Is there a pile of old newspapers under your bed, in your shed or under the floorboards? Do you want to help preserve our social history for future generations?
Well the State Library of Tasmania wants to hear from you.
Under the ambitious Australian Newspaper Plan (ANPlan), managed by Australia's national, state and territory libraries, we want to find, collect and preserve the nation’s ‘at risk’ or historically important missing newspapers.
Newspapers are fragile and can become brittle and crumble into dust. By helping us to find our "missing papers", we can preserve them into the future for all Australians to enjoy.
So regardless of where you live or the particular “Wanted” newspaper you find, we want to hear from you.
The list of Tasmanian papers is below. But if you find an old newspaper that is not Tasmanian, do check against the ANPLan website at www.nla.gov.au/anplan for the list of other "missing in action" newspapers. It may just be one!
We are looking for either the complete issue or individual pages of the following missing Tasmanian newspapers:
Advocate Annual (any issues)
Advocate Sep 1976-Dec 1979
Butterfly 1869-1870
Catholic Standard (Hobart) 1937-1940
Colonial Record 1839
Colonial Times 1825-1857
Cornwall Chronicle 1835-1880
Derwent Star and Van Diemen’s Land Intelligencer 1810
Emu Bay Times and North West & West Coast Advocate 1897-1899
Examiner Annual (any issues)
Hobart Town Gazette, and Southern Reporter 1820
Hobart Town Courier 1827-1859
Hobart Town Punch 1867-1868
Huon Times 1913-1916
Illustrated Tasmanian Mail 1921-1935
Illustrated Tasmanian News 1873-1877
King Island News 1912-1935
Monitor 1834-1923
Morning Star 1891-1894
North Western Advocate (Devonport) and the
Emu Bay Times (Burnie) Tasmania 1899-1918
Tasmanian 1827-1829
Tasmanian Punch 1866-1878
Tasmanian Punch Review 1866-1878
Van Diemen’s Land Gazette and General Advertiser 1814
Weekly Courier 1901-1935
Contact the State Library of Tasmania’s “newspaper detective”, Senior Librarian, Anna Zylstra direct on (03) – 6233 7457 or via email at state.library@education.tas.gov.au
Anna will:
1. Ask you what newspaper it is?
2. Ask you what year it is?
3. Then talk with you to decide if it is worth bringing in to your local library for us to have a look at it.
Or talk to your local library staff. Staff can then contact Anna about the missing newspaper on your behalf after asking you a few key questions.
Or contact the ANPlan coordinator Dr Hilary Berthon at the National Library of Australia on 02 6262 1642 or at hberthon@nla.gov.au.
For a full list of the wanted newspapers, go to www.nla.gov.au/anplan
