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- Time Inc. (New York City, New York)
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- Time Warner
- Web page - We have internet page, and we supply content to Pathfinder,
our Time Inc. magazine presence, also to various corporate internet sites.
- The Research Center, Time Inc.
- Circulation - various magazines(Time, Fortune, Life, Instyle, etc) at
various levels of circulation
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- Total Staff - 50 on staff with a full time equivalency of 42
- 32 people do professional work, 8 are high-level paraprofessionals, and 10 are support
staff.
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- Titles are:
- Director
- Assistant Director
- Internet Specialist
- Database Manager
- Business Information
- Manager
- Central Research Manager
- Administrative Assistant
- Research Librarian
- Senior Research Assistant
- Research Assistant
- Database Librarian
- Database Assistant
- Cataloger, Archivist
- Library Clerk
- Editorial Clerk.
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- U.S. News and World Report (Washington, DC)
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- U. S. News and World Report, LP
- http://www.usnews.com
- Library and Information Services
- Circulation - 2.2 million weekly
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-
- Total Staff: 23
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- Reference: 9 fulltime (including the Assistant Director and the government
information manager, who also writes a feature) and 1 halftime reference librarian.
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- Index: 1 Index editor/database administrator, 1 indexer/abstractor, 1 halftime
database preparation clerk.
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- Technical services: 1 Print collection manager, 1 acquisitions librarian, 1
ILL/document delivery librarian, 1 subscription coordinator (for company), 1
- library clerk (library subscription management, check-in routing; also circulation,
shelving, etc.), 1 library technician (halftime).
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- Photo library: 1 supervisor, 1 full-time and 1 halftime photo library assistant
(catalog, file, answer queries)
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- 1 administrative assistant (helps in reference and supports budget/finance)
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- 1 Director
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- We provide research support for contributing writers as well asstaff. We manage the
book, subscription, newspaper and wire budgets for the news department. We negotiate
agreements with commercial vendors of our magazine. We participate in the magazine's
online ventures, from planning to ongoing operations.
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- Although we are definitely a part of the editorial department, unlike most newspapers,
we provide support for marketing and advertising, as well as other
departments, whenever we can and whenever it does not interfere with our editorial mission
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- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, Maryland)
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- Tribune Company
- http://www.sunspot.net
- Library and Information Services Department
- Circulation - 367,000(m-sat); 482,000(S)
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- Total Staff - 12
- Library
- 1 Full time Director, Library and Information Services (strategic
oversight of research, resources, and staff)
- 1 Full time Assistant Director, Collection Management (manages resources,
staff)
- 4 Full time Librarian I (professional position: research, database
development, training, Intranet)
1 Photo/Graphics Librarian (electronic archiving, photo collection maintenance)
5 Full time Collection Development Librarians (database archiving,
indexing, preservation, etc.)
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- ABC News (New York, New York)
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- ABC Incorporated; A division of the Walt Disney Company
- http://www.abcnews.com
- ABC News Research Center
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- Total Staff - 20
- 1 Full time Manager, Research Center and Information Services
- 1 Full time Supervisor, Online Information Services
- 1 Full time Supervisor, Research Services
- 9 Full time Information Specialists
- 1 Half time Information Specialist
- 6 Full time Research Assistants
- 1 Half time Research Assistant
Professional - 12.5 ; Support - 6.5 |
- USA Today
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- Gannett Co.
- http://www.usatoday.com
- Library & Research Service
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- Total Staff - 22
- 17 Full time Librarians
- 5 Part time Librarians
- 1 Director
- 1 Assistant Director
- 1 Library Coordinator
- 1 Administrative Services Librarian
- 14 FT librarians
- 4 PT librarians
- <
- We also have a fee-based service to the public and a copyright
permissions office.
