[AISWorld] Last Chance to Register for the IFLA Newspapers and Genealogy Satellite Meeting Aug 14-15 Singapore

[Frederick Zarndt]

Greetings,

The early bird rate to register for the IFLA Newspapers/Genealogy and Local History (GENLOC) sections Satellite Meeting ends at 11.59pm Monday July 15 Singapore time.  Register now to save SGD $32!

The satellite meeting will be held August 14-15 2013 at the National Library Building, 100 Victoria Street, Singapore.  The 2-day event is jointly organised by the Singapore National Library Board,  the IFLA Newspapers Section,  and the IFLA Genealogy and Local History Section. 

We warmly invite you to support this event and join your fellow professionals from the library services and information industry from all over the world.  The programme is found below and more details about the meeting, registration, and travel to Singapore can be found at  http://ifla2013satellite.nlb.sg/newspaper-genloc/programme/

See you in Singapore!

Best wishes,
The Satellite Meeting Organizing Committee
Mazelan Anuar, Jessie Yak, Cally Law, Elizabeth Melrose, Mona Løkås

Best regards,
Frederick

Frederick Zarndt
Chair, IFLA Newspapers Section

Tel. +1.801.361.3204
Fax +1.888.723.3204
Skype frederickzarndt


 	
14 August 2013 Day 1 @ POSSIBILITY ROOM

8:00 – 9:00 AM	
Registration Coffee & Tea L5 Courtyard

9:00 – 9:40 AM	
Opening Address


Standing Committee – Mr Gene Tan and/or Frederick Zarndt
Keynote Speaker	Mr Felix Soh  
Digital Media Editor, English/Malay Newspaper Division and Consulting Editor, My Paper from Singapore Press Holding
9.40 – 10:35 AM	Digital collections: if you build them, will they visit – or – marketing digital newspaper collections	
Zarndt, Frederick et al

Chair, IFLA Newspapers Section

Newspaper preservation: a case study of Botswana.s Legal Repositories	
Thabakgolo, Mogogi

 Jorosi, Boemo N

 

Case studies in the digitisation and preservation of cultural heritage	
Krishnan, Dr. Gauri

Centre Director, Indian Heritage Centre, National Heritage Board, Singapore

10:35 – 10:50 AM	
Tea break

10.50 AM – 12 PM	In search of people memory: News papers of National Library of Indonesia	Alfida
Studying for Doctorate in Manuscripts Studies in Indonesia
The Campus newspaper – from newspaper to digital archive, the Libraries’ role and responsibilities	Cheney, Debora
Head, Library Services to World campus/PSU Online & Larry and Ellen Foster Communications Librarian, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Human traces: how digitising newspapers is transforming family history	
Fleming, Patrick

Head of Operations and Services, British Library, London

Practical aspects of German historical culture – the role of volunteer work and the Libraries	
Hagenah, Ulrich MA

Head, Hamburg State & University Library, Hamburg, Germany

12 – 12:10 PM	
Sponsor presentation

12:10 – 12:50 PM	
Lunch @ National Library Singapore (NLS)

12:50 –1:50 PM	
 Travel to Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) Print Centre

2:00 – 3:00 PM	
SPH Print Centre site visit

3:00 – 3:30 PM	
Tea Break @ SPH Print Centre

3:30 – 4:40PM	New approaches for indexing with digitised historical newspapers	Allen, Robert B, PhD
Laying the groundwork for newspaper preservation through collaboration and communication: the Texas Digital Newspaper Program	
Krahmer, Ana

Co-ordinator, Digital Newspapers Program, UNT Libraries, University of North Texas USA

Phillips, Mark

Assistant Dean for Digital Libraries, UNT Libraries, University of North Texas USA

Chronicles in Preservation: preserving digital news and newspapers	
Skinner, Katherine

Matt Schultz

Krabbenhoeft, Nick

Educopia Institute

Zarndt, Frederick

Chair, IFLA Newspapers Section

Europeana newspapers – the Gateway to European Newspapers online	
Wilms, Lotte

Project Leader

Neudecker, Clemens

Technical Project Manager

 

Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands

5:00 – 5:45 PM	
Bus back to NLS

6.30 – 8.30 PM	
Dinner (venue tbc)

      

End of Day 1

                                                                                                            

 
 	
15 August 2013 Day 2 @ THE POD

8:30 – 9:00 AM	
Coffee & Tea

9:00 – 9:30 AM	
Keynote Speaker

Todd Jensen, Sr. Director, Document Preservation at Ancestry.com

9:30 – 10.40AM	Preservation and access of digitally deposited newspapers	
Kaukonen, Minna  

Senior Planning Officer /Deputy Director

Hosio, Matti

Project Manager,

Centre for Preservation & Digitisation, National Library of Finland

Digitisation of historic newspapers and voluntary digital deposit of newspaper pre-print files in National Library of Estonia	Kiisa, Krista

Digitisation Co-ordinator, National Library of Estonia

Yes please both: large-scale digitalisation and legal deposit of newspapers in Norway	
Lokas, Mona

Head of Periodical Section

Brygfjeld, Svein Arne

Head of Digital Library Development

National Library of Norway

Making sense of it all: combining digitized analogue collections with e-legal deposit and harvested web sites	
Nilsson, Par

Senior Librarian, National Library of Sweden

10.40 – 11:20 AM	
Roots Revealed exhibition (Guided tour) @ NLS

11:20 AM –  12:30PM	
Lunch @ NLS

12:30 – 1PM	
Travel to Malay Heritage Centre (MHC)

1:00 – 2.00 PM	Content analysis of high circulation Persian Newspapers published in Iran from 2009 to 2012 Popularization of science	
Abazari, Zahra

Associate Professor LIS, Islamic Azad University, Tehran

Allaee, Moneereh

MA, LIS

Using newspapers reports to glean insight into current affairs. A case study: The Singapore Parliamentary and Presidential elections	
Anuar, Mazelan bin

Senior Librarian

Law, Cally

Project Manager

National Library Board, Singapore

Crowdsourcing the world’s cultural heritage: part II	
Zarndt, Frederick et al

Chair, IFLA Newspapers Section

2:00 – 2:10PM	
Sponsor presentation

2:10 – 2:40 PM	
Tea Break @ MHC

2:40 – 3:50 PM	Importance of newspapers for family research	Horowitz, Daniel

Chief Genealogist & Translation Manager (My Heritage)

Finding the ‘News you can use’	
Lynch, Russell

Collection Manager, FamilySearch, Intl, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

A taste of the past through Malayan newspapers: uncovering food histories through local newspapers	Tan, Bonny

Senior Reference Librarian,

National Library Board, Singapore

Bringing newspapers to the Gallery – a case study of employing newspapers within an exhibition context at the Malay Heritage Centre’s permanent galleries	
Zulkifli, Noorashikin

Head, Curator, Malay Heritage Centre,

National Heritage Board, Singapore

4:00 – 4.30 PM	
Closing ceremony

4:30 -5:30 PM	
Guided tour at MHC

5.30 – 6:30 PM	
 Cocktail Party @ Mamanda

 

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