Newspapers Section
Some Section Achievements
NB: The Round Table on Newspapers was made in to the IFLA Newspapers Section in 2002. Before 1989, the Round Table was known as the IFLA Working Group on Newspapers.
- The International Symposium on Newspaper Preservation and Access, London, August 1987. Proceedings published in two volumes as IFLA Publications numbers 45 and 46 (K.G. Saur, 1988)
- Seminar on La Presse de la Liberté, Paris, 1989. Proceedings published as IFLA Publications no. 58 (K.G. Saur, 1991)
- International Guidelines for the Cataloguing of Newspapers. Published by IFLA UBCIM Office, 1989
- International Symposium on Managing the Preservation of Serial Literature, Washington, May 1989. Co-sponsored with the IFLA Sections on Serial Publications and on Conservation, the IFLA Core Programme on Preservation and Conservation and the Library of Congress. Proceedings published as IFLA Publications no. 57 (K.G. Saur, 1992)
- Workshop on Newspaper Preservation. New Delhi, 1992
- Workshop on Microfilming or Digitization for Preservation of Newspapers and other Material, Beijing, 1996.
- Guidelines for Newspaper Preservation Microfilming. IFLA, 1996. Professional Reports no. 49. (Translations in French and Spanish also available)
- Gerer la conservation des periodiques et de la presse/ Managing the Preservation of Periodicals and Newspapers. IFLA Symposium, Bibliotheque nationale de France, Paris, August 21-24, 2000.
- Directory of Newspaper Collections. IFLANET, August 2000.
- Microfilming for Digitisation and Optical Recognition. Supplement to Guidelines for Newspaper Preservation Microfilming, 1996. IFLANET, 2002.