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- The News and Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina)
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- McClatchy Newspapers group
- http://www.news-observer.com -
newspaper website
- http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/intranets/nerdpage/
- sample of their intranet page
- News Research Department (NRD)
- Circulation- daily: 150,951 ; Sunday: 202,913
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- Total Staff - 19
- 12 Full time
- 7 Part time
-
- NRD includes a fee based research and republishing operation; provide
computer assisted reporting for the newsroom
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- The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, Texas)
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- A. H. Belo Corporation
- http://www.dallasnews.com
- Reference Department
- Circulation - 478,181(m); 601,744(m-f); 564,124(m-sat); 785,934(S)
- Total Staff - 12 Full time; 5 Part time
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- Total Staff - 17
- 1 Full time Reference Editor
- 4 Full time Research Librarians
- 1 Full time Office Manger
- 1 Full time Senior Librarian - Text Database Manager
- 1 Full time Senior Librarian - Photo Database Manager
- 4 Full time Library Specialists
- 5 Part time Library Assistants
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- The San Diego Union-Tribune (San Diego, California)
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- Copley Newspapers
- http://www.uniontrib.com (SignOn
San Diego)
- Library
- Circulation - 372,081(m); 372,081(m-sat); 450,984(S)
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- Total Staff - 15
- 1 Full time Library Manager
- 1 Full time Research Supervisor
- 1 Full time Secretary
- 13 Full time Librarians (2 in photo library)
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- St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Missouri)
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- Pulitzer Publishing Company
- http://www.stlnet.com/postnet
- News Research Department
- Circulation - daily - 322,000 ; Sunday - 539,000
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- Total Staff - 14
- 1 Full time Library Director
- 1 Full time Assistant Library Director
- 1 Full time Photo Library Graphics Coordinator (early 1998)
- 10 Full time librarians
- 1 Part time clerical position (30 hours per week)
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- Four members of the library staff have MLS degrees ; Two other librarians
have masters in other fields ; Eight of the ten librarians have college degrees of one
type or another.
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- The San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco,
California)
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- The Chronicle Publishing Company
- http://www.sfgate.com
- Library
- Circulation - 486,977 (m); 459 ,637 (m-sat); 633, 513 (S)
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- Total Staff - 14
- 1 Full time Library Director
- 2 Full time Assistant Head Librarians
- 9 Full time Librarians
- 1 Part time librarians (30 hours per week)
- 1 Full time Knowledge Engineer
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- Staffed 24 hours, Sunday, 9am through Saturday, 5pm.
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- The Toronto Sun (Toronto, Ontario)
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- Sun Media Corporation group
- http://www.canoe.ca/Sunlib
- The Toronto Sun News Research Centre
- Circulation - daily: 228,731 ; Sunday: 403,118
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- Total Staff - 14
- 10 Full time
- 4 Part time
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- Toronto has three competing dailies and one daily financial; the Toronto
Sun used to have the "smallest" newspaper library of the four but now has the
largest; they operate revenue generating services such as calendar sales, royalties,
public research service, etc.; they have an Intranet and corporate database (SAVE system)
that includes all of the Suns (Edmonton, Calgary, Ottowa, Toronto and The London Free
Press.
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- The New York Times (New York, New York)
-
- The New York Times Company
- http://www.nytimes.com
- Editorial Reference Library
-
- Circulation - daily: 1,071,120 ; Sunday: 1,652,800
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- Total Staff - 11
- 9 Full time researchers/librarians
- 1 Part time clerk
- 1 News Research Manager
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- The Orange County Register (Santa Ana, California )
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- Freedom Communications, Incorporated
- http://www.ocregister.com
- News Research Center
- Circulation - 353,812 (m); 353, 812 (m-sat); 415,553 (S)
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- Total Staff - 11 (4 have MLS and 1 has PhD)
- 1 Full time Director of News Research
- 6 Researchers
- 2 Research Assistants
- 2 Part time in the InfoStore (a different department supervised by the
Dir. Of News Research)
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- Springfield Union-News & Sunday Republican (Springfield,
Massachusetts )
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- Newshouse
- No web site
- Library
- Circulation - 98,303 (m); 93,303 (m-sat); 147,021 (S)
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- Total Staff - 10 or 11
- 1 Full time librarian
- 2 Full time staff assistants
- 6 Part time staff assistants
- 1-2 Interns
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- Dayton Daily News ( Dayton, Ohio)
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- Cox Newspapers
- http://www.library.activedayton.com
- Library
- Circulation - daily: 158,295 ; Sunday: 211,698
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- Total Staff - 9
- 5 Full time employees
- 4 Part time employees
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- The Kansas City Star ( Kansas City, Missouri)
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- Knight-Ridder Inc.
