Answer to Question of the Day 

Question of the Day: 

A How should one go about finding Newspaper articles in a library? 

B. How would one find a New York Times article published in the 1920's?

C. Find  the following newspaper article from the New York 
Times "Exploration of World Wide Web Tilts From Eclectic to Mundane" by Amy Harmon.  Aug 26, 2001.using the SMC Library database

Answer: 

A. Find out if the library carries a newspaper index:  NNI - National Newspaper Index, The New York Times Index,  Lexis-Nexis.  For SMC see http://www2.smcvt.edu/library/articles/newspapers.htm  Web sites   ---   some newspapers allow searching of their web archives, but limit the search by years, or charge for articles  

B. Use the New York Times Print Index or New York Times Historical Database 1850 - 2002)

C.  SMC Library uses Lexis-Nexis and the New York Times Index  to search for newspaper articles.