A survey of newspapers published in the Malaysian areas; with a union list of local holdings

Abstract

The appended Union List is an attempt to list together all the newspapers known to have been published in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei up to the present. It also lists the holdings of the major Malaysian and Singapore collections and in the absence of local holdings, those of the British Museum. There are several regrets regarding this list. Firstly the work of compilation has taken some time and the information supplied by the contributing libraries is therefore somewhat out-of-date. Ideally, the list should have been re- checked both for accuracy and for up-dating the record. Secondly, a number of institutions have not participated in the project. The most important omissions are the Sarawak Museum and the Straits Times Press both of which have valuable holdings. Others are the Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Nanyang University Library and Sabah Central Library. Thirdly, it has not been possible to trace the bibliographic information about every title. There are too many gaps and question marks in our knowledge of these newspapers. While the date of publication can often be found, the date ceased is extremely difficult to verify. This is therefore, only a preliminary listing, more work is needed a final version can be published.