Good News! New Newspaper Access via the Dallas Public Library!

by Paula Bosse

by Paula Bosse

Good news! The Dallas Public Library now offers to those with DPL library cards free access to the “Texas Edition” of Newspapers.com! You can browse/search a large variety of Texas newspapers that the site has in its database — I think it’s over 200. I’ve only just started playing with this “Texas Edition” to see how it differs from the full Newspapers.com site, and I’ve found that it does not offer all the newspapers that the full site does (for instance, it does not offer the very useful “Evening Edition” of The Fort Worth Star-Telegram), but there are a LOT of papers there. (For access to the full site, which contains US (beyond Texas) and select international newspapers — you must purchase your own subscription.) This is very exciting!

This joins the continuing DPL access to NewspaperArchive.com (provided by the Dallas Genealogical Society — thank you, DGS!). Newspapers.com and NewspaperArchive have some overlap in their content, but they also each have exclusives. Both are great resources.

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So how do you get to them on the DPL website? You must have your library card number (or login info). Dallas Public Library cards are free, but they are available only to residents of the City of Dallas. (More specific info on that — including some exceptions — is at the DPL website, here.) (You are always welcome to visit the library in person to access these databases without needing a library card.)

Log in to the DPL website here. Click on “MY ACCOUNT” at the top.

Enter your login info.

Click on “DATABASES” (at top of page).

Click on “GENEALOGY.”

Click on (for instance) “NEWSPAPER ARCHIVE” or “NEWSPAPERS.COM (TEXAS EDITION)” or whatever else you want to explore.

And you’re there.

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These databases complement the essential Dallas Morning News and Fort Worth Star-Telegram archives, which have been available for years on the library website, via NewsBank. They can be accessed on the same “Genealogy” tab, or, you can get to the DMN and FWST (and other publications not found on the “Genealogy” tab) by navigating this way:

LOG IN → DATABASES → MAGAZINES, NEWSPAPERS & JOURNALS → and then whatever publication you want to access.

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These are all incredible resources for everyone interested in historical and genealogical research. Thank you, Dallas Public Library! (And don’t forget the huge scanned newspaper collection at the Portal to Texas History!)

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Sources & Notes

The three images in this post are screenshots from the Dallas Public Library website.

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