Inventory of the Albania newspaper collection

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Title: Albania newspaper collection
Date (inclusive): 1969-2001
Collection Number: 2019C53
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: Albanian
Physical Description: 51 oversize boxes (77.6 Linear Feet)
Abstract: The newspapers in this collection were originally collected by the Hoover Institution Library and transferred to the Archives in 2019. The Albania newspaper collection (1966-1992) comprises seven different titles of publication. All of the titles within this collection have been further analyzed in Stanford University Libraries catalog.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

Use

Due to the assembled nature of this collection, copyright status varies across its scope. Copyright is assumed to be held by the original newspaper publications, which should be contacted wherein public domain has not yet passed. The Hoover Institution can neither grant nor deny permission to publish or reproduce materials from this collection.

Acquisition Information

Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2019 from the Hoover Institution Library.

Preferred Citation

The following information is suggested along with your citation: [Title/Date of Publication], Albania newspaper collection [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.

Historical Note

The Hoover Institution's collecting history regarding newspapers spans over 80 years. Newspapers became an integral core component of the "Hoover War Collection" soon after it was established in 1919 as a repository of materials on World War I and the states and societies involved in it. The subsequent widening of focus to cover the themes of "War, Revolution, and Peace" caused the collection to grow further in scope and volume into a variety of directions.
As a result, over the course of 80 years, thousands of newspaper titles from close to a hundred different countries were collected. They document major political and historical events, such as military conflicts and wars, the collapse of political systems, states, and empires, the establishment of radical and revolutionary regimes, and the corollaries of all these developments, including economic crises, famines, and migration for political reasons.
In 2000-2001, the Hoover Library's newspaper collection activities came to an almost complete halt. Around that time, the "realignment" of library activities and collections at Stanford saw the transfer of more than 2,000 newspaper titles from specific (mostly non-European) countries from the Hoover Library to other libraries at Stanford. Moreover, prior to the realignment, a significant but unknown volume of paper copies of newspapers (including many Russian/Soviet titles) were discarded after being microfilmed.
In totality, the remaining paper copies of newspapers at Hoover - excluding microfilm holdings - comprise more than 5,000 unique titles, of which at least many hundreds can be considered rare or very rare. These remaining newspaper collections at Hoover contain materials dating from all periods of the 20th century, with some titles reaching back into the 19th century. While the variety and diversity of papers is considerable, most titles fall into one of three groups: 1) general daily and weekly newspapers; 2) party and propaganda newspapers; 3) newspapers addressing national or ethnic minorities, émigré newspapers, veterans' papers, professional and union papers.
The largest number of newspaper runs include copies from the first half of the 20th century. Newspapers from this period illuminate in particular the two world wars and their consequences as well as political, social, and economic developments in Europe and beyond, including the rise of Socialist, right-wing, and Fascist ideologies and movements. Among the late 20th century holdings, a significant number of papers reflect political change in various regions, most prominently the end of Socialist and Communist regimes in Eastern Europe, but also revolutionary or radical political movements in non-European states, e.g. in Latin America.
Very few holdings of individual newspaper titles possess complete or near-complete runs. However, in cases of chronologically holdings or gaps, supplementation can sometimes be found in the form of microfilm copies available at the Hoover Library or holdings at Stanford University Libraries.

Scope and Content of Collection

The Albania newspaper collection consists of seven (7) unique titles. The titles, publication information, and Hoover-held date ranges are: 1. Bashkimi. (Tirane: [publisher not identified], 1978: Jan - 1986: Dec); 2. Flamuri: organ of the Albanian Agrarian Democratic Party "Balli Kombëtar.. (Roma [publisher not identified], 1973: Oct 3); Pasqyra. (Tirane : Pasqyra, 1991: Jul 2 - Dec 24); 4. Puna : organ i keshillit qendror te B.P.Sh. (Tirane: [publisher not identified], 1969: Apr -1991: Dec); 5. Rilindja demokratike : gazetë e Partisë Demokratike të Shqipërisë. (Tirane: [publisher not identified], 1992: Mar - 2001: Jun); 6. Zeri i popullit. (Tirane: Komitet Central te P.P. SH., 1978: Feb - 1991: Dec); 7. Zeri i rinisë. (Tirane [Albania]: Komitetit Qendror te Bashkimit te Rinise se Punes se Shqiperise, 1985: Jan - 1991: Dec). Analyzed title information can be found in Stanford University Libraries catalog, Searchworks.

