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Found out my library card gets me free access to 40,000+ old newspaper pages online
I was at the reference desk in Boise bugging the librarian about how to find my grandpa's old union notices from the 1950s, and she showed me the library's newspaper archive login. Turns out my card number gets me into a database with over 40,000 scanned pages going back to the 1800s, and nobody ever mentioned it at checkout. I pulled up 12 articles about the same grain elevator strike in under an hour, all from my couch. If you have not asked your library what digital archives they pay for, do it, because mine had three I had never heard of. What random database did your library have that surprised you?
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