Final Performance Report
Grant Number: PS-20464-91

Appendices

Microfilming Efforts By Other Connecticut Institution, Since 1991
(Does not include dailies and weeklies acquired by subscription from the major vendors or filmed annually by local institutions.)

Title	Reels	Pages	Years covered	Filmed for	Filmed by
Avon news	N/A	N/A	1987-1996	Avon Free Public Library	NEM
Bridgeport light	2	N/A	1988-1990	Bridgeport Public Library	AMS
Bridgeport times and times-star	174	93,088 (page count N/A for some reels)	1918-1925, 1927-1936, and still working on 1926, 1937-1941	Bridgeport Public Library	AMS
Clinton recorder	76	N/A	1907-1980	Clinton Historical Society	NEM
Enfield press	11	N/A	1983-1992	Enfield Public Library	NEM
Housatonic ray [New Milford, Conn.]	2	1,474	1874-1900		NEM
Monroe courier	7	16,250	1985-1997	Monroe Public Library	NEM
New Milford gazette	12	13,200	1885-1886, 1909,1919		NEM
New Milford times	48	43,146	1915-1946		NEM
Newington life	5	3,094	1996-2001	Lucy Robbins Welles Library, Newington	NEM
Newtown bee	N/A	23,604		Publisher of Newtown bee	NEM
Rockville journal	30	27,370	1911-1959	Rockville Public Library, Vernon	NEM
Rockville leader	31	25,619	1902, 1908, 1910, 1926-1964	Rockville Public Library, Vernon	NEM
Waterbury Democrat	131	120,124	1887-1925	Silas Bronson Library, Waterbury	NEM
Windsor Locks Journal	30	N/A	1880-1974	Windsor Locks Historical Society	AMS

Filming companies:
Archival Microfilm Services, 1133 Dixwell Ave., Hamden, CT 06514
New England Micrographics, 344 Boston Post Road, Marlboro, MA 01752

Articles And Publicity For The Connecticut Newspaper Project
1988
"Connecticut Newspaper Project", Connecticut Libraries (Connecticut Library Association), Sept. 1988, p. 6.
"CT Begins Newspaper Project", The Inquirer (Hartford, CT), Aug. 24, 1988, p. 2.
"Connecticut Begins Newspaper Project", Newtown Bee, Sept. 2, 1988
"Newspaper Preservation Plan Begins in Connecticut", New Milford Times, Aug. 25, 1988
"State Begins Newspaper Project", Bristol Press, Aug. 24, 1988
"State Begins Newspaper Project", Voices (Southbury, CT), Aug. 24, 1988
"State Joins Project for Newspapers", Westport News, Aug. 24, 1988, p. 38.
"State Library Receives Grant", Hartford Courant, July 29, 1988
"Tracking Down Newspapers State Project", Darien News-Review, Aug. 25, 1988

1989
Bill Ryan, "19th Century Journals Often Short-lived, Always Lively", Hartford Courant, Apr. 2, 1989, p. H1

1992
Richard Tambling, "Preserving Connecticut's Newspapers: Librarians to Identify, Locate, Microfilm Historic Pages of the Past", Journal Inquirer (Manchester, CT), Jan. 21, 1992, pp. 27, 28.

1993
Jane Cullinane, "Connecticut Newspaper Project Begins Roadwork", CSL Update (Connecticut State Library), Fall 1993, p. 8.

1994
David Friedman, "Long Line of Papers Heralds Town News", Bethel Home News, (Bethel, CT), Aug. 3, 1994, pp. 1, 18.
Matthew Lubanko, "Newspapers Wanted: State Library Seeks Many Old Editions", Record-Journal (Meriden, CT), May 28, 1994
Kevin McKeever, "Old Newspapers Needed", Greenwich Time (Greenwich, CT), May 3, 1994, p. 1.
Laura Kahkonen, "State Project Searches for Old Newspapers", Windsor Journal (Windsor, CT), May 27, 1994, p. 12.
"Wanted: Old Missing Newspapers For Inclusion In Statewide Project", Litchfield County Times, May 13, 1994
radio interview with WREF [news], Ridgefield, CT, aired approximately Apr. 27, 1994
radio interview with WGCH, Greenwich, CT, aired approximately Apr. 27, 1994

1996
"Project seeks missing newspapers", Main Street News [Deep River, CT], June 27-July 10, 1996

1997
J. Cris Yarborough,"The Battle Against Time and Money: Racing to Save Connecticut's History in Newspapers", The Herald Press (Middletown, CT), Feb. 23, 1997, pp. D1, D7.
"Connecticut Newspaper Project Offers Its First Microfilmed Newspaper", Connecticut Libraries (Connecticut Library Association), May 1997, p. 7
Joanne M. Godfrey, "Old New Era Newspaper Now on Microfilm", Main St. News (Deep River, CT), Vol. 8, No. 7, Apr. 1997, pp. 1, 23.
Douglas Black, "State Library Seeks Microfilm to Preserve Old Newspaper", Journal Inquirer, (Rockville, CT), Oct. 15, 1997, p. 10?

1998
"Back Issues Sought For Microfilming", Hartford Courant [Stafford ed.], Feb. 17, 1998
Glenn McNamara, "Library Seeks Newspaper Issues", Voices (Southbury, CT), Vol. 30, No. 6, Feb. 11, 1998, p. 4.
Steve Grant, "New Work Keeps Old News Alive: Library Hunting Down, Preserving Newspapers Of Past", Hartford Courant, Mar. 15, 1998, pp. B1, B4. Also appeared under title: "New interest keeps old news alive" in Stamford Advocate, Vol. 168, No. 337, Mar. 15, 1998.
Elizabeth Ganga, "Old Editions From ‘Herald's' Archive To Be Preserved Through Microfilm", The Herald (New Britain, CT), Mar. 18, 1998, p. A3.
Shawn Mawhiney, "Project Seeks To Find, Catalog And Preserve History", Sunday Bulletin (Norwich. jCT), Jan. 25, 1998, p. B3.
Bill Ryan, "Read All About It! Before It Molders Away", New York Times [Connecticut ed.] Vol. 147, No. 51,153, May 10, 1998, Sect. 14, p. 1, 4-5.
Carr Vernon, "State Project Seeks Missing Issues Of Paper", Reminder [Stafford ed.] (Vernon, CT) Mar. 17, 1998, p. 1.
Jennifer A. Peyton,"Who Wants Yesterday's Paper?", Litchfield County Times (New Milford, CT), Vol. 18, No. 8, Feb. 20, 1998, p. 15.

1999
Jane F. Cullinane, "Newspaper Union List Available", CONNector [State Library], Vol. 1, No. 2, July 1999, p. 3
Jane F. Cullinane, "1000^th Reel Microfilmed by Connecticut Newspaper Project", CONNector [State Library], Vol. 1, No. 3, Nov. 1999, p. 6

2000
"Historical Society, Library Receive Cultural Grants", Hartford Courant, Apr. 7, 2000, p. B7.
Laura Moulton, "New Grant For Connecticut Newspaper Project", CONNector [State Library], Vol. 2, No. 3, July 2000, p. 3

2001
Jane F. Cullinane, "Access to Newspapers Increased With 2000^th Reel Of Microfilm", CONNector [State Library], Vol. 3, No. 4, Nov. 2001, p. 8

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