- http://www.kcstar.com
- Library
- Circulation - daily: 279,305 ; Sunday: 416,812
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- Total Staff - 9
- 1 Full time Library Director
- 1 Full time Research Specialist
- 1 Full time Electronic Photo Indexer
- 2 Library Assistants
- 1 Nightside supervisor
- 3 Electronic indexers
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- Index from 10pm-6am so electronic copy is available at the same time as
the hard copy (in the morning); the library does not supply the web page, as the web
articles are treated as living documents while the electronic library is the copy of the
record.
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- National Public Radio
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- http://www.npr.org
- Reference Library; Broadcast Library; Music Library; Spoken Word Library
- Circulation - 25 million listeners
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- Total Staff - 9
- 2 Full time Reference Librarians
- 1 Part time Reference Librarian
- 5 Full time Broadcast Librarians
- 1 Full time Music Librarian
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- The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, North Carolina)
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- Knight Ridder
- http://www.charlotte.com
(newspaper web site but you can get to the library from there where you can search
articles and download articles for a fee)
- Library
- Circulation - daily: 236,050 ; Sunday: 301,412
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- Total Staff - 8
- 1 Full time Library Director
- 1 Full time Librarian
- 1 Full time Photo Librarian
- 4 Part time Library Assistants[researchers/enhancers] (20 hours per week)
- 1 Part time Library Clerk/Filer (10 hours per week)
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- Savannah Morning News (Savannah, Georgia)
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- Morris Communications Corp.
- http://www.savannahnow.com
- Research Hub
- Circulation - daily: ; Sunday:
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- Total Staff - 2
- 1 Head News Researcher
- 1 Assistant News Researcher
- Not presently open to the public but we do take some requests for
information. We will be electronically archiving sometime before the end of the year.
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- The Morning Call Newspaper (Allentown, Pennsylvania)
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- Times Mirror Company
- http://www.mcall.com
- Library
- Circulation - 127,550(m-f); 142,882(sat); 174,401(S)
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- Total Staff - 8
- 4 Full time Librarians
- 1 Full time Library Assistant
- 2 Full time Library Clerks
- 1 Part time Library Clerk
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, Colorado)
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- Scripps Howard
- http://www.InsideDenver.com
- Editorial Library
- Circulation - daily: 316,910 ; Sunday: 406,473
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- Total Staff - 8
- 3 Full time Librarians
- 1 Full time Library Director
- 1 Full time Assistant Library Director/Reference and Research Librarian
- 1 Full time Photo Librarian
- 2 Full time Library Assistants
- 1 Full time Text Database Assistant
- 1 Full time Text and NewsQuest Assistant NewsQuest is their revenue generating
public service)
- 3 Part time Library Assistants (30 hours, 30 hours, 24 hours) - shared
responsibilities as Text Database Assistants, Photo Assistants and Evening coverage.
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- Weekend coverage is focused on text and photo processing not research
assistance; emergency research requests require that either the Library Director or
Assistant Director be contacted at home; they also staff holidays with the same
philosophy; NewsQuest has allowed for the addition of the 24 hour position and must pay
for the staff member or they will lose the position.
