15,000+ New Documents Added to LTDL

We've been hard at work adding new tobacco industry documents to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library!

These additions include documents pulled down from the industry sites; "Bliley" and industry documents from Tobacco Documents Online (TDO); BAT documents from the Guildford Depository; and over 2000 Philip Morris Engineering Department documents that had previously been in storage on microfilm.

The breakdown of additions is as follows:

• Brown & Williamson - 691 documents; 7315 pages
• British American Tobacco - 12,443 documents; 31,205 pages
• Philip Morris microfilm - 2004 documents; 92,576 pages
• RJ Reynolds - 75 documents; 71,004 pages
• Tobacco Institute - 131 documents; 426 pages
  Total: 15,344 documents; 202,526 pages

To find these newly added documents, search on the date they were posted to LTDL - <ddu:20090402>

**As of Thursday, April 2, 2009, LTDL contains 52,327,409 pages in 10,056,289 documents.**

Many thanks to TDO for sharing documents with us and allowing us to work towards completing our holdings in certain collections and special collections!