The Hartford Courant News Library

The Hartford Courant is the nation's oldest continuously published newspaper, first published in 1764.

The news library is where reporters, and sometimes photographers, go for information when preparing a story or photograph for publication.

(No newspaper library existed until the 1880s. Before then reporters had to rely on memory and any papers that someone might have kept.)

Handwritten index cards: About 1880, the newspaper started using index cards, where someone would write notes about a story, the subjects, what edition the story was in and what page it was on

Bound copies of The Courant from the 1930s

Bound copies. The Courant bound copies of previous editions into books until about 1990.

Microfilm: In the 1940s, the Courant started making microfilm copies of many of its old and current newspapers.

Marjorie Ruschau, ILS501

This project was created to fulfill the requirements of a graduate level course at Southern Connecticut State University Introduction to Information Science and Technology, taught by Dr. Y Liu