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Glasgow Newspapers

Current and historical newspapers available in The Mitchell

Glasgow Newspapers

Newspapers are great sources for reminiscing, whether it's for the news headlines or football results for the day you were born, or the time your picture was in the paper when you won a dancing competion.

Archives and Special Collections in The Mitchell has current and back issues of most of newspapers published in Glasgow including:

The Daily Record
Evening Times
Glasgow Citizen
The Herald (formerly The Glasgow Herald)

Many of these are available on microfilm and can be easily accessed.

Copying Services

The newspaper collection is available as loose copies, microform and bound volumes. You can use self-service coin operated copiers for photocopying from microfilmed and loose copy newspapers, subject to copyright restrictions.

Copying from newspapers in bound volume format is undertaken by the Mitchell’s Photographic service.

Copyright

Where an item is still in copyright (within seventy years of publication or within seventy years of the death of the copyright holder) only a single copy of one page or one article may be made from one issue of a newspaper for the purposes of private study or non-commercial research.

Copies required for purposes other than private study or non-commercial research, to be made either through self service by the library customer or by a member of staff on behalf of a customer, will require to be authorised through the Copyright Licensing Agency's sticker scheme.

Similarly, if more than a single copy of one page or article from an issue is wanted, authorisation is required.

Visit our Copyright page for more information.

For more information about our collections of current and historic newspapers, please contact:

Archives And Special Collections

The Mitchell

North Street

Glasgow

G3 7DN

Phone: 0141 287 2988

Fax: 0141 287 2935

E-mail: lil@cls.glasgow.gov.uk

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