Newspapers

The Library subscribes to a small number of print newspapers such as the Globe and Mail, Lakefield Herald, Lindsay Post, National Post, Northern Miner, the Peterborough Examiner, Peterborough This Week, and Toronto Star. Back issues are retained for two months. Three of these are retained permanently on microfilm – the Peterborough Examiner, Peterborough This Week and the Globe and Mail.

Due to space constraints and preservation issues, the library has a limited collection of print newspapers, newsletters and other similar periodicals. Some of these are retained as part of the library’s Peterborough Collection. The Peterborough Collection contains items of a local nature that are pertinent to the needs of researchers of Peterborough, Peterborough County and surrounding areas. See the Peterborough Collection page of this web site for more details.

The library retains a number of older newspapers on microfilm. Most of these are from Peterborough but the library does have a lengthy run of the Globe and Mail. For a complete list, check the section Genealogy/Local History of this web site.

Many newspapers are now available electronically through the library’s web site and can be accessed from home with your library card. Canadian Reference Centre includes Canadian newspapers such as the Toronto Star, Hamilton Spectator, La Presse, The Record, Guelph Mercury, and the Cambridge Reporter. CPIQ contains selected sections of the Globe and Mail (1985 to the present). Articles from many Canadian newspapers such as the Peterborough Examiner (March 2000 to the present) are available through CEDROM Sni News. E-Library contains full-text articles from newspapers such as the Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal, National Post, Ottawa Citizen, Montreal Gazette and Windsor Star. Infotrac Custom Newspapers contains articles from Peterborough This Week and other local papers (February 2008 to the present) as well as US newspapers such as the Washington Post and the New York Times.