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        <titleproper>A Guide to the Mountain Courier Collection, <date era="ce" calendar="gregorian"
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      <titleproper>Mountain Courier Collection, <date era="ce" calendar="gregorian"
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      <head>Descriptive Summary </head>
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      <repository label="Repository" encodinganalog="852$a">Shenandoah County Library</repository>
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      <unittitle label="Title">Mountain Courier Collection, <unitdate era="ce" calendar="gregorian"
          >1994-2008</unitdate></unittitle>
      <unitid label="Collection Number">2021-0001</unitid>
      <physloc label="Location">Microfilm Cabinet A</physloc>
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      <physdesc label="Physical Characteristics"><extent>5 microfilm boxes, 2.5 linear
        feet</extent></physdesc>
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      <langmaterial label="Language">Materials in this collection are in
          <language>English</language>.</langmaterial>
      <abstract label="Abstract">Bryce Mountain Courier (later Mountain Courier) newspaper published
        in Basye, Virginia. Editions from 1994-2008.</abstract>
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      <head>Administrative Information</head>
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      <accessrestrict id="ref2">
        <head>Conditions Governing Access</head>
        <p>This collection is open to researchers without restrictions. Researchers must register
          and agree to all copyright laws and archives policies before using the collection. Please
          contact the Shenandoah County Library before visiting to use this collection.</p>
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      <prefercite id="ref5">
        <head>Preferred Citation</head>
        <p>[Identification of item] <emph render="italic">Mountain Courier Collection</emph>, Truban
          Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia, USA.</p>
      </prefercite>
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      <acqinfo id="ref4">
        <head>Immediate Source of Acquisition</head>
        <p>Donated by Mountain Courier, Amy Voss-Devito editor.</p>
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      <processinfo id="ref7">
        <head>Processing Information</head>
        <p>Four reels were donated in their original boxes and 1 reel was donated without a box.
          Items were rehoused and new labels produced bearing the same information as the original
          labels. The dates of the unboxed reel were confirmed and a label, in the same style as the
          other four boxes, was produced. The boxes are organized chronologically within the
          microfilm cabinet. </p>
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    <bioghist>
      <head>Administrative History</head>
      <p>The Bryce Mountain Courier (later Mountain Courier) is a free newspaper published in the
        Basye community of Shenandoah County Virginia. It provides coverage of the region’s people,
        places, organizations, and businesses. First published in 1994, its circulation is estimated
        at approximately 7,000. </p>
      <p>"Bryce Mountain Courier." Mondo Times. Mondo Code LLC. Accessed August 3, 2021. <extref
          xlink:href="https://www.mondotimes.com/1/world/us/46/6100/19058" xlink:type="simple"
          >https://www.mondotimes.com/1/world/us/46/6100/19058</extref>.</p>
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      <head>Scope and Content</head>
      <p>The Mountain Courier Collection contains five (5) reels of microfilm dated from 1994 when
        the paper began publishing through 2008. Each reel contains complete sets of the newspaper
        for an assigned period of time. </p>
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      <head>Index Terms</head>
      <controlaccess>
        <head>Subjects:</head>
        <subject>Basye (Va)</subject>
        <subject>Newspapers-Virginia-Shenandoah County</subject>
        <subject>Shenandoah County (Va)</subject>
        <subject>Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.)</subject>
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        <did>
          <unittitle>Reel 1: Bryce Mountain Courier (Basye, Virginia), 
            <unitdate type="inclusive">April 1994-December 1998</unitdate>
          </unittitle>
        </did>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Reel 2: Bryce Mountain Courier (Basye, Virginia), 
            <unitdate type="inclusive">January 1999-December 2001</unitdate>
          </unittitle>
        </did>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Reel 3: Bryce Mountain Courier (Basye, Virginia), 
            <unitdate type="inclusive">January 2002-December 2004</unitdate>
          </unittitle>
        </did>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Reel 4: Bryce Mountain Courier (Basye, Virginia), 
            <unitdate type="inclusive">January 2005-December 2006</unitdate>
          </unittitle>
        </did>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Reel 5: Bryce Mountain Courier (Basye, Virginia),
            <unitdate type="inclusive">January 2007-December 2008</unitdate>
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