Wellesley Free Library now offers archived articles from The Swellesley Report via the Newbank service.

If you ever have a hard time finding old posts on our own website, you can now try the library’s Databases A to Z page, and search for Swellesley under “S”. The Databases A to Z page can also be found under the e-Library dropdown menu on the Wellesley Free Library home page.

We’d been asked over the years by Swellesley readers if making our archives accessible online via the library might be a possibility. The library also makes accessible old articles from the Wellesley Townsman and other publications.

Having our content available via the library provides a sort of contingency plan. Note that links within the articles are not active in the archived versions, and images aren’t included.

We agreed last year to allow Newsbank to archive our contents (we will receive likely modest royalties under this deal). Newsbank licenses its service to libraries and other research organizations.

NewsBank consolidates current and archived information from thousands of newspaper titles, as well as newswires, web editions, blogs, videos, broadcast transcripts, business journals, periodicals, government documents and other publications. Using these online resources, researchers in libraries around the world can easily explore tens of millions of current and archived news articles and obituaries in order to pinpoint information from primary sources at the local, state, regional, national and international levels.