Microfilm @ Your Library

Libraries have been repositories of knowledge and record for millennia. Even in the 21st Century, there is information, often of great value, that has not been digitized. We at Marshall Public Library take seriously our mission of providing “a vibrant lifelong learning center with information resources” to all members of our community, both nationally and locally. To that end, we maintain a varied collection of resources for the public’s use.

One of the most unique and treasured of those resources is our microfilm archive of the Pocatello Tribune and Idaho State Journal that reaches all the way back to 1895. Found within the pages of our local paper are obituaries, births, marriages, civic events, and other local history. Want to know about the Portneuf flood in the early 1960s from a contemporary perspective? Looking for history on a local building? Do you need to know when a great-grandfather died? All of these things can be researched in our archive.

If you’ve never done microfilm research before, our staff stands ready to assist you in getting started. The more information you have to begin with, the easier the search will be. Information found can be scanned from the microfilm and saved to a flash drive. It can also be printed out for you at the library’s normal rate. Requests for newspaper research made from outside our library district can be emailed to ref@marshallpl.org.

Trent Clegg, Reference Librarian