In order to provide quick access to recent articles in the Post Crescent, the Outagamie Waupaca Library System has subscribed to the Newsbank Post Crescent database. Users can search for newspaper articles by keyword and date. The database includes articles from 2002 to approximately two weeks current. The articles provide full text content of local and regional news about community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded.

Users will find the database on the home page of the Appleton Public Library (www.apl.org) or the Electronic Resources Page of the web site of the Outagamie Waupaca Library System (www.owls.lib.wi.us). Use is available to everyone at local libraries; from home or work, users will have to enter their library card number to get access.

For now only articles since 2002 are available in full text. For articles published prior to 2002, the user will still have to use the microfilm copy of the Post Crescent that is available at the Appleton Public Library. The library’s website includes an index that provides date and page of selected local articles published since 1853.

The Newsbank database is useful to find current information about a new restaurant opening in town, the date and time of a local concert, or a recently published obituary. It is valuable to both the casual user and the local history researcher.

The Newsbank subscription is funded by the Appleton, Kaukauna, Kimberly and Little Chute public libraries as well as the Outagamie Waupaca Library System. Access to the database is available at all system public libraries.