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1994-2005

2006:
World Library and Information Congress: 72nd IFLA General Conference, Seoul, Korea

Theme: 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)

2005:
World Library and Information Congress: 71st IFLA General Conference, Oslo, Norway

Theme: 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)

Satellite Meeting
10–11 August 2005
Mo i Rana, National Library, Norway
Arctic Circle Conservation Colloquium: Preservation Storage Solution for all Library Materials

Jointly Organised by the IFLA Newspapers Section and the IFLA Preservation and Conservation Section

1. Use of Search Engine Technologies, Speeding up information access in digital libraries: the National Library of Norway approach
2. Welcome to the National Library of Norway
3. Environmental Control
   Anders S. Myrbakk, Conservator
4. Digital Preservation Newspapers and Periodicals
   Solveig Seines, National Library of Norway, Oslo, Norway
5. Digital Preservation of Photography
   Kjetil Iversen, National Library of Norway, Oslo, Norway
6. The BL additional storage programme
   Ed King, Head, BL Newspaper Collections, London, UK
7. Preservation policy - The digital domain
   Svein Arne Solbakk, Director of ICT division, National Library of Norway, Oslo, Norway
8. Automation of Storage Processes
   Kari Mathisen, Collections and Bibliographic Services
9. Preservation planning policy: Lessons learned
   Lars Gaustad, Preservation adviser, National Library of Norway
10. Multiple Media Archives
    Lars Gaustad, Preservation adviser, National Library of Norway
11. Sound and Video Collections at the NationalLibrary of Norway
    Lars Gaustad, Preservation adviser, National Library of Norway
12. Preventive Conservation in the National Library
    Gunhild K. Myrbakk

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2004:
World Library and Information Congress: 70th IFLA General Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Theme: Newspapers of Latin America

1. Proyecto: "Digitalización de la Prensa Latinoamericana del Siglo XIX" (Digitalización de la prensa de la Gran Colombia: 1820 a 1830)
   Project: "Digitization of the 19th Century Latin American Press" (Digitization of the Great Colombia Press: 1820-1830)
   ALFONSO QUINTERO (Secretaria Ejecutiva de ABINIA, Caracas)
2. El periodismo colombiano antes de 1900: colecciones, microfilmaciones y digitalizaciones
   Colombian journalism before 1900: collections, microfilming and digitization
   JORGE ORLANDO MELO (Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Bogotá)
3. Yesterday's news tomorrow: preserving Mexican newspapers, 1807-1929
   Las Noticias de Ayer para el Mañana: la Preservación de los Periódicos Mexicanos, 1807-1929
   ADÁN BENAVIDES ( Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas, USA)

20th Business meeting of the IFLA Newspapers Section, Shanghai Library, China 2004

• Papers Presented

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2003:
69th IFLA General Conference, Berlin, Germany

Theme: Newspapers and Copyright Developments: Future Access and Preservation

1. Newspaper copyright developments: a European Union and United Kingdom perspective
   Les implications du copyright de la presse quotidienne : Un éclairage de l'Union Européenne et du Royaume Uni
   CHARLES OPPENHEIM (Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK)
2. What has copyright got to do with newspapers? - a South Africa perspective
   DENISE NICHOLSON (The Library, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)
3. The copyright situation in Germany
   GABRIELE BEGER

• Post Conference Meeting, Berlin, Germany, 9-11 August 2003
• Gérer la conservation des périodiques et de la presse/Managing the Preservation of periodicals and newspapers, 2000

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2002:
68th IFLA General Conference, Glasgow, Scotland

Theme: "Newspapers of the British Isles"

1. Partnerships in preservation: the experience of the Newsplan 2000 Project
   JOHN LAUDER (NEWSPLAN 2000 Project, The British Library, London, UK)
2. Scottish newspapers and Scottish national identity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
   Journaux et identité nationale en Ecosse aux 19e et 20e siècles
   IAN HUTCHISON (University of Stirling, Stirling, UK)
3. From Bristol Post Boy to the Twin Towers. Local news papers in England
   ELIZABETH MELROSE (North Yorkshire County Library, Northallerton, UK)
4. Print, language and identity: newspapers in Wales since 1804
   ALED JONES (University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK)

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2001:
67th IFLA General Conference, Boston, USA

Theme: "The Newspaper in the Americas"

1. Brazilian history through journalism
   L'Histoire du Brésil à travers le journalisme
   CELIA ZAHER (Technical Director, National Library of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
   MARIA ANGELICA VARELLA (Periodicals Division, National Library of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2. News from El Dorado: newspapers of the California gold rush
   GARY KURUTZ (Director of Special Collections, California State Library, Sacramento, USA)
3. Mesplet to Metadata: Canadian newspaper preservation and access
   SANDRA BURROWS (Newspaper Specialist, Reference and Information Services, National Library of Canada, Ottawa, Canada)
4. The Future of News
   ERIC NEWTON (Founding Managing Editor, The Newseum, President, Whole Story Associates, Annadale, USA)

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2000:
66th IFLA General Conference, Jerusalem, Israel