Arrangement Statement

The collection has been organized into seven (7) series, one for each title in the collection.
You will also notice a string of numbers within the series information. These numbers represent the library catalog ID for that particular newspaper title. If input into Stanford's library catalog you will be directed to the full catalog record. We have preserved this information within our finding aid for both the benefit and ease of the researcher, as well as our intention to utilize it via automated linking in the future.
The materials in this collection are part of an Offsite Move Project spanning 2018-2019. The items were acquired from the Hoover Institution Library as "news collections" and were originally housed, unboxed, on shelves via their call number (normally a country) and ordered alphabetically by title. In some cases, newspapers were not assigned a particular country, but instead a language designation.
Upon transfer to the Archives, the collection's materials were housed in archival boxes according to size, and afforded item level descriptive information. Intellectual arrangement was then imposed to each collection both alphabetically by title and chronologically by date. When searching for a title alphabetically it is important to remember that all initial articles, particularly ones used in varying languages, are excluded in alphabetical arrangement, and the title is organized based on the first word (despite the initial article still remaining at the beginning of the title). The formatting of the dates preserves the packet title holdings information, which was the format used by Hoover Library Staff for decades. As a result, some dates may appear out of order by month. In the 1980s, Hoover grew less detailed in their capturing of holdings information, resulting in generalized statements of "many issues missing" or sometimes not recording a missing issue at all.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Albanian newspapers

 

Bashkimi. (Tirane: [publisher not identified], 1978: Jan - 1986: Dec) 392673

box 14

Bashkimi (Tirana) 1977: Jan-Jun

Scope and Contents

Missing: Apr 10
box 15

Bashkimi (Tirana) 1977: Jul-Dec

box 9

Bashkimi (Tirana) 1978: Jan-Jun

Scope and Contents

Missing: Jan 17
box 9

Bashkimi (Tirana) 1978: Jul-Dec

Scope and Contents

Missing: Sep 24; Nov 15,28
box 10

Bashkimi (Tirana) 1979: Jan-Jun

box 11

Bashkimi (Tirana) 1979: Jul-Dec

Scope and Contents

Missing: Nov 21,24
box 13

Bashkimi (Tirana) 1980: Jan-Jun

Scope and Contents

Missing: Jun 13
box 12

Bashkimi (Tirana) 1980: Jul-Dec

box 23

Bashkimi (Tirana) 1981: Jul 3-Dec 29

box 16

Bashkimi (Tirana) 1983: Jan 1-Apr 30

box 13

Bashkimi (Tirana) 1983: May-Aug

box 15

Bashkimi (Tirana) 1983: Sep-Dec

box 14

Bashkimi (Tirana) 1984: Jan-Apr

box 17

Bashkimi (Tirana) 1984: May 2-Aug 31

box 17

Bashkimi (Tirana) 1984: Sep 1-Dec 31

box 16

Bashkimi (Tirana) 1985: Jan 3-Apr 30

box 18

Bashkimi (Tirana) 1985: May-Aug

box 18

Bashkimi (Tirana) 1985: Sep-Dec

box 22

Bashkimi (Tirana) 1986: Jan-Apr

box 22

Bashkimi (Tirana) 1986: May-Aug

box 24

Bashkimi (Tirana) 1986: Sep-Dec

box 23

Bashkimi (Tirana) 1987: Jan-Apr

box 23

Bashkimi (Tirana) 1987: May-Aug

box 12

Bashkimi (Tirana) 1987: Sep-Dec

box 11

Bashkimi (Tirana) 1988: Jan-Apr

box 10

Bashkimi (Tirana) 1988: May-Aug

box 20

Bashkimi (Tirana) 1988: Sep-Dec

box 19

Bashkimi (Tirana) 1990: Jan-Apr

box 20

Bashkimi (Tirana) 1990: Jan-Apr

box 21

Bashkimi (Tirana) 1990: May-Aug

box 19

Bashkimi (Tirana) 1990: Sep-Dec

box 21

Bashkimi (Tirana) 1991: May-Dec

 