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- The Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, Ohio)
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- http://www.dispatch.com
- Editorial Library
- Circulation - daily - 262,000 Sunday - 405,000
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- Total Staff - 7
- 1 Full time Chief Librarian
- 1 Full time News Researcher
- 5 Full time Library Assistants
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- Detroit Free Press (Detroit, Michigan)
-
- Knight-Ridder
- http://www.freep.com
- http://www.auto.com
- http://www.yakscorner.com
- Library
- Circulation - Daily (M-F) 384,624 ; Saturday - 620, 374 (jointly with
Detroit News) ; Sunday - 829,178 (jointly with Detroit News)
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- Total Staff - 7
- 1 Full time Coordinator of Library Technology
- 1 Full time Coordinator of Library Research
- 3 Librarians
- 2 Library Clerks
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- The Press-Enterprise/The Business Press (Riverside, California )
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- A. H. Belo Corporation
- http://www.pe.net
- http://www.press-enterprise.com/news/
(web edition)
- Library (also News Library and Editorial Library)
- Circulation - 162,551 (m-s); 170,748 (S)
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- Total Staff - 7 Full time (1 MLS, 2 Mas, 3 Bas, 1 substantial
college)
- 1 Full time Library Director
- 1 Full time Assistant Director
- 1 Full time Photo Librarian
- 4 Full time Librarians
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- also 1 Part time photo department clerk who works in conjunction with
library
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- The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
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- E. W. Scripps
- http://www.gomemphis.com
- The Commercial Appeal News Library
- Circulation - 206,028(m-f); 200,159(m-sat); 259,386(S)
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- Total Staff - 6
- 4 Full time Librarians (with MLS degrees)
- 2 Full time Library assistants
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- The Sacramento Bee (Sacramento, California)
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- McClatchy Newspapers
- http://www.sacbee.com/
- Editorial Library
- Circulation - daily - 276,758 ; Sunday - 346,261
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- Total Staff - 6
- 1 Full time Research Manager (Library Director)
- 5 Full time Library Assistants
Two library staffers have MLS degrees |
- San Antonio News-Express (San Antonio, Texas)
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- Hearst Newspapers
- http://www.express-news.net
- News Research Center
- Circulation - 2276,226(m-f), 273,103(m-sat), 374,425(S)
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- Total Staff - 6
- 1 Full time Editor, Information Services
- 1 Full time Assistant Editor, Information Services
- 1 Full time News Researcher
- 1 Full time Photo Librarian/News Researcher
- 1 Full time Database Librarian
- 1 Full time clerical position
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- The Boston Herald (Boston, Massachusetts)
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- Privately owned
- http://www.bostonherald.com (no
daily news content at present)
- Library
- Circulation: 284,794(m); 229,733(m-s); 196,442(S)
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- Total Staff - 5
- 1 Full time Librarian (MLS)
- 1 Full time Chief Librarian (MLS)
- 2 Full time Library Associates (1 with MLS)
- 1 Part time Library Associate
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- The Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma)
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- The Oklahoma Publishing Company
- http://www.connectok.com (archives
are on this site also)
- Information Center
- Circulation - daily - 212,000 Sunday - 307,000
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- Total Staff - 5
- 1 Full time Information Center Manager
- 1 Full time Information Center Assistant Manager
- 3 Full time Information Specialists
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- Assistant Manager is currently also acting as the photo specialist but
they hope hire additional person next year to fill this position
- Titles are misleading because everyone does everything
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- Greensboro News and Record (Greensboro, North Carolina)
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- Landmark Communications Inc. group
- http://www.greensboro.com/nronline
- Information Center
- Circulation - daily: 90,635 ; Sunday: 118,831
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- Total Staff - 5
- 1 Full time Information Center Manager
- 1 Full time Photo Archivist/Researcher
- 1 Full time Text Archivist/Researcher
- 1 Full time Database Analyst
- 1 Part time text enhancer
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- The Christian Science Monitor (Boston, Massachusetts)
-
- The Christian Science Monitor Publishing Society
- http://www.csmonitor.com
- Library
- Circulation - 78,233 (m)
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- Total Staff - 4