Theme: "Digitization of Newspapers"

1. RON ZWEIG (University of Tel Aviv)
2. YOSSI BARDOSH (Yedioth Technologies)
3. GRAHAM JEFCOATE (British Library)
4. MARK HOLLAND (Gale Group Reading)

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1999:
65th IFLA General Conference, Bangkok, Thailand

Theme: "South-East Asian Newspapers"

1. Southeast Asia Newspaper Collecting in the United States
   ALLEN RIEDY (Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA)
2. Current Southeast Asian newspapers: an overview
   AMELIA MCKENZIE and PAUL LIVINGSTON (National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia)
3. A window on to the world: newspaper collecting in the National Library of Australia
   AMELIA MCKENZIE (National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia)
4. Thai newspapers

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1998:
64th IFLA General Conference, Amsterdan, Netherlands

Theme: "Newspapers in Eastern Europe"

1. New Russian-language newspapers in Berlin
   WALTER ANDREESEN (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany)
2. Estonian newspapers past and present
   LEIE JUHA (National Library of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia)
3. Hungarian Press in the Last Ten Years - Overview 1987/97
   ELIZABETH GAZDAG and ANIKÓ NAGY (Széchényi Országos Könyvtar, Budapest, Hungary)
4. Russian newspapers past and present
   speaker from Regional Library of Ajazan, Russian Federation)

Workshop - Theme: "The Use of the Internet to Access Government Information and Information about Governments"
(Government Information and Official Publications joint with Newspapers)

1. Web sites of governments, parliaments, and international organizations
   HELEN M. SHEEHY (Pattee Library, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA)
2. Newspapers and periodicals on the Internet as sources of information about government activities: major Western sites, Eastern European sites, electronic versions of official gazettes
   GEOFF SMITH (Modern Collections, British Library, London, UK)

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1997:
63rd IFLA General Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark

Theme: "Early Newspapers" (Rare Books and Manuscripts joint with Newspapers)

1. Early newspapers and their forerunners in Central Europe
   EVA BLIEMSACH and HARTMUT WALRAVENS (Afteilung üterregionale bibliographische Dienste, Statsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preussicher Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Germany)
2. News and modernization: newspaper structure and developments in the earliest stages of the Scandinavian press
   JETTE D. SOLLINGE (Copenhagen, Denmark)
3. Des feuilles volantes aux périodiques: la presse en France au 17ème siècle
   PIERRE ALBERT (Institut Française de Presse, Université de Paris II, Paris, France)
4. Newsletters and newspapers: the circulation of news in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries
   HENRY SNYDER (University of California at Riverside, Riverside, California, USA)

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1996:
62nd IFLA General Conference, Beijing, China

Theme: "Asian Newspapers"

1. Access to the past of a nation of immigrants: Asian language newspapers in the United States
   KUEI CHIU (Asian Studies, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, California, USA)
2. Chinese and American newspapers and periodicals in the United States
   YAN MA (School of Library and Information Science, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA)
3. Geman influence on the press in China
   HARMUT WALRAVENS (Berlin State Library, Berlin, Germany)
4. The newspaper collections of the National Library of China: their use and prospects
   YU SHUJIE (Serials Department, National Library of China, Beijing, China)

Workshop - Theme: "Microfilming or Digitization for Preservation of Newspapers and other Material"
(Newspapers joint with Conservation)

1. Preservation microfilming of newspapers
   ELSE DELAUNAY (Departament des Periodiques, Bibliothèque National de France, Paris, France)
2. Preservation digitizing of newspapers
   ALAN HOWELL (State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)
3. Newspaper microfilming in Japan
   AKIO YASUE (National Diet Library, Tokyo, Japan)

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1995:
61st IFLA General Conference, Istanbul, Turkey

Theme: "Providing Access to Collections and Services in a Time of Change"
(Serial Publications joint with Document Delivery and Interlending, Newspapers and the UAP Core Programme)

1. Electronic journals: delivery, use, and access
   FYTTON ROWLAND (Department of Information and Library Studies, Loughborough University of Technology. Loughborough, UK)
2. Access to newspaper collections and content in a time of change
   GEOFF SMITH (British Library Newspaper Library, London, UK)
3. The changing role of document delivery and interlending in libraries
   UNA M. GOURLAY (Document Delivery and Fee-Based Services, Rice University Library, Houston, Texas, USA) and PENTTI VATTULAINEN (National Repository Library, Kuopio, Finland)

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1994:
60th IFLA General Conference, Havana, Cuba

(Newspapers Round Table joint with Serial Publication Section)

1. Periódicos Cubanos: Adquisición, Conservación y Acceso
   Morales Martínez Teresita and Franco Hevia Kenia (Biblioteca Nacional "José Martí", Havana, Cuba)
2. Newspaper cataloguing in Germany
   Walravens, Hartmut (Berlin State Library, Germany)
3. Colección, conservación y difusión de periódicos de la Biblioteca Nacional de Chile
   Schadlich Ursula (Biblioteca Nacional de Chile, Santiago, Chile)

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