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Tips

• The Hawaii Newspaper Index coverage is from 1989 through the present year.
  Earlier years are indexed by print volumes, shelved atop HCC Library's Clipping File.

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• The Hawaii Newspaper Index can be searched by subject or by keyword(s).
  Use the pull-down menu to select your search type.
  

  Hint: Not sure about the subject heading for your topic?
  Begin with a Subject Browse, General Keyword, or Subject Keyword search. Then, examine the subject headings of the citations.

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• Since date-sorting does not work at this time, try including the year of interest with your search terms.

  example:   to locate newspaper citations about "computer virus" in the year 2000

  Search: Newspaper General Keyword [for]--> computer virus 2000

  

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• If the search retrieves more than one article, a list of brief citations will appear. To see a full citation, click on the title.

  The full citation contains the newspaper's publication information, subject heading(s), and often, a brief abstract.

  

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• HCC Library has back issues of the Honolulu Advertiserand the Honolulu Star-Bulletinon microfilm.

  Information needed to get a copy of an article:

  • Name of the newspaper: Advertiser or Star-Bulletin
  • Date of the article
  • Section and page number of the article, e.g. A-10

  example:

  In this example, Newspaper:   Honolulu Star-Bulletin Date:   May 6, 2000 Section and page:   A4

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• To locate an obituary, do a Newspaper General Keyword for the name of the deceased.
  example:

  Or, browse through obituaries by year with an Advanced Search like this:
  

  example:

  Newspaper General Keyword = "1999"
    and
  Newspaper Subject Keyword = "obituaries J"

  will retrieve obituaries from 1999 of people with last names beginning with the letter J.

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