- 1 Full time Librarian
- 1 Full time Researcher
- 1 Full time Research Assistant
- 1 Full time Photo Archivist
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- Not open to the public but other papers may call
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- The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, California)
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- The New York Times Company
- http://www.pressdemo.com
- The Editorial Library
- Circulation - 92,940 (m); 92,940 (m-sat); 102,726(S)
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- Total Staff - 4
- 4 Full time library staff members
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- The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington)
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- Cowles Publishing Company
- http://www.VirtuallyNW.com
(Virtually Northwest)
- Newspaper Reference Library
- Circulation - 118,555 (m-sat); 146,623 (S)
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- Total Staff - 4
- 4 Full time readers
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- Text archive (SAVE system) from July 1994; Digital archive (Leaf
preserver); Microfilm to 1880s and clipping to 1920s and 1930s; fee
based research via phone requests
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- Springfield News-Leader (Springfield, Missouri)
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- Gannett Corporation
- No web site
- Information Center
- Circulation - 69,000 daily, 102,000 Sunday
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- Total Staff - 3
- 1 Full time Information Specialist/Information Center Coordinator
- 2 Part time library assistants
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- Anchorage Daily News (Anchorage, Alaska)
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- McClatchy Newspaper Group
- http://www.adn.com/ (archives not yet available on web)
- Library
- Circulation - 82,124 (m-fri); 71,934 (sat); 92,310 (S)
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- Total Staff - 3
- 2 Full time Librarians (with MLS degrees)
- 1 Part time clerical position
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- Corpus Christi Caller-Times (Corpus Christi, Texas)
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- Scripps Howard Newspapers
- http://www.caller.com
- Library (to public) ; News Research Center (in house)
- Circulation - 64,819(m); 64,819(m-sat); 88,108(S)
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- Total Staff - 3
- 1 Information Services Editor
- 2 News Researchers
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- El Paso Times (El Paso, Texas)
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- El Paso Times, Inc.
- No web site
- Information Center
- Circulation - 69,000 (m-sat); 102,000 (S)
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- Total Staff - 3
- 1 Full time Information Specialist/Information Center Coordinator
- 2 Part time library assistants
Began electronic archiving one year ago using DiGiCol for archiving
text, photos and graphics; not open to the public |
- The Lincoln Journal Star (Lincoln, Nebraska)
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- Lee Enterprises Incorporated
- http://www.nebweb.com
(newspaper web site - 12 top news stories & opinion for the day - available for
past six days; classifieds available for current day only; no library archives access yet)
- Library
- Circulation - 73,000 (m-s); 85,000 (S)
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- Total Staff - 3
- 1 Full time Library Manager (professional level - member of the 8-member
- newsroom management team)
- 1 Full time photo archives library clerk
- 1 Part-time library clerk--electronic database processing (35 hours per
week)
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- a. open for public access from 2:00-5:30 pm Tuesdays through Fridays
- b. $5.00 library access fee plus $1.00 per page for photocopies/$1.00 per
- article for printouts
- c. $60.00 per hour research fee if we do the work for the customer
- d. photo reprints sold - $18.00 for 5x7; $25.00 for 8x10; $35.00 for
11x14
- e. we average 40 hrs. per month of public service and bring in an average
- of $400.00 per month revenue from research & access fees and
photocopying.
- f. we average 40-60 photo reprint orders per month and bring in an
average
- of $1,500 per month revenue.
- g. our in-house electronic archives began June 1, 1996 - DataTimes
system.
- h. old clip files goes back to 1951.
- i. the library is under the jurisdiction of the newsroom and the Library
- Manager reports to the Editor.
- j. just beginning a digital photo archive using an AP MacArchive with
- Aldus Fetch for the catalog.
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The Register Guard
(Eugene, Oregon)
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- Guard Publishing Company
- No web page
- News Library
- Circulation - daily: 75,301: 83,561 ; Sunday: 78,636
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- Total Staff - 3
- 1 Full time librarian
- 2 half time library aides (clerk/typist)
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- converted clip files to Digital Technology archiving summer 1997
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