Flamuri: organ of the Albanian Agrarian Democratic Party "Balli Kombëtar.. (Roma [publisher not identified], 1973: Oct 3) 390488

box 51

Flamuri (Rome) 1973: Oct

 

Pasqyra. (Tirane : Pasqyra, 1991: Jul 2 - Dec 24) 2132957

box 4

Pasqyra (Tirana) 1991: Jul 2 -Dec 24

 

Puna : organ i keshillit qendror te B.P.Sh. (Tirane: [publisher not identified], 1969: Apr -1991: Dec) 13012195

box 28

Puna (Tirana) 1969: Apr-Dec 30

Scope and Contents

Missing: Apr 4; Aug 15; Sep 19; Oct 7; Dec 19,30.
box 27

Puna (Tirana) 1970: Jan 6-Dec 22

Scope and Contents

Missing: Jan 6,9; Sep 11,22; Oct 6, 20,23; Nov 3,10,27; Dec 15.
box 27

Puna (Tirana) 1972: Jan 5-Dec 29

Scope and Contents

Missing: Dec 28, 31.
box 29

Puna (Tirana) 1973: Jan 5-Dec 28

Scope and Contents

Missing: Jun 15; Aug 17; Sep 28.
box 28

Puna (Tirana) 1974: Apr-Dec

Scope and Contents

Missing: Sep 6; Dec 23,27,31.
box 28

Puna (Tirana) 1975: Jan-Dec

box 26

Puna (Tirana) 1976: Jul-Dec

box 31

Puna (Tirana) 1977: Jan 1-Dec 31

Scope and Contents

Missing: May 27
box 30

Puna (Tirana) 1978: Jan-Dec

box 29

Puna (Tirana) 1979: Jan-Dec

Scope and Contents

Some numbers missing
box 30

Puna (Tirana) 1980: Jan-Dec

box 15

Puna (Tirana) 1982: Sep 3-Dec

box 22

Puna (Tirana) 1983: Jan 3-Dec 30

box 24

Puna (Tirana) 1984: Oct 19-Dec 29

Scope and Contents

Missing: Oct 27; Nov 5; Dec 3,15,19,23.
box 25

Puna (Tirana) 1985: Jan-Dec

box 25

Puna (Tirana) 1986: Jan-Dec

Scope and Contents

Missing: Feb 17; Nov 10,11,25,26; Dec 8-13.
box 24

Puna (Tirana) 1987: Jan-Dec

box 26

Puna (Tirana) 1988: Jan-Dec

box 26

Puna (Tirana) 1990: Jan-Dec

box 25

Puna (Tirana) 1991: Jan-Dec

 

Rilindja demokratike : gazetë e Partisë Demokratike të Shqipërisë. (Tirane: [publisher not identified], 1992: Mar - 2001: Jun) 13012208

