Conferences

Summer 2024

2024 IFLA International News Media Conference

CFP for 2024 Mid-Term Meeting by News Media Section with Digital Humanities/Digital Scholarship SIG, Preservation & Conservation Section, and Information Literacy Section.

Summer 2023

CFP for 2023 WLIC Open Session by News Media Section

Summer 2022

CFP for 2022 WLIC Open Session by News Media Section

Summer 2021

2021 WLIC Open Session

Fall 2020-Spring 2021

2020 Virtual Lecture Series, joint with News Media, Digital Humanities, FAIFE, and Copyright/Legal Matters

Organizer: Ana Krahmer
Organizing Committee: Spencer Acadia, Raphaëlle Bats, Laurie Bridges, Eric Chin, Mary Feeney, Ann Okerson Richard Richie, Kopana Terry, Deborah Thomas, Anke Winsmann, Frederick Zarndt

Theme: Fake News: Impact on Society

Lecture 1: 30 October 2020, 16:00 CET

Presenters

Phillip Russell, “‘Stop, Think, Check’: Ireland’s Be Media Smart Campaign”

Giuseppe Vitiello, “Assessing the Promotion of Freedom of Expression and Free Access to Information in Libraries: Implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goal 16.10 through the EBLIDA-NewsGuard partnership”

Moderators: Ana Krahmer, Raphaëlle Bats, Eric Chin, Frederick Zarndt

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Lecture 2: 18 November 2020, 17:00 CET

Presenters

Abby Moore & Catherine Tingelstad, “Nuanced Literacy and Fake News: Academic Librarians’ Role in New Information Environments”

Enrica Manenti, “‘Handle with Double Care.’ Memorial Sites, Teens, Libraries and Wikipedia”

Moderators: Ana Krahmer, Laurie Bridges, Mary Feeney, Kopana Terry

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Lecture 3: 21 January 2021, 17:00 CET

Presenters

Katharina Beckh & Vishwani Gupta, “Supporting Verification of News Articles with Machine Learning Methods: Automated Search for Semantically Similar Articles”

Katherine E. Boss, April Hines, Jeffrey Knapp, et. al., “‘It would be horrible if I printed something that wasn’t true’: Examining the Research Behaviors of Journalism Students”

Moderators: Ana Krahmer, Spencer Acadia, Mary Feeney, Kopana Terry

Lecture 3: Register Here

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Lecture 4: 8 February 2021, 16:00 CET

Presenters

Damien Wang & Sara Pek, “Strengthening Information Literacy in the Time of COVID-19: The Role and Contributions of the National Library of Singapore”

Victor Mutyev, “News Analytics in LIS Education and Practice”

Moderators: Ana Krahmer, Frederick Zarndt, Rich Richie, Anke Winsmann

Lecture 4: Register Here

2020 IFLA International News Media Mid-Year Conference
5-6 March 2020, Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliotecológicas y de la Información de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico

Theme: Capture and Preservation of Born Digital News Media

2019

2019 World Library and Information Congress: 85th IFLA General Conference and Assembly

24-30 August 2019, Athens, Greece

News Media Section joint with Digital Humanities – Digital Scholarship Special Interest Group

Theme: Success Stories and Challenges: News Media Re-used in Research and by the General Public

Call for papers

2018

2018 IFLA International News Media Conference
18-20 April 2018, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
Theme: When Risk becomes Real, Preserving News becomes Critical

2017

2017 IFLA News Media Satellite Conference
16-18 August 2017,Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB), Zellescher Weg 18, 01069 Dresden, Germany
Theme: Relying on News Media. Perspectives for Long Term Preservation and Our Collective Memory
See: Call for papers (English) (German) | Papers Presented

2017 IFLA International News Media Conference
27-28 April 2017, Landsbókasafn Íslands – Háskólabókasafn (The National and University Library of Iceland), Reykjavík, Iceland
Theme: Collecting, Preserving, and Transforming the News – for Research and the Public

2016

World Library and Information Congress: 82nd IFLA General Conference and Assembly
13-19 August 2016, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Theme: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: The Current State of Born Digital News
See: Call for papers | Papers Presented

2016 IFLA News Media Satellite Meeting
10-12 August 2016, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Theme: News, new roles & preservation advocacy: moving libraries into action
See: Call for papers | Papers Presented

2016 IFLA News Media Conference
20-22 April 2016, Hamburg, Germany
Theme: Reviving the past and keeping up with the future – the libraries’ role in preserving and providing access to newspapers and news media
See: Call for papers [English] | [German]

