On 2/1/04 (11:34:29 AM MST), in a posting to both the NYNASSAU-L@rootsweb.com and NYBROOKLYN-L@rootsweb.com, SallyEllen R. Schilling (sally_schilling@earthlink.net) asked, "There was a post sometime last week with a link regarding Newspapers on Long Island… there are two that come to mind that weren’t on the list… Long Island Press and the Valley Stream Mail-Leader (I think that’s the name of newspaper)… I only mention these newspaper and know of them as my dad, uncle and great uncle worked for Newsday until their retirements in the late 1970’ s… Does anyone know if these papers are on microfilm anywhere? These could be a good source of obits…" For questions such as yours, you may want to check with Long Island Studies Institute and the Long Island Library Resources Council (LILRC): Long Island Studies Institute West Campus Library Hofstra University 619 Fulton Avenue Hempstead, NY 11549-4575 Tel: 516/463-6411 Fax 516/463-6441 eMail: lisi@hofstra.edu http://www.hofstra.edu/Libraries/LISI/index_LISI.cfm Long Island Library Resources Council Melville Library, Suite E5310 Stony Brook, NY 11794-3399 Tel: 631/632-6650 Fax: 631/???-???? eMail: ????? http://www.lilrc.org/ The Long Island Library Resources Council (LILRC), one of nine New York State Reference and Research Library Resources System (3Rs), is a multi-type library membership organization that fosters and enhances resource sharing and other cooperative activities among diverse libraries in Nassau and Suffolk counties. An organization chartered and funded by the State, LILRC is also committed to working with library systems and associations in the region and throughout New York, and with the Division of Library Development of the New York State Education Department, to further its goals I hope this information is useful or, at least, interesting. Walter Greenspan