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News and Microforms Library

Resources

NEWSCAT (Penn State access to newspapers, online, paper, microformats by geography, time period or language)

Microforms Collection Guide Locator (Guides to microform collections)

Centre Daily Times Indices (CDT Obituaries 1937-1995 & 2010-2011 and CDT Index, 1981- 2002)

Did You Know? (Watch NML's videos and learn more)

NYTimes.com Academic Passes (PSU students ONLY)

Penn State Student Newspaper Readership Program

 

Contact

News & Microforms Library
21 W Pattee (ground floor of Pattee Library, West Entrance, near MacKinnon's Cafe)
814-863-0377

Eric Novotny, Acting Head George and Sherry Middlemas Arts and Humanities Library and Acting Head News and Microforms Library
ecn1@psu.edu
814-865-1014

or Your Campus Librarian

 

Did You Know? Penn State Edition - Video Text

Did you know? Penn State Edition

Text: The Daily Collegian started in 1887 as the Free Lance.

Image: Scan of The Free Lance with indecipherable old-fashioned style cursive writing at the top.

Text: And, in the 1950's freshman were required to wear a Dink to be easily recognized.

Image: Black and white photo of tow young men wearing caps with short bills.

Text: The News and Microforms Library.

You can ready today's copy of the Daily Collegian on campus...

...and over 200 year of archived copies at the News and Microforms Library.

Did you know? Penn State Edition

You can learn about Penn State student life by reading the digital archives...

Image: The old Free Lance logo - black and white ink drawn ribbon with The Free Lance written on it. April 1887 to April 1904.

Image: The State Collegian logo with the dates September 28, 1904 to June 10, 1911

Image: The Penn State Collegian logo with the dates September 28, 1911 to August 2, 1940

Image: The Daily Collegian logo with the dates September 5, 1940 to present

Text: Did you know? Penn State Edition

In the late 60's, women couldn't visit men living in off-campus apartments unless three other couples were present...

So, they protested.

Image: Black and white photo of female students holding signs and wearing sandwich boards.

Text: Reading about the past, helps you learn about the future...

Find old newspapers with the help of The News and Microforms Library.

Check out what else The News and Microforms Library has to offer!

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Design: Veronica Bautista
Content: Chris Adams

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