Past Conferences

1994-2008: Papers Presented at IFLA Conferences

2009, 23-27 August

World Library and Information Congress: Milan, Italy
"Newspapers in the Mediterranean and the Evolution of the Modern State"

Les collections de presse à la Bibliothèque Nationale Centrale de Rome: face au défi de la sédimentation et de la transmission d'une mémoire collective nationale
PAOLA PUGLISI (Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vittorio Emanuele II, Rome, Italy)

Digitizing the Historical Periodical Collection at the Al-Aqsa Mosque Library in East Jerusalem
KRYSTYANA K. MATUSIAK (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries, Milwaukee, USA)

The role of scientific journals following the unification of Italy
LORETTA DE FRANCESCHI (University of Urbino, Urbino, Italy)

"The power of lead" - the role of the nineteenth-century British Press in keeping the "Italian Question" before 1860 on the British political agenda and in the minds of the British Public
DENIS REIDY (The British Library, London, United Kingdom)

2009, 19-20 August

Satellite Meeting of the World Library and Information Congress: Stockholm, Sweden
"The Present becomes the past: harvesting, archiving, presenting today’s digitally produced newspapers"

2009, 13-16 April

IFLA International Newspaper Conference: Mozhaisk, Russian Federation
"Legal deposit of newspapers for libraries: challenges of the digital environment"
Slide show on YouTube

2008, 10-14 August

World Library and Information Congress: Québec, Canada
"The North American Ethnic Press"
Canadian Inuit newspapers and periodicals: past, present and future
SHARON RANKIN (McGill University Library, Montréal, Canada)
Publication, access and preservation of Scandinavian immigrant press in North America
JAMES SIMON and PATRICIA FINNEY (Center for Research Libraries, Chicago, USA)
Documenting immigrant experiences: a study of the Chinese-language newspapers published in the USA and Canada
TAO YANG (The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, USA)
Sauvegarder et numériser la presse des immigrations en France à la BnF, XIXème-XXème siècles
PHILIPPE MEZZASALMA (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France)

2008, 1-3 April

IFLA International Newspaper Conference: Singapore, National Library of Singapore
"Old Issues, New Issues - Impact of Digital Technology upon Contemporary and Historic Newspapers"

2007, 19-23 August

World Library and Information Congress: 73rd IFLA General Conference and Council: Durban, South Africa
"Libraries for the future: Progress, Development and Partnerships"
"African Newspapers: Access and Technology"
Initiatives in Kenya for digitizing, indexing and preserving newspapers

PAMELA HOWARD-REGUINDIN (U.S. Library of Congress Office, Nairobi, Kenya)
Strategies for increased access to older newspapers: the experience of Makarere University Africana / Special Collection Section

MARGARET NAKIGANDA (Makerere University Library, Kampala, Uganda)
Alternative solutions for storing, archiving and preserving newspaper collections: the National Library of South Africa's recent experience

DOUWE DRIJFHOUT (National Library of South Africa, South Africa)
Ipsissima Verba: The Future of Newspaper Preservation In an Age of Epidemic URLitis

DOROTHY C. WOODSON (Yale University, New Haven, USA)

2007, 3-5 April

International Conference on Newspapers Collection Management: Santiago de Chile, National Library of Chile
"Printed and Digital Challenges"

2006, 19-21 October

International Newspaper Conference: Poznan, Poland
"Newspapers: Resources, Processing, Preservation, Digitization, Promotion / Information"

2006, 20-24 August

World Library and Information Congress: 72nd IFLA General Conference and Council: Seoul, Republic of Korea
"Libraries: Dynamic Engines for the Knowledge and Information Society"
"Newspapers of East Asia"
The Early East Asian Press in the Eyes of the West Some bibliographical notes
HARTMUT WALRAVENS (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany)
Microfilming and Cataloging the Newspapers in the National Diet Library (NDL)
KEIYU HORIKOSI (National Diet Library, Tokyo, Japan)
The Internet Age - Journalists' information power is changing
SEONHWA JANG (Seoul Economic Daily, Seoul, Korea)
Digital News: Key to global literacy and information literacy education
LISA JANICKE HINCHLIFFE and DAWN SCHMITZ (University of Illinois, Urbana (IL), USA)
The History of Korean Newspapers and generation trends
SANG HEE KWEON (Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea)

2006, 17-18 May

International Newspaper Conference: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
"Newspapers of the World Online: U.S. and International Perspectives"

2005, 14-18 August

World Library and Information Congress: 71st IFLA General Conference and Council: Oslo, Norway
"Libraries - A voyage of discovery"

"Newspaper digitisation projects. Developments in the online availability of older newspapers" Les développements en matière de périodiques électroniques a la Bibliothèque Nationale de France: la numérisation de la presse quotidienne française du milieu du XIXème siècle a 1944

PASCAL SANZ (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France) 10 Billion Words: The British Library British Newspapers 1800-1900 Project: Some guidelines for large-scale newspaper digitisation

JANE SHAW (The British Library, London, UK) Connecting to the past - newspaper digitisation in the Nordic Countries

MAJLIS BREMER-LAAMANEN (University of Helsinki, Mikkeli, Finland) Trend of Newspaper Digitization in China
YANG BIN (Datum Data Company, Being, China)