Online access to local papers can be difficult and confusing. Here’s a rundown of how you can read the Rutland Herald (and Barre Times-Argus) online, right now*, at Middlebury College.
- Today’s Rutland Herald:
- rutlandherald.com: If you click on a link on one of the newspaper’s main pages to “read more,” you will probably see the statement: Middlebury College Library offers FREE access to the Rutland Herald and the Times Argus. Underneath that, you are asked to provide an email and password. Enter your email address and provide a password to create your own individual account. You will then receive confirmation of the creation of your account on the webpage as well as in an email message. You will then be able to see the entire news story and other content as long as you are logged in. This username and password will work every time you log in to the newspaper website (assuming you have verified your status by either being on campus or logging in to the EZ-Proxy server).
- You can also read it in print in the Harman Periodical Reading Area on the Lower Level of Davis Family Library
- Past issues:
- From one month ago to today: In the upper-right corner of any page of rutlandherald.com, click “e-Paper.”
You can log in here using your personal credentials that you established as described above. Using the “Back Issues” pull-down menu
near the top, you can see online versions of the last month’s worth of issues. - From January 1, 2010 to one month ago: After clicking the e-Paper link described above, in the left-hand frame, choose “Search the Archives”
- From one month ago to today: In the upper-right corner of any page of rutlandherald.com, click “e-Paper.”
- Previous to 2010: At this time, issues of the Rutland Herald between 1853 and 2010 are only available on microfilm – film number 27. Issues from 1850-1852 are available courtesy of the Library of Congress at Chronicling America.
*Note that these details will change over time. We will update this post as needed. You can always land at this page by searching go/journals for Rutland Herald and choosing the link called “Middlebury’s Rutland Herald”