From: Susan Rabe <rabe_at_crlmail.uchicago.edu>
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
Symposium on Access to and Preservation of Global Newspapers
May 27-28, 1997, Washington, DC
Researchers rely on newspapers for contemporary reportage, analysis, and
commentary on worldwide news events and issues. Bibliographers and
librarians trying to provide access to current and retrospective holdings
of newspaper files regularly experience the problems of purchasing,
collecting, storing, preserving, and cataloging newspapers. These tasks
become more complicated in areas of the world where political or economic
factors impact newspaper availability -- ironically, the areas of the world
of great interest to scholars and policy-makers.
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Center for Research
Libraries (CRL), and the Library of Congress (LC) are involved in
cooperative programs to expand and ensure access to research materials
published outside of the United States. These three institutions,
concerned about the closing door of access to foreign newspapers, are
sponsoring a symposium to define the problems of collecting, storing,
preserving, and providing access to international newspapers and, most
importantly, to design a course of action that will guarantee acquisition
of and access to international newspapers.
Purpose of the symposium
Goals of the symposium
1. To describe the problems of collecting, storing, preserving, and
providing access to international newspapers and to articulate the
importance to research of aggressive actions to solve these problems.
2. To achieve a consensus on the importance of newspapers and to marshal
support for an action agenda to strengthen newspaper collections in North
American libraries.
3. To provide a forum for exchange of ideas about diverse aspects of
newspapers and differing or common perspectives on problems and solutions
and to use this forum for the development of an action plan that outlines
solutions.
Objectives
1. To inform and educate academic and library decision-makers about the
importance of newspapers and to persuade them to allocate resources to
solve some of the access problems.
2. To clarify and communicate decision-making processes about newspapers
preservation. To ensure the inclusion of archiving and preserving of
electronic formats in preservation plans.
3. To evaluate current levels of coverage in newspaper collections. To
evaluate the mechanisms by which we disseminate information about holdings
and preservation decisions.
4. To develop an action agenda that describes how the North American
research library community can work toward comprehensive collection
coverage, ensure adequate preservation programs, guarantee the availability
of retrospective files through archiving and maintenance of library
collections. This should be a model of a program for coordinated
acquisitions and access.
Plan for meetings
The symposium begins at 1:00 PM (EDT) on Tuesday, May 27, and concludes at
5:00 pm (EDT) on Wednesday, May 28, 1997. Meetings will be held at the
Library of Congress. There are eight plenary sessions and two small group
sessions. The session topics are these:
1. Keynote address on the importance of newspapers for research and a
summary of what needs to be done to ensure access to this material
2. Scholarly Uses of Newspapers - panel of scholars
3. Newspaper Publishing and Micropublishing - panel of publisher,
commercial micropublisher, commercial micropublisher
4. Newspapers and Electronics
5. Newspaper Collections: Strengths and Gaps in Coverage relating to
geographic areas - panel of area studies specialists or representatives
from regional consortium efforts
6. Newspaper Collections: Strengths and Gaps in Bibliographic and Physical
Access
7. Newspaper Collections: The Preservation Conundrum
8. Geographic topics for small group discussion
9. Processes and functional topics for small group discussion
10. Summary of problems, conclusions of small group discussions,
articulation of solutions: setting the work agenda
Audience
The symposium should interest directors and collection development
librarians from ARL libraries; area studies bibliographers and specialists;
delegates from Title VI centers; newspaper publishers working in print and
electronic formats; commercial and not-for-profit micropublishers;
cooperative professional societies; researchers, governmental policy makers
and other end users; organizations interested in research collections.
Symposium Planning Group:
Dan Hazen, Harvard University
Deborah Jakubs, Duke University and the Association of Research Libraries
Judy McDermott, Library of Congress
William Schenck, Library of Congress
Linda Naru, Center for Research Libraries
Susan Rabe, Center for Research Libraries
Marlys Rudeen, Center for Research Libraries
Don Simpson, Center for Research Libraries
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
The symposium begins at 1:00 PM (EDT) on Tuesday, May 27, and concludes at
5:00 pm (EDT) on Wednesday, May 28, 1997. The meetings are at the Library
of Congress.
Conference registration is US$150.00, which includes conference materials,
coffee breaks, and lunch.
Attendance is limited to 100 registrants.
Register by April 26, 1997, by completing the form below and returning it
to CRL:
Linda Naru
Director of Member Services
The Center for Research Libraries
6050 South Kenwood Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60637-2804
Voice: 773-955-4545 x318
Fax: 773-955-4339
Internet: naru_at_crlmail.uchicago.edu
Send payment -- check or bank draft payable to The Center for Research
Libraries (FEIN 36-216-7788) by May 1, 1997.
HOTEL INFORMATION
The conference hotel is the Capitol Hill Suites, 200 C Street, SE,
Washington, DC 20003; 1-800-424-9165 or 1-202-543-6000.
Rates are $99.00 single/double occupancy, plus applicable taxes.
Check in time: 3:00 PM. Check out time: 12:00 PM
Reservations must be made by April 26, 1997, to receive the group rate.
Reservations received after April 26 are on a first available basis (Normal
rates are $129.00-$159.00).
When registering, ask for the "ARL Room Block."
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Registration for Symposium on Access to and Preservation of Global
Newspapers, May 27-28, 1997, Washington, DC
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complete and return to:
Linda Naru
Director of Member Services
The Center for Research Libraries
6050 South Kenwood Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60637-2804
Voice: 773-955-4545 x318
Fax: 773-955-4339
Internet: naru_at_crlmail.uchicago.edu
Please send the registration fee US$150.00 (check or bank draft payable to
The Center for Research Libraries (FEIN 36-216-7788)) by May 1, 1997.
Susan M. Rabe
Collection Resources Bibliographer
Center for Research Libraries
6050 S. Kenwood Ave.
Chicago, IL 60637-2804
Tel: 773-955-4545 x323
Fax: 773-955-4339
Email: rabe_at_crlmail.uchicago.edu
Received on Tue Mar 18 1997 - 16:48:02 EST