Periodicals Department

The Periodicals Department houses 302 current publication titles. It also contains back issues of many titles. Patrons have access to even more titles through an Internet connection to several fulltext magazine databases (Proquest, Ebsco, Infotrac, and Informe).

The newspapers available on microform are:

The New York Times 1857 - Present
The Record 1901 - Present
The Wall Street Journal 1965 - 2001

The department has the Bergen County reels of the federal census from 1830 - 1930. (Except for 1890 where only special population schedules are available).

The Periodicals Department has computers available for word processing. There is a fee of $1.00 per hour. These computers have WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows, Word 2000, and Excel 2000. Printing costs $0.10 per page. Access is on a first come, first served basis with an hour limit when someone is waiting.

The Periodicals Department closes one half hour before the rest of the library.

BCCLS card holders can search
Proquest, Ebsco, and Infotrac from home
Proquest, Ebsco, and Infotrac