box 31

Rilindja demokratike (Tirana) 1992: Mar-Aug

box 31

Rilindja demokratike (Tirana) 1992: Oct-Dec

box 33

Rilindja demokratike (Tirana) 1993: Apr-Jun

box 33

Rilindja demokratike (Tirana) 1993: Jan-Mar

box 33

Rilindja demokratike (Tirana) 1993: Jul-Sep

box 33

Rilindja demokratike (Tirana) 1993: Oct -Dec

box 34

Rilindja demokratike (Tirana) 1994: Apr-Jun

box 34

Rilindja demokratike (Tirana) 1994: Jan-Mar

box 34

Rilindja demokratike (Tirana) 1994: Jul-Sep

box 35

Rilindja demokratike (Tirana) 1994: Oct-Dec

box 36

Rilindja demokratike (Tirana) 1995: Apr-Jun

box 35

Rilindja demokratike (Tirana) 1995: Jan-Mar

box 36

Rilindja demokratike (Tirana) 1995: Jul-Sep

box 37

Rilindja demokratike (Tirana) 1995: Oct-Dec

box 38

Rilindja demokratike (Tirana) 1996: Apr- Jun

box 37

Rilindja demokratike (Tirana) 1996: Jan-Mar

box 38

Rilindja demokratike (Tirana) 1996: Jul 2-Sep 29

box 32

Rilindja demokratike (Tirana) 1996: Oct-Dec

box 39

Rilindja demokratike (Tirana) 1997: Apr-Jun

Scope and Contents

Missing one number
box 32

Rilindja demokratike (Tirana) 1997: Jan 4-Mar 30

Scope and Contents

Some numbers missing
box 39

Rilindja demokratike (Tirana) 1997: Jul-Sep

box 40

Rilindja demokratike (Tirana) 1997: Oct-Dec

box 41

Rilindja demokratike (Tirana) 1998: Jan-Feb

Scope and Contents

Duplicate
box 40

Rilindja demokratike (Tirana) 1998: Jan-Mar

box 41

Rilindja demokratike (Tirana) 1998: Jul-Sep

box 41

Rilindja demokratike (Tirana) 1998: Jun

box 42

Rilindja demokratike (Tirana) 1998: Oct-Dec

box 43

Rilindja demokratike (Tirana) 1999: Apr-Jun

box 2

Rilindja demokratike (Tirana) 1999: Dec

box 42

Rilindja demokratike (Tirana) 1999: Jan-Mar

box 43

Rilindja demokratike (Tirana) 1999: Jul-Aug

box 1

Rilindja demokratike (Tirana) 1999: Sep-Nov

box 5

Rilindja demokratike (Tirana) 2000: Aug-Oct

box 2

Rilindja demokratike (Tirana) 2000: Jan-Feb

box 3

Rilindja demokratike (Tirana) 2000: Jul

box 3

Rilindja demokratike (Tirana) 2000: Mar-Apr

box 4

Rilindja demokratike (Tirana) 2000: May-Jun

box 6

Rilindja demokratike (Tirana) 2000: Nov-Dec

box 7

Rilindja demokratike (Tirana) 2001: Feb

box 6

Rilindja demokratike (Tirana) 2001: Jan

box 7

Rilindja demokratike (Tirana) 2001: Mar-Apr

box 8

Rilindja demokratike (Tirana) 2001: May-Jun

 

Zeri i popullit. (Tirane: Komitet Central te P.P. SH., 1978: Feb - 1991: Dec) 392675

box 44

Zeri i popullit (Tirana) 1978: Feb 10 Mar 2 3 Nov 14 1979: Dec 9 13

box 44

Zeri i popullit (Tirana) 1986: Jan-Apr

box 44

Zeri i popullit (Tirana) 1986: May-Aug

box 45

Zeri i popullit (Tirana) 1986: Sep-Dec

Scope and Contents

Missing: Sep 29,30.
box 46

Zeri i popullit (Tirana) 1987: Apr 28-Aug

box 45

Zeri i popullit (Tirana) 1987: Jan-Apr

box 45

Zeri i popullit (Tirana) 1987: Sep-Dec

box 46

Zeri i popullit (Tirana) 1988: Jan-Apr

box 47

Zeri i popullit (Tirana) 1988: May-Aug

Scope and Contents

Missing: Aug 14
box 46

Zeri i popullit (Tirana) 1988: Sep -Dec

box 47

Zeri i popullit (Tirana) 1990: Jan-Mar

box 47

Zeri i popullit (Tirana) 1990: May-Aug

box 48

Zeri i popullit (Tirana) 1990: Sep-Dec

box 48

Zeri i popullit (Tirana) 1991: Jan-Apr

box 48

Zeri i popullit (Tirana) 1991: May-Aug

box 49

Zeri i popullit (Tirana) 1991: Sep-Dec

 

Zeri i rinisë. (Tirane [Albania]: Komitetit Qendror te Bashkimit te Rinise se Punes se Shqiperise, 1985: Jan - 1991: Dec) 392676

box 49

Zeri i rinise ( Tirana) 1985: Jan-Dec

box 49

Zeri i rinise ( Tirana) 1986: Jan-Dec

box 50

Zeri i rinise ( Tirana) 1987: Jan-Dec

box 50

Zeri i rinise ( Tirana) 1988: Jan-Dec

box 51

Zeri i rinise ( Tirana) 1990: Jan-Dec

box 51

Zeri i rinise ( Tirana) 1991: Jan-Dec