...Sixty million people listened to Roosevelt's first radio address; the next day, per the Roosevelt Library, "newspapers around the country reported long lines of people waiting to put their money back into the banks.
Herbert Hoover had averaged 5,000 letters a week; FDR got 50,000, according to "FDR's First 100 Days," a publication by the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum....Sixty million people listened to Roosevelt's first radio address; the next day, per the Roosevelt Library, "newspapers around the country reported long lines of people waiting to put their money back into the banks.
To delve into her life, Stern studied undergrad scrapbooks preserved by the library, newspaper clippings and other original materials with assistance from college archivist Eileen Keating.
In his 2001 essay, Double Fold, Baker launched a broadside against the worldwide movement to replace library newspaper archives with microfiche copies: "Many librarians have managed to convince themselves, and us, that if a newspaper was printed after 1870 or so it will inevitably self-destruct or turn to dust any minute".
Once upon a time, if you wanted to buy a franchise, you might have found an ad in the paper, like the one that appeared in a 1949 New York Times issue, which I recently found while combing through some online library newspaper archives.
You had to search obsessively — through libraries, newspapers, goodness knows where else — for other examples of the word.
The project, which was launched at the Erskine Veteran's hospital, will use records from libraries, newspapers and regimental museums.
The NHGIS specifically provides spatially aggregated census data: data summarizing individuals within particular areas, such as states or counties, where the "individuals" might be persons, housing units, farms, libraries, newspapers or any other features that were at some point counted in a U.S. census.
To date, many local and national business firms, churches, libraries, newspapers and public agencies have reduced their data acquisition costs by utilizing the Census Data Center services.
As a young gay man living in a small, conservative town in the pre-Internet era, I scoured the library and newspapers thoroughly for any inkling that other people were or might have been gay.
If your local library obtains newspapers from cities across the country, you can use them as resources to find federal job opportunities in other cities, should you wish to relocate.
