A selective index to the Wilmington News Journal, a component of the “Community Resources” database of the Wilmington Public Library. The index is not identified as the News Journal Index but consists of seven separate indexes (Newspaper Author Browse, Newspaper Author Keyword, etc.) that may be selected on the pull-down menu. When you first access the database, Newspaper Author Browse is selected by default.

Indexing is limited to major local or state articles. No national articles are included unless a local aspect is covered. Obituaries are not indexed unless it is a person of major importance. An average of six articles are indexed each day.

Recent issues (1999 to date) of the News Journal (Wilmington) are available full text online.

The Wilmington Public Library also has a card file called the Old Delaware Index, a subject and biographical index to Wilmington Morning News and Evening Journal articles and selected Delaware history books. It has extensive indexing from the 1920s to 1979, with limited indexing from the 1880s to the 1920s. Obituaries are included for prominent Delawareans. There is a clippings file which accompanies the Index and provides the text of about a third of the entries. The Delaware Index is available only at the Wilmington Public Library.