NEWS
Want to keep up to date with the latest news?
NEWSPAPERS AVAILABLE LOCATION OF COPIES FREQUENCY OF EDITIONS
Cairns Post* Flinders Street Mon-Sat
Courier Mail* All libraries Mon-Sat
Koori Mail All libraries Fortnightly (Wednesday)
Flinders Street North Qld Register* Weekly (Thursday) Thuringowa Aitkenvale Qld Country Life* Weekly (Thursday) Thuringowa
Sunday Mail* All libraries Weekly (Sunday)
The Australian* All libraries Mon-Sat
Townsville Bulletin* All libraries Mon-Sat * also available on NewsBank database as fully searchable, complete text of thousands of news articles, editorials, obituaries, classifieds and more. Digital images are available for capital city newspapers and The Australian. Access is via the libraries ‘Search Databases’ webpage.
NEWSPAPER ONLINE The Australian Financial Review is available in full colour as a digital replica online. This is only accessible at a library branch. A 3-year archive of back issues is available and is fully searchable via articles, advertisements, or pictures. Access is via the libraries ‘Search Databases’ webpage.
NEED A COPY OF AN OLDER ISSUE? One week of newspapers are kept at Aitkenvale and Flinders Street libraries. Three months of newspapers are kept at Thuringowa library.
LOOKING FOR HISTORICAL NEWSPAPER ARTICLES? NewsBank database offers coverage for most titles ranging from 1980s, 1990s or 2000s onwards. Townsville CityLibraries has several listings of historical newspapers stored on microfilm and housed in the Local History Collection at Flinders Street library. A complete list of these can be found on the libraries ‘Local History’ webpage. Other digitised historical newspapers can be found through the National Library of Australia’s online website TROVE.
For more information, please ask your friendly staff at Townsville CityLibraries.