Papers Presented at the IFLA International Newspapers Conference 2012

In April 2012, the IFLA Newspaper Section, IFLA PAC Stretegic Programme, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France held the 2012 IFLA International Newspaper Conference in Paris, France. The Conference took place at the Bibliothèque nationale de France during a major exhibition titled “La Presse à la Une”, dedicated to the History of the Newspapers in France at the BnF.

See the event webpage for more information.

Conference theme:

Newspaper Digitization and Preservation: New Prospects. Stakeholders, Practices, Users and Business Models”

Opening Keynote Speeches

• Emmanuel Hoog, President, Agence France-Presse, France
• Patrick Eveno, Media Historian, Pantheon-Sorbonne Paris 1 University, France

11 April: Mass Digitization of Newspaper Collections: Stakeholders and Business Models

First session: Digitization by Newspaper Groups

• Presentation: Le Monde
  By Sebastien Carganico, Head of the Documentation Service, Le Monde, France
• Presentation: Ouest-France
  Jacek Brzezinski, Deputy Secretary General of Ouest-France, France
• Presentation: Corriere della Sera
  Walter Colombo, DACS (Digitalizzazione Archivio Corriere della Sera) Project Manager, Italy, Claudio Albanese, IDM (Integra Document Management), Italy, and Shalev Vayness, ISAKO, France

Second session: Digitization by Public Institutions

• Presentation of the Newspaper Digitization Programme of the French National Library
  Pascal Sanz, Director of Department Law, Economics, Politics, BnF, France
• The South African National Library and the Digitization of the Early Years of the Black Press
  Douwe Drijfhout, Executive Head, Preservation Services, National Library of South Africa
• Digitization of French-speaking newspaper collections in Egypt at the Centre d’Etudes Alexandrines (CNRS USR 3134)
  Jessie Maucor, Head of digitization Department, CEAlex, Alexandria, Egypt

Third session: Public-Private Partnership for Digitization Programmes

• A Unique Public-Private Sector Partnership: the case of The British Library
  Patrick Fleming, Associate Director, The British Library, and Chris van der Kuyl, Chief Executive Officer, Brightsolid, UK
• Swiss Cultural Heritage Online: Public-Private Partnerships for Newspaper Digitization in Switzerland
  Geneviève Clavel, Head of National and International Cooperation, Swiss National Library, Switzerland
• Partnership Models in Newspaper Digitization: A Synthesis
  Edmund King, Former Secretary of IFLA Newspaper Section, Head of Newspaper Collections, British Library, UK

12 April: Newspapers on Line: Content and Access

First session: Collecting News and Newspapers

• Legal Deposit of Online Newspapers at the BnF
• Clément Oury, Head of Digital Legal Deposit Service, BnF, France
  Private Aggregator: Europresse.com : the 360° Information Monitoring Solution
• Raymond Descout, Vice-President Europe, CEDROM-SNi, Canada/France
• European Aggregator: A Gateway to European Newspapers
  Thorsten Siegmann, Project Coordinator, Berlin State Library, Germany

Second session: The Public and Access

• A Short Report on Digitised Newspapers Including Web Analytics and Other Marvelous Stuff
  Frederick Zarndt, Chair, IFLA Newspapers Section
• Post Digitization: Challenges in Managing a Dynamic Dataset
  Jasper Faase, Project Manager, Innovative Projects, National Library of The Netherlands (KB)
• The Benefits of Digitization: Crowdsourcing, E-delivery and Research Efforts at the National Library of Finland
  Majlis Bremer-Laamanen, Director, Centre for Microfilming and Conservation, Helsinki University Library, National Library of Finland
• Presentation of Recent Developments by the National Library of Singapore in the field of Newspaper Digitization and Access
  Leong Sek Choon, National Library of Singapore

Third session: Archiving the Press Photo

• Introduction
  Daniel Barroy
• Archiving the Press Photo at the French National Library
  Dominique Versavel, In charge of the Collection of Modern Photography, BnF, France
• Archiving the Press Photo at the National Library of Austria
  Hans Petschar, Director, Picture Archives and Graphics Department, National Library of Austria
• Presentation: Agence France-Presse
  Francis Kohn, Director, Photography Department, AFP, France
• Back to the Future: Hulton Archive by Getty Images (presentation 1)
  Jeff Guilbault, Senior, Getty Images (Paris), France, and Matthew Butson, Vice-President, Hulton Archive, Getty Images (London), UK

13 April: Preserving Original and Digital Newspaper Collections

First session: The Challenge of Preserving Original Newspaper Collections

• Restore and Preserve in order to Digitize
  Philippe Vallas, Deputy Director, Preservation Department, BnF, France
• Deacidification of rare newspapers as a part of the Digital Jagiellonian Library Preserving Programme
  Aleksandra Szalla-Kleeman, Head of Conservation Studio, Jagiellonian Library, Cracow, Poland
• Storage of the Newspaper Collections at the British Library
  Deborah Novotny, Head of Collection Care, The British Library, UK
• Shared Preservation and Digitization: the example of ARALD (Agence Rhône-Alpes pour le livre et la documentation)
  Antoine Fauchié and Odile Cramard, ARALD, France

Second session: From Paper to Digital through Microfilm

• Presentation of the International Herald Tribune Strategy (part 1; part 2)
  Bernadette Murphy, Head of Information Services, International Herald Tribune, France
• Presentation of the Presentation of the COM Technology: An International Overview
  Jörg Vogler, Expert, President of Zeutschel, Germany

Third session: Long-Term Preservation of Digitized and Born-Digital Newspaper Collections

• Presentation of SPAR (Scalable Preservation and Archiving Repository)
  Thomas Ledoux, Engineer, SPAR Project Manager, BnF, France
• Presentation of the Library of Congress National Digital Newspaper Programme (NDNP)
  Deborah Thomas, Programme Coordinator for the National Digital Newspaper Programme, Library of Congress, and Susan L. Kellerman, Secretary, IFLA Newspaper Section, Pennsylvania State University Libraries, USA