some of you may have already seen this on the Roots newsletter 25 October 2000 the main page was http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/news/newscats.html CRL Catalog (via telnet) The Center for Research Libraries' Online Public Access Catalog (385,000 records). Includes monographs, newspapers, serials, archival materials in microform, acquisitions records, and serial check-in records. Login and password are both "guest." CRL Databases Webbed subsets of the above catalog. Includes Foreign Newspapers and the Ethnic Press. FirstSearch Available within the Library of Congress only. May be available at your local library. Provides access to OCLC Union Lists of Periodicals which shows holdings for newspapers and other covered items among OCLC member libraries. It can help you determine if a library holds a specific newspaper issue. US Newspaper Program Web Sites List (from the National Endowment for the Humanities): US Newspaper Program Catalogs with holdings: Florida New York Texas Virginia Godbless Lorri