I'm looking for the correct name of a collection of newspaper..

[eurovision]

... articles, before the days of the Internet.

 

I found these and need the right name for them. They are A3 pages, and printed on them in scrapbook-like fashion are articles from a particular event.

 

Wasn't there a service before the days of the Internet that you could request all articles on a particular topic and they would be presented to you like this at a cost?

 

Thanks for your help!

[northernboy]

I seem to remember newspapers offering a "cuttings" service for a fee. Or was it clippings? Something like that.

[tzijlstra]

It is a newspaper repository, some commercial forms of it use different names, in the Netherlands it was called the Krantenbank.

 

They will have a specialist for this at Western Bank Library (You can sign in as a visitor) of the University of Sheffield. A lot of older papers are stored on microfilm, again, the University has this at WBL in the Wolfson Suite

[horribleblob]

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Wasn't there a service before the days of the Internet that you could request all articles on a particular topic and they would be presented to you like this at a cost?...

 

Yes, when I worked in the advertising industry several lives ago, we used a cuttings bureau (Romeike and Curtis).

Edited May 1, 2015 by horribleblob

[eurovision]

But did the end result have a specific name?

[Longcol]

But did the end result have a specific name?

 

Cuttings library?

[horribleblob]

But did the end result have a specific name?

 

They were just referred to as "press cuttings", and sometimes, as northernboy posted, "clippings". Sorry if that's disappointing, eurovison, but that's all we called them. No special name. We requested press cuttings from the Cuttings Bureau on a particular event, person, company, product, whatever, and that's what we got: copies of cuttings presented in a folder. Slightly more upmarket than a scrapbook though. "Press cuttings" included more than just articles from newspapers of course.

Edited May 1, 2015 by horribleblob

[Ghozer]

Gazettes or Bulletins?

 

avvisi seems to be the first.... for Early Europe

 

In Early modern Europe the increased cross-border interaction created a rising need for information which was met by concise handwritten newssheets, called avvisi.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper#History

[eurovision]

Thank you so much!