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Newspapers Section
Scope
The Section is concerned with all issues relating to newspapers in
libraries and archives, including acquisition and collection
development; intellectual and physical access; storage and handling;
preservation of newspapers and their contents; interlibrary lending;
and the impact of digital technologies on all of these.
Strategic Plan
2008-2009 | 2006-2007
Projects
Publications
- Newspapers in Central and Eastern
Europe.
Zeitungen in Mittel- und Osteuropa
- Newspapers in International
Librarianship
- Microfilming for Digitisaton and
Optical Character Recognition
(Supplement to Guidelines for Newspaper Preservation
Microfilming)
Newsletter
Annual Report
Conferences
- 2008, 10-14 August:
Call for Papers World Library
and Information Congress: Québec, Canada - "The North American
Ethnic Press"
- 2008, 1-3 April:
IFLA International Newspaper Conference Singapore: Old Issues,
New Issues - Impact of Digital Technology upon Contemporary and
Historic Newspapers
National Library of Singapore
Programme,
Registration, Call for Papers, Sponsorship, Conference
Venue
- 2007, 20 August:
World Library and Information Congress: 73rd IFLA General
Conference and Council, Durban, South Africa - Session 103
"African Newspapers: Access and Technology"
Papers:
- 2007, 3-5 April:
International Conference on Newspapers Collection Management:
Printed and Digital Challenges
National Library of Chile, Santiago
Final
Programme, Registration and Hotel Reservation
Call for papers
- 2006 Newspapers
Conference: "NEWSPAPERS. Resources. Processing. Preservation.
Digitization. Promotion / Information."
19-21 October 2006, Poznan School of Social Sciences, Poznan,
Poland
- 2006
International Newspaper Conference - "Newspapers of the World
Online: U.S. and International Perspectives"
17-18 May 2006, University of Utah Campus, Salt Lake City, Utah,
USA
- 1994-2006: Papers Presented at
IFLA Conferences
Minutes of Meetings
- 28th Meeting, Singapore,
April 2008
- 27th Meeting, Durban,
South Africa, August 2007
- 26th Meeting,
Santiago, Chile, April 2007
- 25th Meeting, Seoul,
Korea, August 2006
- 24th Meeting, Salt Lake
City, USA, March 2006
- 23rd Meeting, Oslo,
Norway, August 2005
- 22nd Meeting,
Canberra, Australia, February 2005
- 21th Meeting,
Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 2004
- 20th Meeting,
Shanghai, China, March 2004
- 19th Meeting, Berlin,
Germany, August 2003
- 18th Meeting, Cape Town, South
Africa, March 2003
- 17th Meeting, Glasgow, Scotland,
August 2002
- 16th Meeting, Mikkeli, Finland,
June 2002
- 14th Meeting, San Francisco, USA,
April 2001
- 13th Meeting, Paris, France, August
2000
- 12th Meeting, Moscow, Russian
Federation, May 2000
Directory of Newspaper
Collections
Alphabetical Listings
Newspaper Electronic
Resources
In the online environment, there are now many links to newspapers both
current and historic. The lists at the links below will help you find
further newspaper content.
Useful Addresses
Chair:
Hartmut Walravens
Library Director Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
D-10772 BERLIN
Germany
Tel. +(49)(30)2662498
Fax +(49)(30)2662378
E-mail: hwalravens@gmx.net
Secretary/Treasurer:
Edmund King
Head, BL Newspaper Collections
The British Library
Colindale Avenue
LONDON NW1 4UA
United Kingdom
Tel. +(44)(20)74127362
Fax +(44)(20)74127386
E-mail: ed.king@bl.uk
Information Coordinator/Editor of
Newsletter:
Linda Ronan
Project coordinator ICON
The Center for Research Libraries
6050 Kenwood Ave
CHICAGO IL 60637
United States
Tel. +(1)(800)6216044/+(1)(773)9554545
Fax +(1)(773)9554339
E-mail: lronan@crl.edu
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