Newsplan
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Newsplan East Midlands
Some of the country's oldest newspapers have been published in the East Midlands region. Newsplan is a major project to preserve, list and microfilm the historic runs of local newspapers held in the regions and in the national library collection. It is a co-operative programme involving public libraries, record offices and museums, the universities and newspaper publishers, along with the active support of the British Library Newspaper Library.
Through this website, you can now search for a newspaper title, for newspapers connected with a particular town or county, or to find out what newspapers were published in a particular year in the East Midlands and East Anglia region.
More information and papers giving a national overview of Newsplan, can be found at www.bl.uk/concord/linc/newsplan.html and also on their website: "Newsplan 2000 Project"
Phase 1 of the national Newsplan 2000 project has now reached a very successful conclusion. 1,350 newspaper titles, including some lengthy runs of 150 years or more, have been preserved on 30,000 reels of microfilm.
The Newsplan East Midlands group brings together the libraries across the East Midlands and East of England who are working in close co-operation to deliver the Newsplan project. Minutes of the Newsplan meetings are available as word documents.
Newsplan East Midlands members are:
Chair: Ruth Gordon
Derbyshire Libraries
Public Library members:
Cambridgeshire Libraries
Jon Anderson
Cambridgeshire Libraries
Chris Jakes
Derby City Libraries
Trish Kenny
Leicester City Libraries
Angela Cutting
Leicestershire Libraries
Steve Kettle
Record Office for Leicestershire,
Leicester and Rutland
Lincolnshire Libraries
Kevin Best
Lincolnshire Libraries
Alison Peden
Norfolk Libraries
Karen Holland
Northamptonshire Libraries
Jon-Paul Carr
Nottingham City Libraries
Christina Raven Conn
Nottingham City Libraries
Roger Parish
Nottinghamshire Libraries
David Crute
Peterborough Libraries
Richard Hillier
Suffolk Libraries
Ruth Silburn
Higher Education member:
Corinne Fawcett
University of Nottingham
Other members:
British Library
Newspaper Library
Ed King
Diana Dixon
Independent Researcher
MLA (East Midlands) representative
Jerry Weber
Nottingham Evening Post
Elena Botterill
Stamford Mercury
Eileen Green


