Frequently, important facts and opinions that you will need to know have been published in magazines, journals, or newspapers instead. This chapter, on periodicals, has several sections and five different assignments for you to submit. You may use these headings to skip to the part you need to work on. As you know, MVCC's library subscribes to over 700 different periodicals. So, as you can imagine, there are thousands of individual newspapers, magazines, and journals on our library's shelves.
Many thousands more are available through electronic sources.
Each one may contain dozens of articles. They bring world and local events to their readers each day, provide entertainment, and serve as historical documents long after they are published. In addition, they are reflections of the culture in which they appear and the historical period in which they are published. In the past, people might hear the news from friends or on the radio, read it in the newspaper, or see it on television. Today, however, they can also get news through the World Wide Web.