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Newspapers
Contemporary:
Factiva (full text; 1968 to present)
Covers global news and business information, including newswires, newspapers, magazines, and company reports.
LexisNexis Academic (full text; dates vary, most 1980 to present)
Includes international, national, and regional newspapers, newswires, transcripts of news programs, and business and legal information.
Richmond Times-Dispatch (current issue only)
For earlier articles: Library has current 3 months in print and 1950 to 3 months ago on microfilm; 1995 to present available full text in LexisNexis Academic database
Historic:
Virginia Gazette – microfilm, 1736-1780, index at REF F 221 .V45 1950
Ashland Herald-Progress – microfilm, 1919-present, no index
Richmond Daily Dispatch (1860-1865)
Electronic full-text access to primary Ricmond newspaper during Civil War years.
Richmond Times-Dispatch – microfilm, 1950-present, no index
Richmond Christian Advocate – microfilm, 1869-1939, index on first reel of microfilm
Locating Federal and State Publications
Contemporary:
FirstGov: This portal to federal web materials also will search state and local websites.
Historic:
Index is called Monthly Catalog, available at federal depository libraries (see below)
Federal Depository Libraries in and around Richmond:
University of Richmond
Virginia Commonwealth University
College of William and Mary
***University of Virginia (catalog)
Government Documents Dept.: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/govdocs/
Regional Depository; includes historic documents and have received virtually everything. Documents published after 1976 will be in VIRGO, the UVA library catalog
Library of Virginia – State document depository. Check online catalog. Indexes are: Calendar of Virginia State Papers (11 volumes covering 1652-1869), Check-list of Virginia State Publications (1927-1992), and Virginia State Papers (contemporary).
(State documents also held at University of Virginia)
Virginia Historical Society – collections of papers and other historical materials
Other Historic Indexes & Books
Virginia Historical Index (Swem Index) REF F 221 .S93
Bibliography of Virginia History since 1865 REF F 226 .C3 1930
Hanover County, Virginia 1850 Census REF F232 .H3 I56 1974
Old Homes of Hanover County Virginia REF F232 .H3 O43 1983
JSTOR
This database includes the full-text of the William and Mary Quarterly back to its beginning and is fully searchable.
Maps & Geographic Sources
see library’s Map page in the Web Reference section
Library of Congress American Memory - Maps
Library of Congress American Memory - Built in America
This is the Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, 1933-Present. Begun by the WPA and now administered by the NPS, this project identifies and photographs notable structures in the U.S. Searchable by city and county.
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