Information Resources at Madison Public Library

Quick Guide to Newspaper Articles and Newspapers

There are many ways you can go about finding newspapers and newspaper articles at the library.

Newspaper Articles

Local and national newspaper articles are available via the ProQuest newspaper database.

Use the ProQuest database to locate articles on a variety of topics from local or national newspapers and print them out or email them to yourself or a friend. Find search tips for ProQuest and example searches on our guide to Newspaper Articles from the ProQuest Database.

The database has interfaces in English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese, and Korean, and you can translate stories into other languages as well. The ProQuest database does not include classifieds, obituaries, and some news or weather features.

Another source for articles in The Capital Times and The Wisconsin State Journal is Madison.com

Full Issues of Newspapers

The library owns the following papers:

Newspaper	Location and Holdings
Afro-AmericanNewspaper (Washington D.C.)	South Madison, hold for one month
Badger Herald	Central, 1974 to present
Barron's	all location except South Madison, holdings vary (Central holds for three years)
Capital Times	all locations, holdings vary (Central holds 1917 to present)
Chicago Sun-Times	Central
Chicago Tribune (Daily)	all locations ecept Meadowridge, Sequoya, and South Madison, holdings vary
Chicago Tribune (Sun. only)	Central
Christian Science Monitor	Central and Monroe Street, holdings vary (Central holds 1992 to present)
Daily Cardinal	Central holds 1917 to present, with some gaps
Federal Jobs Digest	Central,six months
Investor's Business Daily	Central, six months
Isthmus	Central, 1991 to present with some back archives (many branches have current week copies for distribution)
Los Angeles Times	Central, 1 year
Madison Times	Central and South Madison, holdings vary (Central holds 1994 to present)
Miami Herald (Sun. only)	Central, six months
MilwaukeeJournal Sentinel (Daily)	Central, Lakeview, Monroe Street and Sequoya, holding vary (Central holds for one year)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Sun. only)	all locations, holdings vary (Central holds for one year)
Minneapolis Star & Tribune	Central, six months
National Ad Search	Central, one year
New York Times (late edition) Daily)	Central, Lakeview, Monroe Street and Sequoya, holdings vary (Central owns 1935 to present)
New York Times (Sun. only)	all locations except Meadowridge, holdings vary (Central holds 1935 to present)
Nuestra Comunidad in La Nacion	South Madison, hold for one month
Peoples Daily (Chinese)	Sequoya,hold for two months
People's Weekly World	Central,six months
San Francisco Examiner (Sun. only)	Central, six months
Simpson Street Press	South Madison, hold for one month
USA Today	Central, Hawthorne, Lakeview, Pinney, Sequoya (Central holds for one year)
Wall Street Journal (Eastern ed.)	all locations, holdings vary (Central holds from 1960 to present)
Washington Post	Central, one year
Wisconsin State Journal (Daily)	all locations, holdings vary (Central holds 1852 to present)

Other Wisconsin and National newspapers are kept at the State Historical Society Library or the Memorial Library on the University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus.

Classifieds

The Central Library of Madison Public Library keeps paper classifieds on file of all the papers it receives. In addition, many current classifieds can be located online on a specific newspaper's web site. To locate classified ads in a specific newspaper or all newspapers in a geographic region, try our recommended newspaper sites.

Obituaries

Obituaries in the Wisconsin State Journal can be obtained in a variety of ways. See our Quick Guide to Obituaries for more information.

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