Research Libraries, and Heritage Microfilm.
In early 2005 the National Endowment for the Humanities announced the creation of the National Digital Newspaper Program . Building on the foundation of the USNP, this new program will digitize and make accessible newspapers from all U.S. states and territories published between 1836 and 1922. The first round of six state projects began in mid-2005 with more states added each year.
NEH created its United States Newspaper Program (USNP) in the early 1980s in response to needs expressed by scholars studying the nation's history, politics, and sociology, as well as other areas of common interest such as genealogy and local history. NEH chose to concentrate on newspapers because they provide one of the largest and most comprehensive bodies of original materials conveying the story of our country. Additionally, newspapers represent all spectrums of society, ranging from small towns, counties and regions, to large cities and the entire country, as well as women, the military, and numerous minority communities. Finally, newspapers were selected because the information professions, including libraries, had traditionally not addressed the myriad issues unique to collecting, managing, and providing newspapers for use by scholars or the general public.
In the mid-1980s, the first grants for state-wide USNP projects were awarded. These grants are normally given to the institution which has its state's largest newspaper collection. Grants have been given to historical societies, and state, public, and academic libraries. In Michigan, the Michigan Newspaper Project is based at the Library of Michigan.
Projects have been funded in every state, and in the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
http://www.loc.gov/preserv/care/newspap.html
An article from the Library of Congress that introduces the problems newspapers present and explains various conservation treatments.
http://www.mnhs.org/about/publications/techtalk/TechTalkMarch1997.pdf
An article on newspaper preservation from Minnesota Historical Society. (Requires Adobe Acrobat)
http://www.nedcc.org/resources/suppliers.php
A listing of archival product suppliers. Be sure to check out other areas of the NEDCC web page. Especially helpful are their Preservation Leaflets.
Updated 02/05/2008
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