NEWSPLAN London and the South East

History and Society Through Local Newspapers
in London and the South East

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Advice on Searching the Database

Since the database of local newspaper titles in London & the South East was compiled there have been many changes to titles, especially in location information (partly as a result of local government reorganisation). At present there are insufficient financial resources to edit and update the database of titles.

When seeking more specific information on a title and its location found in the database, therefore, users are advised also to check via the Contacts and People page on this website if any details concerning a title have changed more recently. Click on the relevant public authority(ies) listed on the Contacts and People page and you will be referred direct to the e-mail address of the person or department responsible for newspaper collections in that authority’s libraries or archives (this will be the most recent listing of responsibility notified to us).

Some of the titles in the database have numerals and letters cited following the dates of holdings. These indicate the condition of microfilms and printed copies notified at the time the database was compiled. Their key is as follows.

Checklist of faults found in newspaper files at the time of the creation of the database

Category 1 – Physical condition of the newspapers – e.g., pages discoloured, torn, creased, rippled; paper crumbling; paper damp; unskilled repairs, using inappropriate material.

Category 2 – Physical condition of bindings – e.g., binding loose, spine broken, boards loose; different sized pages not properly protected.

Category 3 – Defects in a particular newspaper set – e.g., missing issues or supplements; bound in wrong order; variant editions not consistently present; text losses as a result of trimming pages.

Category 4 – Storage conditions – e.g., insecure; environmentally poor; infestation; building dangerous; difficult access (for retrieval of volumes).

Checklist of faults found in microfilm of newspapers

Category A – Faults in the original copies – e.g., pages dirty, creased, torn; some issues too fragile for filming; tightly bound volume, text lost in gutters.

Category B – Faults in the filming – e.g., image over-reduced or blurred; text obscured or lost; poor lighting (shadows or shine); uneven density (faintness, darkness); frames not in same orientation (upside down, mixture of cine and comic modes); lead film too short; inappropriate splits between reels (e.g., part way through a month or issue).

Category C – Physical defects of film – e.g., chemical impurities, causing speckling; poor quality film; crude splicing, preventing free flow of film through a microfilm reader.

Category D – Bibliographical faults – e.g., issues filmed in wrong order; supplements filmed with wrong titles or issues; inconsistent filming of changed pages; incomplete issues filmed; unrelated titles filmed together; unsatisfactory bibliographic targets and box labels.

Category E – Negatives – e.g., used as service copies; stored with positive microfilm copies; stored in poor environment; not produced in conformity with correct British Standard.

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NEWSPLAN London and the South East

History and Society Through Local Newspapers in London and the South East

History and Society Through Local Newspapers
in London and the South East