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News media at the British Library
ALISS visit, 20 April 2015
Luke McKernan
Lead Curator, News and Moving Image
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News at the British Library
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Newspapers
57,000 separate newspaper, journal, and periodical titles: approximately 100m issues (of which 60m are newspapers), from 17thC to today
Current acquisition: 1,400 newspaper and weekly/fortnightly periodical titles
Print copies acquired under legal deposit but will move increasingly towards digital acquisition
Physical access at St Pancras (print newspapers, microfilm) and Boston Spa (print newspapers), with digital access at both locations
Around one third of collection is on microfilm. If we have microfilm or digital copy, we don’t provide access to print copy
Online access to 11m newspaper pages via British Newspaper Archive (http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.com)
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Newspaper collection highlights
Thomason Tracts – 7,200 Civil War and other 17thC newsbooks and newspapers
Burney Collection – 700 bound volumes of newspapers 1603-1818
British and Irish newspapers collected under legal deposit since 1869
Overseas newspapers from 1631 onwards, with extensive British Commonwealth titles (c.90 titles currently received)
Press cuttings inc Chatham House Press Library Collection
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Newspapers – electronic resources
1.5m newspapers and news-related journals available onsite via subscription services e.g. ProQuest, Gale Cengage, Newsbank
Includes Times Digital Archive, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Guardian/Observer, Times of India, World Newspaper Archive, Early American Newspapers, Latin American newspapers
International newspapers represented for Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe and Russia, Australasia, Middle East
Also many free newspaper sources: Gallica, Chronicling America, Trove, Papers Past, NewspapersSG
Access onsite only
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National Newspaper BuildingBoston Spa, Yorkshire
33km of shelving 280,000 volumes 14-15% oxygen 20m-high stacks Robotic retrieval Officially opened
January 2015 Riding the robots
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Newspapershttp://www.bl.uk/subjects/news-media
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British Newspaper Archivehttp://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
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Television and radio news
Began recording television and radio news programmes receivable in the UK in May 2010
Collection now over 57,000 programmes, of which 45,000 are TV, recorded off-air from 22 channels inc. BBC, Al-Jazeera, Russia Today, CNN, CCTV (China), NHK, Bloomberg, France 24, World Service, LBC
40 hours of TV and 22 hours of radio captured per day
Born digital archive, including Electronic Programme Guide data and subtitles where available
Recording many extra programmes for 2015 General Election
Access onsite only, owing to copyright restrictions, via Broadcast News service
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Web news
Non-print legal deposit legislation introduced in April 2013 means British Library can now harvest and archive UK websites
Initial annual crawl collected from 4.5M .uk websites and web pages – 1.9bn URLs
Harvesting over 1,100 UK news websites on daily/weekly basis, with particular interest in hyperlocal news
Targeting of particular news events e.g. death of Nelson Mandela, including social media
Access onsite only at British Library and other legal deposit libraries
Small number of sites available to all via UK Web Archive – http://www.webarchive.org.uk
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UK Web Archivehttp://www.webarchive.org.uk
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The Newsroom
Main reading room for news media
Opened at St Pancras site March 2014 – on Floor 2
Reading room with networking annexe
Provides access to newspapers (digital, microfilm and print), television, radio and Web news
Access to print newspapers only where a ‘surrogate’ copy (digital or microfilm) does not exist. Delivery of print newspapers takes 48 hours
An expression of intent, bringing together all of the news media in the one place
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The Newsroom
“Open for business”
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Contact
Luke McKernan – Lead Curator, News & Moving Image [email protected]
Stephen Lester – Newspaper Curator [email protected]
Web - http://www.bl.uk/subjects/news-media
Blog - http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/thenewsroom
Twitter - @BL_newsroom
General enquiries [email protected] [email protected]
