 Hey there Bruins! Today we will be discussing how to locate newspaper archives through the UCLA Library Catalog. It can be useful to have a first-hand account of your topic from the time at which it occurred, because it can give you more insight on the event. Unfortunately, getting archive newspapers straight from the publication costs money, which you could avoid paying by using the UCLA Library Catalog, which has already paid it for you. First, visit the website of the publication you wish to get your information from. Search your event and then organize the results oldest and newest. Look for an article written on the day of or the day after your event occurred. Copy the first few words of the article title. Next, go to the UCLA Library Catalog by visiting catalog.library.ucla.edu. Search for the publication with the journal titles start of filter. Click on the collection that includes all dates. For the New York Times, it will be this one since it captures everything from years 1857 onwards. In this list of different collections, click on the one the year of your event falls in. For the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse, which occurred in 1940, we will use the 1923 to 2007 collection. You will need to select the collection based on the year the event occurred here again. We will use 1923 to 2012. Now paste the article headline into the search bar. Click on your article title and you are given the full text PDF of the publication without having to pay a dime. We hope that you will be able to use this technique to widen your research. Need help with the next steps? Feel free to stop by one of our many campus locations and set up a consultation.