Newspapers Section
CALL FOR PAPERS
International Conference on Newspapers Collection Management: Printed and Digital Challenges
National Library of Chile, Santiago
3-5 April 2007
Strive, too, that in reading your story ... that the judicious shall admire the
invention...
Cervantes. Don Quixote.
This Conference is to promote good practice in Newspaper Collection, Management and Preservation. It is being co-Organised by the National Library of Chile, the IFLA Newspapers Section, and IFLA-PAC.
The conference is divided into 6 sessions, the themes are listed below.
Each session will last one and a half hours. Papers are to be for a maximum of 25 minutes.
- The digital future for newspapers in Chile (to include metadata, interoperability and publisher issues )
- The digital future for newspapers in American and European countries
- The role of newspaper cataloguing in digitization
- The role of newspaper preservation in digitization
- Copyright, Publishers, legal matters for newspapers
- Education of librarians in newspaper collection management: new perspectives for the role of librarians
Proposals for papers are invited (in the form of an Abstract), particularly from countries of Latin America. Papers may be written in Spanish or in English, and will be presented in either language.
Abstracts need to be submitted to the Conference organisers by the 6 October 2006. Conference organisers will decide whether the proposed paper can be presented to the full conference.
If an abstract is accepted, the author of the paper will be expected to write the full conference paper by the 31 December 2006.
Please submit your abstract by 30 September 2006, containing up to 500 words, to the organisers:
Ximena Cruzat, Director, National Library of Chile
Hartmut Walravens, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
Christiane Baryla, IFLA-PAC
Ed King, British Library Newspapers
