America's Newspapers & America's Obituaries

Webinar presented by Matt Belanger of Newsbank

as part of Staff Development Day 2013

Highlights of Ocean County Library's Newsbank Subscriptions

1) Special Reports in America's Newspapers – up to date topically-arranged global news events from a local perspective.

2) America's Obituaries & Death Notices – 24/7 in-library and remotes access to obituaries and paid/unpaid death notices from 2300+ news sources nationwide.

3) Access World News – search information from any country in the world.  Searches may include people, events, book/movie reviews, historical events, opposing viewpoints, archived weather reports, local businesses, career/job searching, research, etc.

4) America's News Magazines - access 23 popular electronic magazines.

5) Archive of Americana – browse and/or search Trenton Evening Times from 1883-1993.  Access scanned and indexed historical newspapers.

Key Features

1) Personal Accounts – create your own account within the library’s NewsBank subscription to keep records of search history and saved articles for future reference.

2) Email Alerts – receive an email when a topic of interest appears in the news (e.g. name of library, favorite celebrity, research topic, etc).

3) Social Media – share database articles on your social media outlets (Facebook, blogs, Twitter, etc).

4) Direct Links – NewsBank provides direct links to any of the individual sources in your subscription (e.g. local paper, magazine title, state news, etc).

5) Archived News Videos – view archived news videos at Access World News > Source Types > Video

6) Interface – the intuitive and proprietary map interface enables users to change menu options to one of four languages.

Search Tips & Tricks

1) Library Name - performed regular searches on the name of your library in quotes (“Ocean County Library”) to find where it is being mentioned in the news, then share the article on your library Facebook page.

2) Obit* - search obituaries in a particular news source by typing “obit*” in the search field.

3) America's Obituaries & Death Notices – remember to search the text of an obituary to uncover genealogical ties, people who have moved out of state, past employees, or people who have passed away and directed contributions to the library.

4) NJ News – click on the NJ state icon to browse state news.  Browse individual titles or limit searching to a handful of news titles by checking the corresponding boxes

5) Opposing viewpoints – read viewpoints that are 1) from a local perspective, 2) up to date and 3) written for most reading levels. (example: search “gun control” and select Texas and Massachusetts for liberal/conservative perspectives)


Find printable bookmarks, tent cards and signs to promote America's Newspapers, etc. at http://www.newsbank.com/productuse/index.cfm?content=231