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New newspapers on Trove

Newspaper titles recently added to Trove, free Australian newspapers online http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper

Queensland

• Chronicle and North Coast Advertiser (Qld. : 1903 - 1922)

• The North Queensland Register (Townsville, Qld. : 1892 - 1905)

• The Northern Mining Register (Charters Towers, Qld. : 1891 - 1892)

• Queensland Figaro (Brisbane, QLD : 1883 - 1885)

• Queensland Figaro (Brisbane, QLD : 1923 - 1936)

• Queensland Figaro and Punch (Brisbane, QLD : 1885 - 1916)

• Warwick Examiner and Times (St. Lucia, Qld. : 1867 - 1919)

• The Western Champion (Barcaldine, Qld. : 1922 - 1937)

Tasmania

• The Clipper (Hobart, Tas. : 1893 - 1909) Title funded by Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office

• Zeehan and Dundas Herald (Hobart, Tas. : 1890 - 1922) Title funded by Tasmanian Archive  and Heritage Office

South Australia

·         Some South Australian German language newspapers from 1850s and 60s are being loaded

More microfilm available: level 3 reading room

Are you frustrated at having to order microfilm from the repository?

Good news! Much more film is on the shelves leading into the reading room at the back of level 3.

Most of the titles are newspapers:

• the major Australian dailies such as the Australian, Australian Financial Review and West Australian
• The New Zealand Herald
• Queensland titles including 21 titles for the Burnett region.

How to find out what is now available in the reading room.

Check the cataloguehttp://onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au/  There is an option to use the previous catalogue if you are more comfortable with it.

Use the name of the town or region, 'newspapers' and 'microform'. If you search for 'Burnett' without adding 'newspapers' and 'microform' you will get 976 titles instead of the 21 newspaper titles.

If the location code is MFS/B the microfilm is on the newly available shelving as you walk into the reading room.

If the location code is MFS the microfim is inside the reading room.

We also have booklets in the reading room listing newspapers by title and newspapers by place. 

The newspapers extend beyond the Trove cutoff date of 1954, in hard copy if not on film.

There is of course much, much more available......

Check:

our website http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/info/fh

our Info Guides http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/about/pub/info_guides/collections/fh

our special indexes http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/info/fh#electronic

our selection of other useful websites http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/info/fh/websites

When you visit remember to bring your memory stick!

British Newspaper Archive - new website

The British Newspaper Archive was officially launched this week.

Over the next 10 years approximately 40 million newspaper pages will be digitised from the British Library's collection. Articles can be searched by keyword, name, location and date. 

http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/help/about

Please note this is a pay-per-view website.

Queenslanders, remember you can access another great British newspaper database, 19th Century British Library Newspapers with your State Library of Queensland e-services card. 

http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/find/articles/databases_news

More digitised Australian newspapers coming soon!

The National Library's Australian Digitisation Program has released a list of newspapers to be digiitised for this financial year. These titles will be searchable online athttp://www.trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper

 Titles for QLD include:

• The Capricornian (Rockhampton)
• The Central Queensland Herald
• The Worker

For the full listing go to - http://www.nla.gov.au/ndp/selected_newspapers/Future_Titles.html

Don't forget the State Library of Queensland holds an extensive range of Queensland newspapers on microfilm.

Index to Maryborough obituaries

The Maryborough Family Heritage Research Institute have indexed obituaries from the Maryborough newspaper "The Alert" between 1928 and 1939. (1938 is missing)

http://www.treeroots.com.au/indexes.html

Auckland Star newspaper now on Papers Past

Editions of the "Auckland Star" newspaper (1870 -1903) have been digitised and can be viewed online through Papers Past - http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/

"The Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette" (1901-1945) is also another recent addition to the site.

NEW DATABASE - 19th Century British Library Newspapers

The State Library of Queensland has now subscribed to:

19th Century British Library Newspapers 

A rich collection of primary source material, this database provides full runs of 48 titles from the 19th-century, totaling more than two million easily searchable pages. This is a fantastic resource for family historians tracing their English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish ancestors.

This database can be used offsite (ie. at home) by e-services members or Queensland public library (QPL) account holders. Offsite access is only available to Queenslanders.You can connect to the database at:

http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/find/articles/offsite

Queenslanders can register for an e-service cards at:

http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/services/ecard

Historical Brisbane newspapers at SLQ

Historical Brisbane newpapers at the State Library of Queensland

Many researchers forget that historically Brisbane had many newspapers aside from the longstanding Courier Mail.

It is worth examining these rival newspapers as they can contain stories or notices not published in the Courier.

One example is The Truth which regularly published local scandals such as divorce, bigamy, adultery and murder.

Some examples of Brisbane newspapers:

• The Telegraph - 1872 to 1988
• Daily Mail - 1903 to 1933
• The Truth (later titled Sunday Sun) - 1900 to 1992
• The Week - 1876 to 1934
• Moreton Bay Free Press - 1852 to 1859 (imperfect run)
• Queensland Guardian - 1860 to 1868
• The Queenslander - 1866 to 1939
• Evening Observer - 1887 to 1926 (imperfect run)

These titles and more are available on microfilm at the State Library of Queensland. For further information phone us on (07) 3840 7810 or visit our website at http://www.slq.qld.gov.au