Using R:BASE to Construct an Auxiliary Database

In March 1987 the Capital District Library Council, which acts as a resource consortium for 47 libraries in a ten‐county area of upstate New York, became one of two sites (the other is Rochester Library Council) in a pilot project to find, catalog, and preserve local collections of New York state newspapers as part of the United States Newspaper Program (USNP), a nationwide effort funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.