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| St. Louis Beacon partners with Mercantile Library, gains access to Globe-Democrat files |
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| By Nicole Hollway, General Manager |
| Posted 2:45 pm Mon., 11.16.09 |
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Gains access to Globe-Democrat files ST LOUIS, MO (April 8, 2009) The new kid on the media block and one of the oldest are working together to make new use of historic St. Louis files. The St. Louis Mercantile Library Association, established in 1846, has made St. Louis Globe-Democrat newspaper files available to the St. Louis Beacon (www.stlbeacon.org), soon to celebrate its first birthday. The Globe, renown for its conservative editorial positions and its local reporting, was founded in 1852. The Globe’s morgue, as a news publication’s reference department traditionally is called, was acquired by the Mercantile Library after the Globe’s demise in 1986. The morgue includes about 10 million items -- photographs, cross-referenced clippings, bound volumes of newspapers and microfilm of back issues. John Neal Hoover, executive director of the Library, said: “The Mercantile Library is pleased to work with the St. Louis Beacon on an imaginative project to provide St. Louis readers a sense of their city’s and the region’s history through the remarkable journalistic collections housed here. “In these challenging times when news sources of all sorts are needed more than ever, we are pleased to help build a new partnership through the collections passed down to us for the public good and in trust for the reading community.” “For any news organization, access to such a collection would be a prize,” said Beacon editor Margaret Wolf Freivogel. “For a relatively new organization such at the Beacon, free use of the material is invaluable.” |
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Barroom Conversations
The Beacon's nationally recognized Barroom Conversations program on race, class and other issues that divide will be held on Monday, Feb. 13, 2012, at 7:30 PM discussing Education and Class. RSVP on Facebook and invite your friends! We'll pick up where we left off at Six Row Brewing Co., 3690 Forest Park Avenue at Spring. We look forward to seeing you again!
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