Newspapers Section
Work in Progress
- Preparing programmes for future open meetings and workshops at IFLA Conferences which will reflect the needs and interests of the host country and its surrounding region
- Guidelines for newspaper microfilming; Supplement on Microfilming for Digitisation and Optical Character Recognition
- Survey of newspaper collection policies and procedures as an aid to co-operative collection development and preservation; eliciting information and up[dating the survey on the IFLANET
- Revisions of international Guidelines for the Cataloguing of Newspapers
- Developing policy statement on retention of newspaper after microfilming
- Organising occasional Workshops on Newspapers with regard to the themes: Access, Preservation, Digitisation
Nominations for membership of the IFLA Newspapers Section, endorsed by an IFLA member institution, are welcomed. Corresponding membership status may be approved in suitable cases.
For more information, please look at the contents of the
Newspaper Section of the IFLANET. or
please contact:
Mr. Edmund King, Secretary
The British Library
Newspaper Library
Colindale Avenue
London NW9 5HE
United Kingdom
Tel.: +71 323 7362
Fax: +71 323 7386
