The Library subscribes to nearly 200 magazine and journal titles, in print format, covering a variety of topics. At the Main branch, current issues are on display in the Periodicals section of the library and are not available for loan. Past issues are housed in the Reference area stacks, and in most instances may check out for one week, available 1991 to date. The Library subscribes to the Hattiesburg American as well as sixteen other newspapers, in print format, from major cities in the United States. Seven titles are dailies, three titles are weeklies, and seven titles are Sunday only editions.
Newspapers are for in-library use only and are kept three months.
The current month's editions are on display in the Periodicals section of the library, and the previous two month's editions are housed in the Reference area stacks. See Microforms, this page, for further information regarding this resource. The Library also subscribes to the San Jose Mercury News , host for the Mercury Center. This on-line resource is available via the Internet, accessible from The Library's related home pages, Internet Access, Web Sites. News Library archives at this site provide access to twenty-two regional newspapers.