Periodical Room

The Brentwood Library subscribes to more than 100 magazines and newspapers in print, with hundreds more accessible through Internet databases.

Looking for an article from the Tennessean? Try Newsbank, which starts coverage in January 1999. It also includes the Knoxville News Sentinel, the Memphis Commercial Appeal, and the Chattanooga Times-Free Press.

Looking for national newspapers? Look up citations in TEL's National Newspaper Index. Find full-text articles in  TEL's Custom Newspapers or Academic OneFile, but contact Reference Librarians if you can't access something you need. Interlibrary loan may be an option. The password for these databases is "elvis".

Gain a global perspective on world events by reading current newspapers from around the world with Library Press Display. Test your foreign language skills with the translate feature. Access to over 500 newspapers from 74 countries in 38 different languages. Limited to three users at a time. Click here for login info.

Search thousands of historical newspapers by subject's name with America’s GenealogyBank.  Also provides access to the complete American State Papers, U.S. Serial Set, Social Security Death Index and more than 23 million obituaries.