2015

World Library and Information Congress: 81^st IFLA General Conference and Assembly
16-21 August 2015, Cape Town, South Africa
Theme: Local – African – Global: The Dynamics of News Media and How Libraries Cope With It
See: Call for papers | Papers Presented
IFLA 2015 Pre-Conference in Pretoria, South Africa
12-13 August 2015
Theme: Newspaper e-publishing trends: the stewardship role of librarians
See: Call for papers | Papers Presented
International Newspaper Archiving and Digitization Summit
(held in conjunction with the IFLA News Media Conference)
14 April 2015, The National Library of Sweden, Stockholm Sweden
2015 IFLA International News Media Conference
14-16 April 2015, The National Library of Sweden, Stockholm Sweden
Theme: Transformation of the online news media: implications for preservation and access
See: Call for papers | Papers Presented | Papers Presented (conference’s website)

2014

World Library and Information Congress: 80th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
16-22 August 2014, Lyon, France
Theme: All we need is news – knowledge production and dissemination through news media
See: Call for papers
Papers Presented

WLIC 2014 Satellite Meeting
13-14 August 2014, Geneva, Switzerland
Theme: Digital transformation and the changing role of news media in the 21st Century
See: Call for papers
Please visit the conference website for further details.
Papers Presented

IFLA International Newspapers Conference 2014
4-5 February 2014, FamilySearch Headquarters, Salt Lake City, Utah
Theme: Start spreading the news! Click here to register!
See:
Call for papers
Call for poster session proposals
Please visit the conference website for further details.
Papers presented

2013

World Library and Information Congress: 79th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
17–23 August 2013, Singapore
Theme: Open access and digital resources
See: Papers presented

WLIC 2013 Satellite Meeting
14-15 August 2013, Singapore
Theme: Newspapers to the People
See: Call for papers
Papers presented

2012

World Library and Information Congress: 78th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
11–17 August 2012, Helsinki, Finland
Theme: Users and portals: digital newspapers, usability, and genealogy
Newspapers with Genealogy and Local History

IFLA 2012 Pre-Conference
7–9 August 2012, Mikkeli, Finland
Theme: The Electronic Re-evolution – News Media in the Digital Age

IFLA International Newspaper Conference 2012
11–13 April 2012, Bibliothèque nationale de France
Theme: Newspaper Digitization and Preservation: New Prospects. Stakeholders, Practices, Users and Business Models

2011

World Library and Information Congress: 77th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
13–18 August 2011, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Theme: Newspapers in the Caribbean, Central and South America: production, distribution and conservation. Cultural heritage and news media in the digital age

IFLA International Newspaper Conference 2011
25–27 April 2011, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Theme: Newspaper in Multiple Scripts and Multiple Languages: Issues and Challenges for National Heritage

2010

World Library and Information Congress: 76th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
10–15 August, Gothenburg, Sweden
Theme: Relations between publishers, standards, organisations and libraries: Transforming links between publishers, readers and libraries
IFLA International Newspaper Conference 2010: New Delhi, India
25–28 February
Theme: Digital Preservation and Access to News and Views
Final Report

2009

World Library and Information Congress: 75th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
23–27 August 2009, Milan, Italy
Theme: Newspapers in the Mediterranean and the evolution of the modern state

Satellite Meeting of the World Library and Information Congress: Stockholm, Sweden
19-20 August
Theme: “The Present becomes the past: harvesting, archiving, presenting today’s digitally produced newspapers”

IFLA International Newspaper Conference: Mozhaisk, Russian Federation
13-16 April
“Legal deposit of newspapers for libraries: challenges of the digital environment”
Slide show on YouTube

1994-2008: Papers Presented at IFLA Conferences

2008

World Library and Information Congress: 74th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
August 2008, Québec, Canada
Theme: The North American Ethnic Press

IFLA International Newspaper Conference: Singapore, National Library of Singapore
1-3 April
“Old Issues, New Issues – Impact of Digital Technology upon Contemporary and Historic Newspapers“

2007

World Library and Information Congress: 74th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
10-15 August, Durban, South Africa
Theme: African Newspapers: Access and Technology

International Conference on Newspapers Collection Management: Santiago de Chile, National Library of Chile
3-5 April
“Printed and Digital Challenges“

2006

World Library and Information Congress: 72nd IFLA General Conference and Council: Seoul, Republic of Korea

Theme: Newspapers of East Asia

International Newspaper Conference: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
17-18 May
“Newspapers of the World Online: U.S. and International Perspectives”
International Newspaper Conference: Poznan, Poland
“Newspapers: Resources, Processing, Preservation, Digitization, Promotion / Information”