Library of Congress does a certain amount of major newspaper archiving and produces microfilm for libraries et.al., but a lot of smaller local papers aren’t covered. I was thinking about our island newspaper which is microfilmed but not indexed (searchable) past 1974, and is an important local history archive. Even the paper itself does not keep back copies, only the local libraries do, and only one library keeps back issues longer than one year.
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